ssh shortcut for effective work loop (local machine git pull against remote server)

copy and pasted from a slack chat. Special shoutout to Anthony L. for the tip!

here’s a time saver i just drummed up that’s worthy of sharing. it will be of interest to you:

in your ~/.ssh/config put:

Host ec2-*
User ubuntu
IdentityFile /path/to/your/private_key.pem
RemoteForward 55555 localhost:22

Host ec2-*

User ubuntu

IdentityFile /path/to/your/private_key.pem

RemoteForward 55555 localhost:22

look mom, no hands! now, any time you log into an EC2 node, there’s a convenient reverse tunnel to your dev box and all you have to do is ssh ec2-node-fqdn from your workstation,

Once on the node, you can do the following:

git checkout ssh://yourworkstationuser@localhost:55555/home/yourusername/src/anygitrepo

1	git checkout ssh://yourworkstationuser@localhost:55555/home/yourusername/src/anygitrepo

boom! you can edit files on your workstation and then, rather than push them to master/dev, just pull the changeset on the dev ec2 node naturally with a git pull and you’re up-to-date and ready to test on!