ec2.cli

ec2.cli is a simple & fast alternative command line utiltity for communicating with AWS EC2 machines. The goal is to provide the ability to gain SSH access quickly without any prior knowledge of the target machine. The cli has been designed to provide a tab completion interface for speed and ease.

installation

• Download the latest executable from the releases page for your operating system
• Extract the executable tar -xzf ec2.cli-*.tar.gz
• Execute ec2.cli setup (mandatory for tab completion)
• Open a new tab or source source ~/.bashrc and/or source ~/.zshrc

configuration

The following items might need changing depending on your environment.

mandatory

• recommended - ec2.cli set awsAccessKey KEY & ec2.cli set awsSecretKey KEY
• If you use ~/.aws/credentials, execute ec2.cli set awsProfile PROFILE to set the name of the profile, or
• AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY environment variables are used by default

optional

• ec2.cli set cert FILELOC define where to find your SSH private file
• ec2.cli set user USERNAME if you use a different username on your EC2 machines than the current user
• ec2.cli set region AWSREGION if your machines are not located in eu-west-1

environment

• Base directory: ~/.ec2.cli
• Executable location: ~/.ec2.cli/ec2.cli
• Cache location: ~/.ec2.cli/cache
• Config location: ~/.ec2.cli/config

uninstalling

• Remove ~/.ec2.cli
• Remove the hand full of lines that was appended to ~/.bashrc and/or ~/.zshrc