ssh-para
Parallel SSH jobs manager with interactive CLI
TLDR
Run a command on multiple hosts
$ ssh-para -H [host1] [host2] [host3] -- echo connection ok
Mass patch with 20 parallel jobs$ ssh-para -p 20 -f [hostlist.txt] -- 'sudo yum update -y'
Execute a local script on remote hosts$ ssh-para -p 20 -f [hosts.txt] -s [./myscript] -a status
SYNOPSIS
ssh-para [-p parallelism] [-H hosts... | -f hostfile] -- command
DESCRIPTION
ssh-para enables executing commands and scripts across multiple remote servers simultaneously with interactive real-time output monitoring. It supports pausing, resuming, and aborting jobs, killing stuck connections, configurable parallelism, and log generation. Requires SSH key-based authentication.
PARAMETERS
-p N
Number of parallel SSH connections.-H HOSTS
Space-separated list of target hosts.-f FILE
File containing target hostnames, one per line.-s SCRIPT
Local script to execute on remote hosts.-a ARGS
Arguments to pass to the script.
HISTORY
ssh-para was created by joknarf and is written in Python.
