🕳️ sockv5er

a tool to create ssh tunnels on demand using the free tier ec2 instances from AWS from any given region

What does it do:

Creates a security group with port 22 open to the public ip of the user
Creates a private key which will be used to connect to the ec2 instance
Creates an ec2 instance which will shut down in 20 minutes if nothing is done.
Connects to the ec2 instance and starts a socksv5 proxy using ssh tunnel
Once you add the proxy settings for 127.0.01:1337 all your browser traffic will be encrypted and transferred through the tunnel between your system and the ec2 instance.
Cleans up the ec2 instance after usage.
Subsequent runs of this app will give you option to clean up any existing resources created by this app.

ACCESS_KEY_ID="" # AWS Access key ID
SECRET_KEY="" # AWS Access key
SOCKS_V5_PORT=1337 # A free port on your system.

Execute sockv5er to start the socksv5 server
Add a socksv5 proxy in your browser with the address 127.0.0.1 and port you have as the value for SOCKS_V5_PORT
Press CTRL + C to exit.
To clean up all the resources, execute sockv5er again and press Y

Creates an EC2 instance in the free tier and starts an SSH tunnel which can be used as socksv5 proxy
Terminates the created EC2 instances in 20 minutes after it starts up in case the app crashes
Tracks the resources the app creates so that it can be deleted in the subsequent run

Fix the existing test cases and add more coverage
Postpone the shutdown of the EC2 instance as long as the ssh tunnel is active
Handle the exit from the SSH tunnel in a graceful way
Make the readme.md a bit more elaborate
Add better log messages and print statements
Implement functional options. Ref: https://dave.cheney.net/2014/10/17/functional-options-for-friendly-apis

All contrbutions are welcome. So raise away your PRs. Here's the contributer guidelines.