vssh

A faster, funkier alternative to vagrant ssh.

Install

Dobbin

dobbin add https://github.com/shkm/vssh vssh

Homebrew

brew install shkm/brew/vssh

Generic

Copy or symlink vssh to a place in your path.

Features

Fast

vagrant ssh is slow. vssh is fast.

On my 2014 Macbook Air:

$ time vssh
vssh  0.02s user 0.01s system

$ time vagrant ssh
vagrant ssh  2.18s user 0.43s system

Contextual

vssh figures out which directory it should be in after SSHing into the box.

Easiest way to describe this is with an example. Assuming vagrant user is vagrant and your project's route is synced to /vagrant:

$ pwd
my_vagrant_project/foo/bar

$ vagrant ssh
$ pwd
/home/vagrant

$ vssh
$ pwd
/vagrant/foo/bar

Convenient

Oh, yeah, you can just throw a command at vssh and it'll execute inside the box without leaving you there. This uses a login shell and same directory rules as plain old vssh.

$ uname
Darwin

$ vssh uname
Linux

Shell

You might find the following shell functions useful in combination with vssh.

• v and v ssh will SSH into the machine with vssh
• v <command> will run the command inside the machine with vssh
• v <vagrant command> will run the command against vagrant (e.g. v up or v status).

zsh

Grab the function here.

fish

Grab the function here. Better yet, install with fisherman: fisher install shkm/vssh.

Details

Either run vssh or vssh some_command to ssh into the box or run a command inside it, respectively. vssh --help is always available.

vssh generates two files: .vagrant/ssh_config and .vagrant/vssh.cfg.

ssh_config

ssh_config is populated if not found (this actually calls vagrant, and is therefore slow). if your box's ssh config changes, you can refresh this with vssh --refresh.

vssh.cfg

vssh.cfg is generated interactively if not found. Currently the only required option is the root directory you'd like to be dumped into relative to your host directory.

Assuming your main synced folder (.) is mounted at /vagrant, you'd set the root directory to /vagrant.

To re-run vssh.cfg generation, execute vssh --generate

Inspiration

• Too much waiting
• A repo with projects as submodules
• vassh