torpedo

Connect to databases in private VPCs the easy way - no VPN required

How it works

On first run, torpedo will create an ECS cluster (this does not cost anything). From there, any time you want to connect to a database torpedo will generate random SSH keys, spin up a temporary container that has access to your database, and forward a local port through it. Then you can connect to the database on localhost as though it were running locally. The container will be destroyed once you're done with your session.

Usage

Make sure you have a default AWS profile set or manually set one with AWS_PROFILE=xxx torpedo

$ torpedo
🚀 torpedo is ready

connect to port 5432 on localhost
it's forwarded to main-1.cz73excokyft.us-east-2.rds.amazonaws.com:5432

press ctrl+c to exit

Help

NAME:
   torpedo - A tool to access AWS resources behind a VPC

USAGE:
   torpedo [global options] command [command options] [arguments...]

COMMANDS:
   client, c  Run the client command
   server, s  Run the server command
   help, h    Shows a list of commands or help for one command

GLOBAL OPTIONS:
   --verbose   (default: false)
   --help, -h  show help

Acknowledgements

This wasn't my idea! There is a much more fleshed out product called 7777 here: https://port7777.com/ by Matthieu Napoli and Marco Aurélio Deleu. torpedo works in a similar way but was rewritten in Go for faster bootup speeds and made open source for community contribution.