ssh Archives

Developer Tools

SSH Keys on macOS, Part 2: Building a Key System

Creating and using lots of SSH keys can be really easy to manage with a simple key system. Following a few simple principles makes it work.

Developer Tools

SSH Keys on macOS, Part 1: Simple and Safe

We make handling SSH keys on macOS way more complicated than it has to be. Here's a simple, safe way to create and use them.

DevOps & System Admin.

Using Your SSH Keys in WSL in 2022

WSL is great but has one weakness — it doesn't know about your Windows SSH keys. Learn how to solve that problem with a few tools inside.

AWS

AWS Remote Database Management Without SSH

When it comes to AWS remote database management, if you can't install the agent directly on the private host, you can set up a bastion running the agent.

Developer Tools

Why Multiple SSH Keys Don’t Work with Git, and How to Make Them

SSH and Git work together to secure access to your remote repository but don't work particularly well with multiple keys. I have a solution for this.

DevOps & System Admin.

Ansible Communication with AWS EC2 Instances on a VPC

Using SSH options like ProxyCommand, Ansible can readily work with privately addressed EC2 instances on a AWS VPC subnet.

Developer Tools

Configuring a Laptop with Ansible, Part Two

An example of how I use Ansible config management to save and reproduce the environment on my laptop.

DevOps & System Admin.

Easier Capistrano Deploys from GitHub with ssh-agent

Far, far too often I forget to start the ssh-agent before I use Capistrano to deploy. Here's a quick little snippet to help you avoid that mistake.

Developer Tools

Simple Remote Pairing with wemux

wemux is a script that simplifies the management of shared tmux sessions.

DevOps & System Admin.

Remote mysqldump without Temp Files

A description of using pipes with ssh in a way that allows the results of mysqldump on a remote machine to be stored locally without creating a temporary file.