Forked from gposton/ec2-clusterssh -- uses i2cssh instead of csshX on macos

Use instance tags to launch a ClusterSSH session to multiple EC2 instances.

$ gem install ec2-i2cssh

Note: Mac users with the latest version of XCode may run into a compilation error installing the json gem dependency. If you see the following error during the gem installation, see this page for a workaround

clang: error: unknown argument: '-multiply_definedsuppress' [-Wunused-command-line-argument-hard-error-in-future]

• ClusterSSH (To install csshx on mac use this page)
• Set up your AWS credentials (note that these values can be also passed in as command line options)

export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID='...'

export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY='...'

$ec2-i2cssh -h
Usage: ec2-i2cssh [-t TAGS] [-l USER] [-k KEY -s SECRET] [-r region]
    -l, --login [USER]               Log in with this user
    -t, --tags [TAGS]                a 'space' sparated key value pair of tags and values (i.e. -t 'role=web,database environment=dev')
    -r, --region [REGION]            AWS region
    -s, --screen [SCREEN]            What screen to use for clustering windows (form multiple displays)
    -p, --use-public-ip              Use public IP (default false)


$ec2-i2cssh -t Name=web,database                  #Connects to all web and database servers
$ec2-i2cssh -t 'role=web,database environment=dev'  #Connects to all web and database servers in the dev environment

If you use a bastion jumphost, you'll want to configure your ssh config file to route the relavant IP ranges through your bastion. (i.e. 192.168.*)

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request