pretty

Parallel remote execution tty - (Yet another parallel ssh/shell)

Installation:

go get -u github.com/ncode/pretty

Config:

By default it lives in ~/.pretty.yaml

username: ncode
history_file: ~/.pretty.history
ssh_private_key: ~/.ssh/id_rsa
groups:
    hosts:
        - host1
        - host2
        - host3
        - host4

Usage:

Parallel remote execution tty - (Yet another parallel ssh/shell)

usage:
	pretty <host1> <host2> <host3>...

Usage:
  pretty [flags]

Flags:
      --config string      config file (default is $HOME/.pretty.yaml)
  -h, --help               help for pretty
  -G, --hostGroup string   group of hosts to be loaded from the config file
  -H, --hostsFile string   hosts file to be used instead of the args via stdout (one host per line)

Connecting to hosts:

pretty host1 host2 host3 host4
pretty(2)>>
Error connection to host host3: Failed to dial: dial tcp: lookup host3: no such host
Error connection to host host4: Failed to dial: dial tcp: lookup host4: no such host

Connecting to hostGroups:

pretty -G hosts
pretty(2)>>
Error connection to host host3: Failed to dial: dial tcp: lookup host3: no such host
Error connection to host host4: Failed to dial: dial tcp: lookup host4: no such host

Connecting to hostsFile:

pretty -H /tmp/hosts.txt
pretty(2)>>
Error connection to host host3: Failed to dial: dial tcp: lookup host3: no such host
Error connection to host host4: Failed to dial: dial tcp: lookup host4: no such host

List connection status:

pretty(2)>> :status
Connected hosts (2)
Failed hosts (2)

List hosts:

pretty(2)>> :list
host1: Connected(true)
host2: Connected(true)
host3: Connected(false)
host4: Connected(false)

Running commands:

pretty(2)>> whoami
host1: ncode
host2: ncode

Why do I need it?

pretty is a tool to control interactive shells across multiple hosts from a single point.

Motivation

After using polysh for a long time. It came with the motivation to try to write my own parallel shell in GO. In the end the tool worked so well and I decided to open source the code.

TODO:

Forward Control+C and Control+Z requests to the destination terminal Support for encrypted ssh keys