Ansishell

A small tool to quickly ssh into an ansible host group

Dependencies

• Ansible 2.2
• Python 3
• pyyaml
• jinja2

INI file

create an .ansishell file in your home directory:

[inventory]
; "default" is required
default=/home/foobar/myproject/dev_inventory
dev=/home/foobar/myproject/dev_inventory
production=/home/foobar/myproject/production_inventory

[config]
; the command to open multiple shells. Needs to support syntax "$command $host1 $host2 ..."
command=mssh

Installation

Add the bin dir or symlink the executable somewhere in your $PATH

Bash completion

If you want bash completion, source the bashcompletion.sh or bashcompletion.zsh.sh

Usage

For default environment, you can just use the group name as a parameter:

ansishell web

For a specific environment, use it the first parameter:

ansishell dev web

Unsure which groups are configured? Use group listing of an environment:

ansishell dev -l

Need a list of environments?

ansishell -e