automate SSH configs with python

I use sshconfigs a lot. It's always good to connect a custom configured ssh connection with just "ssh host_name".

recently, I released a command line utility to handle ssh configs. It does not bring magical stuff compared to vim ~/.ssh/config. But I just like this way more, and commands like list/search would be pretty useful if you have a lot of servers in your ssh config.

after the release, a lot of people asked to use it as a library instead of a command-line tool. So, here it is, a little documentation about how to use storm as a python library (luckily, it was decoupled enough to use it like this.)

installation

pip install stormssh
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initialization:


from storm import ssh_config

sconfig = ssh_config.ConfigParser("/home/emrebey/.ssh/config")
sconfig.load()

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get the raw config

output:


[{
        'host': 'vps',
        'type': 'entry',
        'options': {
            'hostname': 'emreyilmaz.me',
            'user': 'root',
            'port': '22'
        },
        'order': 1
    }, {
        'host': 'netscaler',
        'type': 'entry',
        'options': {
            'hostname': 'netscaler.com',
            'user': 'root',
            'port': '22'
        },
        'order': 2
    }
]

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add a host to config

sconfig.add_host('name', {
    'user': 'user',
    'hostname': 'hostname.com',
    'port': 2400,
})

sconfig.writetossh_config() # save it to the config
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modify a host


sconfig.update_host('name', {
    'user': 'root',
    'hostname': 'root.com',
    'port': 22,
})

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deleting a single host by name

from storm.exceptions import StormValueError
try:
    sconfig.delete_host('name')
except StormValueError:
    pass
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delete all hosts

sconfig.deleteallhosts()
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searching hosts

print sconfig.search_host('vps')
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output: 

[{
        'host': 'vps',
        'type': 'entry',
        'options': {
            'hostname': 'emreyilmaz.me',
            'user': 'emre',
            'port': '22'
        },
        'order': 1
    }, {
        'host': 'vps_backup',
        'type': 'entry',
        'options': {
            'hostname': 'emreyilmaz.me',
            'user': 'root',
            'port': '24'
        },
        'order': 2
    }
]
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browse ssh_config.py for more.