wbailey / claws

Command line driven AWS console with capistrano integration

Command Line AWS (CLAWS)

This tool provides a simple and powerful way to interact with the hosts in your Amazon Web Services account via the command line.

It provides a configurable text based interface of the status of your hosts similar to the AWS web console. An example of its usage appears below:

It gives you a choice of which host to connect to and invokes the proper ssh command:

Installation

It is up on rubygems.org so add it to your bundle in the Gemfile

gem 'claws'

or do it the old fashioned way:

gem install claws

After you have the gem installed you will need to initialize it to install a configuation file:

claws --init

Read more about the configuration file in this wiki post

Usage

Once the initial configuration is completed you can simply run claws from the command line:

claws

The full list of options includes:

Usage: claws [options]
    -d, --display-only               Display host status only and exit
    -c, --choice N                   Enter the number of the host to automatically connect to
    -i, --init                       Install the default configuration file for the application
    -s, --source S                   define the AWS source - default is ec2
    -v, --version                    Display the version number and exit

To Do

• Add filtering by regular expression for any field

• Integrate with your projects Capistrano definitions so that one can filter by environment and roles.

• Add RDS and ELB support

License

Copyright (c) 2011-2014 Wes Bailey

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claws's Issues

Add Multiple Account Support

Undefined method error - please advise

C:\Users\pmjs>claws
undefined method inject' for #<String:0x248a078> C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/claws-1.2.0/lib/claws/report/ec2.rb:29:inb
lock in run': undefined method each' for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError) from C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/command_line_reporter-3.2.1/lib /command_line_reporter.rb:118:intable'
from C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/claws-1.2.0/lib/claws/report/ec
2.rb:16:in run' from C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/claws-1.2.0/lib/claws/command/e c2.rb:19:inexec'
from C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/claws-1.2.0/bin/claws:13:in <t op (required)>' from C:/Ruby193/bin/claws:23:inload'
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Issue with ID field in .claws.yml causing claws -d to return the object ID for the object and not the instance ID

When I run

claws -d

I get one of these error message per instance:

/home/jamie/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p302@jamie/gems/claws-1.1.0/lib/claws/report/ec2.rb:44: warning: Object#id will be deprecated; use Object#object_id

Looking at the claws output from run to run the value for ID changes and is not an EC2 instance ID, which is of the form i-12345678 but is instead a Ruby object ID. Editing .claws.yml and changing the id field from

id:
  title: ID
  width: 10

to

instance_id:
  title: ID
  width: 10

Fixes the problem.

The documentation for amazon-sdk indicates that the instance ID can be accessed via "#id" or "#instance_id".

Thanks,

Jamie

Feature request: use mosh as remote login

Ability to use mosh http://mosh.mit.edu/ instead of plain SSH for remote login, this would be a nice feature, I use mosh instead of plain SSH in most of my EC2 servers

Not showing instances in Sao Paulo datacenter

After installation, claws is not showing instances present in Sao Paulo datacenter. Not tested in other regions to check if it's only there.

Add Caching

Right now every time you run the tool it queries AWS to get the results. It might be wise to add a command line flag that indicates that it should cache the results locally. A corresponding flag value would invalidate the cache.