HCLOUD LOCAL SSH CONFIG

The tools helps to generate a local ssh config file based on your hetzner cloud server projects.

It's able perform multiple projects and and set default and custom server configuration per project.

The result configuration content is attached or replaced to a existing config file. It is using generated markers to identify the generated content for a later replacement.

Install

Build the tool.

make

Configure the projects by setting up the config.json

cp config.json.example config.json

Set the projects with name and token in config.json

Usage

./hcloud-local-ssh-config --help
Usage of ./hcloud-local-ssh-config:
-config-file string
        configuration file (default "config.json")
-marker string
        hcloud replacement marker (default "HCLOUD-REPLACE")
-printonly
        don't write to file print out only
-ssh-config-file string
        ssh configuration file (default "~/.ssh/config")

Result content

The tool adds or replace all servers as host entries in your ssh config file. It uses the public IPv4 as hostname.

Example output:

...

##START HCLOUD-REPLACE ##

Host srv-acme-prod-01
    User root
    HostName 10.0.0.1

Host srv-acme-prod-02
    User ubuntu
    HostName 10.0.0.2
    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/custom_rsa

##END HCLOUD-REPLACE ##

...

License

MIT - Stefan Berger