Manage large number of hosts by placing them and their addresses to text or JSON files. sshh is a command-line utility that allows finding the right hosts and opens an SSH connectio to them.

Features:

• Automatically detects if running under screen and opens multiple SSH connections in separate named windows, requires use of the -a switch.
• Uses the hostname (or FQDN) to connect if it resolves to the same IP address as specified in a host configuration file. If the address resolves differently, the IP specified in the configuration file is used.
• URLs are opened into the browser.

$HOME/.sshh/config.json:

{
    "files": [
        { "path": "{HOME}/git/some-hosting-env/nodes.json",
          "type": "json", "domain": "my.domain.com" },
        { "path": "hosting.txt" }
    ]
}

$HOME/.sshh/hosting.txt:

load-balancer xyz webui https://10.0.0.10
dc01 http proxy 10.2.0.1

$HOME/git/some-hosting-env/nodes.json:

{
  "nodes": [
    {"name": "http-server-a01", "ipv4": "10.0.1.1"},
    {"name": "http-server-b01", "ipv4": "10.0.1.1"},
    {"name": "db-server-a01", "ipv4": "10.0.2.1"}
    ]
}

• Show all hosts: sshh or sshh -q
• Open SSH connection to the DB server: sshh db-server
• Open SSH connections to all http servers: sshh -a http
• Open the load-balancer webui in browser: sshh load web (multiple match patterns)
• Just query, don't open any connections: sshh -q db

MIT, see LICENSE