Show HN: I built a simple, open-source tool to manage servers and SSH keys
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Re: Show HN: I built a simple, open-source tool to manage servers and SSH keys
#2From the outside looking in, it's not at all clear what the tool is trying to solve.
What exactly is made "easier"..? What does it do that ssh doesn't? Who is this for?
Many questions...
Re: Show HN: I built a simple, open-source tool to manage servers and SSH keys
#3So, congratulations on releasing your project but I'm not sure what problem are you trying to solve.
Please add some use-cases to make it clear where exactly does it come in, because once I add a key in my ssh config, I'm pretty much there. For more complicated tasks I use ansible.
Re: Show HN: I built a simple, open-source tool to manage servers and SSH keys
#4From the outside looking in, it's not at all clear what the tool is trying to solve. What exactly is made "easier"..? What does it do that ssh doesn't? Who is this for? Many questions...
If you're managing a ton of servers manually, this makes a lot of sense.
Re: Show HN: I built a simple, open-source tool to manage servers and SSH keys
#5From the outside looking in, it's not at all clear what the tool is trying to solve. What exactly is made "easier"..? What does it do that ssh doesn't? Who is this for? Many questions...
If you're managing a ton of servers manually, this makes a lot of sense.
If you’re managing a ton of servers you are already using ansible or packer or salt or something.
Re: Show HN: I built a simple, open-source tool to manage servers and SSH keys
#6From the outside looking in, it's not at all clear what the tool is trying to solve. What exactly is made "easier"..? What does it do that ssh doesn't? Who is this for? Many questions...
If you're managing a ton of servers manually, this makes a lot of sense.
~/.ssh/config is perfectly fine for that.
Re: Show HN: I built a simple, open-source tool to manage servers and SSH keys
#7how does this compare to cassh
Re: Show HN: I built a simple, open-source tool to manage servers and SSH keys
#8From the outside looking in, it's not at all clear what the tool is trying to solve. What exactly is made "easier"..? What does it do that ssh doesn't? Who is this for? Many questions...
Three things I can see. Yes, I know these are achieved by using .ssh/config etc, I am just answering as a public service.
1. It links up addresses to host names so that you don’t have to remember ip addresses of servers. 2. It makes it easy to create keys and attach those keys to particular hosts, so reduces the effort required to separate keys depending on your host 3. It makes key rotation fairly easy 4. It replaces the ssh command syntax with a k8s or docker-like syntax for executing remote commands or entering a shell. So I suppose you don’t need to context switch?
Re: Show HN: I built a simple, open-source tool to manage servers and SSH keys
#9assh is another project to consider, altough I falled back to just regular SSH config files and imports.
Re: Show HN: I built a simple, open-source tool to manage servers and SSH keys
#10From the outside looking in, it's not at all clear what the tool is trying to solve. What exactly is made "easier"..? What does it do that ssh doesn't? Who is this for? Many questions...
Three things I can see. Yes, I know these are achieved by using .ssh/config etc, I am just answering as a public service. 1. It links up addresses to host names so that you don’t have to remember ip addresses of servers. 2. It makes it easy to create keys and attach those keys to particular hosts, so reduces the effort required to separate keys depending on your host 3. It makes key rotation fairly easy 4. It replace…
> It links up addresses to host names so that you don’t have to remember ip addresses of servers.
Um.