ssht

SSH Helper Tool

ssht is a powerful tool for frequent SSH users. It provides a lighting-fast search of all hosts you can connect to. Extensible plugins automatically discover them across your network, virtualization platforms, the cloud, and more.

ssht is currently unstable, features and APIs are subject to change at any time.

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Features

• Host Status
  As you type, ssht will optionally collect host information like connectivity and ping, and show it along each search result, so you can quickly identify offline hosts.
• Fuzzy Search
  Can't spell? Type with your elbows? No problem. ssht uses fuzzy text searching to show you the best possible results even with spelling mistakes, missing, or duplicated letters.
• Fully Extensible
  Want to auto-discover your custom widgets across your network? Share a giant SQL database of hosts with your whole company? Integrate with your own SSH certificate authority? ssht has first-class support for custom discovery plugins, with a performant incremental-async API
• Dumb Fast
  Whether you've got a thousand or ten thousand hosts, ssht tears through huge search jobs using an efficient multithreaded search engine.
• Plug 'n Play
  Unless you need to setup access to cloud services, you probably don't need to configure anything. If you do, there's tons of options to play with. Just npm install and go.

Sources

ssht can detect hosts from a variety of sources. It comes with the following builtin plugins:

• SSH Config
• Docker

SSH Config

This plugin reads your ~/.ssh/config file.

It has full support for even the most advanced config files, with recursive parsing of Include directives, Bash-4.2 compatible globbing with globstar, and more.

This plugin uses optional multithreaded computational parsing to quickly resolves all of the globbed patterns (eg. Host *.example.org) and allow searching by the actual parameters, even in complex configuration files.

Docker

If you have Docker running on your local machine, ssht will instantly discover all running containers that support SSH.

If the Docker container is inaccessible, ssht will analyze the network and automagically configure SSH's ProxyCommand option to properly route the connection to the container.