Gnome Shell Aws Ec2 extension

An extension to list a set of active ec2 instances in an AWS account and to easily connect to and terminate those instances from the shell.

The aws cli is used to retrieve a (filtered) list of active ec2 instances. Guake (or gnome-terminal) is used to connect to those instances. For termination the aws-cli is used to send a terminate-instance request

Prerequisites

AWS CLI

This extension depends on a working installation of the AWS CLI tools.

Distro packages :

• Arch

To check if the tools are installed correctly run 'aws ec2 describe-instances' from a terminal. It should list all known instances in the configured account. Add -P profile_name if multiple profiles are configured.

Guake

The extensions defaults to guake as the preferred shell with fallback to gnome-terminal.

Configuration

• Aws Cli profile : If configured this profile is used for the aws cli tools
• SSH Username : The username to use.
• SSH Key : not implemented yet
• AWS Tag Filter Value : If provided this tag value wil be used as filter to the describe-instance request
• Bastion Host : If provided this host wil be used to connect to the ec2 instance (using ssh ProxyCommand and the target instance private ip.)

Known issues

• The AWS Tag Filter Value cannot be left empty. If no filter is to be used '*' should be provided.
• SSH Key usage is not implemented yet. Public key authentication only works with the default key.

Changelog

0.12

• Implement custom identiy file usage (#2)

0.11

• Update for Gnome 3.26
• Async call to awssdk
• Add search filter to menu

0.10

• Add option to disable StrictHostKeyChecking

0.9

• Update for Gnome 3.22

0.6

• Update for Gnome 3.20

0.5

• Fixed connecting without bastion host
• [Guake] Fixed tab naming on new connection

0.4

• Refresh settings on refresh instance list.
• Show error if aws cli failed

0.3

• Fix terminate instance bug.
• Implement refresh action

0.2

• Add Option to connect through a bastion host with ProxyCommand