Show HN: Kitten – Tiny multi-server automation tool

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Great project!

Maybe the project description/post title could be more specific about it being an AWS tool.

An infrastructure tool that starts with a k, but doesn't use kubernetes is a rare sight.

This is a neat project!

I also saw this posted a couple of weeks ago and it has become a go to tool for a lot of AWS work: http://awless.io/

I'm confused. How does `kitten` know what ssh key to use to run a remote command?

Can you use `kitten` to get a list of known ec2 hosts?

Why would I want to use `kitten` instead of the standard aws cli tools?

Key discovery is similar to tools such as ssh (i.e. SSH agent, ~/.ssh/id_rsa, etc.), and can be specified with -i if necessary.

Haven't added any way to get all hosts. If it's a reasonably common use case will do.

You can use awscli to retrieve IPs if you prefer. Kitten just makes it all short and straightforward without having to worry about things such as pagination and the inconsistent AWS result format. It also allows you to easily work on a set of IPs with minimum friction. Not trying to replace Ansible, it's more of a simple tool for quick multi-host touches.

Awesome!

I once built something similar using shell scripts and tmux, but it was pretty janky. This looks like a much better version of that.

This is very handy, already started using, thanks!

this looks very useful ..and very forkable

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