VIvisak·Feb 19, 2013
According to the developer of ghost, the ghost-ssh features will be removed in the near future. Which is sad.
More at https://github.com/bjeanes/ghost/issues/40
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Create, list, delete, and modify /etc/hosts entries with ease...
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| Dec 24 | 2012-12-24 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-12-31 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Dec 31 | 2012-12-31 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-01-07 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 7 | 2013-01-07 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-01-14 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 14 | 2013-01-14 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-01-21 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 21 | 2013-01-21 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-01-28 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 28 | 2013-01-28 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-02-04 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 4 | 2013-02-04 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-02-11 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 11 | 2013-02-11 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-02-18 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 18 | 2013-02-18 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-02-25 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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2 sourcesIf it works for you for now then no real need to change it. A proper deployment tool usually makes it easier to deploy apps of different types and languages using a consistent set of tools.
What I do when working with SSH'ing to AWS instances is to give them a readable name (like nginx-1, nginx-2) tag, and then place those names as hostnames in my /etc/hosts, so I can then just run ssh nginx-1. I use a script around https://github.com/bjeanes/ghost to automate this.
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