Web Based SSH Access your OpenShift Applications
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Join For FreeI recently came across KeyBox.
This is a Apache licensed SSH console for applications in an OpenShift
Domain. The cool thing is, that it is completely web-based. And by far
cooler: The client is completely written in JavaScript (using term.js) connecting to JSch (Java implementation of SSH2) running as a web-application on the JBoss Enterprise Web Server (EWS 2.0).
This is a quick and easy way to get hand on your machine, if you can't use a native ssh client. And it is a great tool in your xPaaS developer toolbox.
Prerequisites
There's not a hell lot to get started: But you obviously need a free OpenShift account first. After that, install the OpenShift client tools
(aka rhc). They require Ruby 1.8.7 or higher. If you want to get the
most out of it, make sure to install Git for your system, too.
Installing
Installing is just a one-liner in the terminal:
rhc app create keybox jbossews-2.0 --from-code git://github.com/skavanagh/KeyBox-OpenShift.git
It might take a while, but after the command finished, you can access KeyBox via:
https://keybox-<namespace>.rhcloud.com
All members of the domain can login with their OpenShift account.
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