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Managing SSH Config

September 25, 2020

Why do I need this?

So you’d have an easy way of managing your SSH connections. 

# Instead of running
ssh joserizal@staging.api.com

# you can just run
ssh staging

Getting started

Add this to your ssh config file, default path is ~/.ssh/config

Configuration file

User andres.bonifacio

Host staging-api
  HostName staging.api.com

# wild card
Host production?
  HostName %h.api.com

Usage

ssh staging-api
ssh production9
# connects to andres.bonifacio@production9.api.com

References

More advance examples here

https://www.endpoint.com/blog/2011/01/07/ssh-config-wildcards-and-multiple

https://man.openbsd.org/ssh_config#TOKENS

Written by Julian Macmang