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AWS SSM Support

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#1,330 opened on Dec 6, 2021

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Description

AWS offers Session Manager as a way to connect to backend instances without needing to expose any connectivity. It would be amazing if I could use blink to connect to instances inside of profiles. There is also the ability to proxy ports and combined with the existing SSH port forwarding ability would enable a large amount of workflows to move over to blink.

Session Manager is also what powers AWS ECS Exec where you can execute commands inside your containers running on Fargate.

From my understanding there is two major components to Session Manager. The plugin which does a bunch of the communication https://github.com/aws/session-manager-plugin and the AWS CLI that initiates the connection then passes it to the plugin https://github.com/aws/aws-cli/blob/develop/awscli/customizations/sessionmanager.py

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Research direction
Investigate how to integrate AWS Session Manager plugin with Blink's existing SSH port forwarding capabilities. Study the session manager plugin source code and AWS CLI session manager implementation to understand the protocol and how to trigger the plugin from within Blink's iOS environment.
Tech stack
swiftgo
Domain
mobile
Issue type
Feature
DifficultyEstimated implementation difficulty for a new contributor, from 1 for very small changes to 5 for expert-level work.
4
Estimated timeA rough time range for an experienced contributor to investigate, implement, test, and prepare a pull request.
1-2 days
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Stale
ClarityHow clearly the issue explains the expected change, acceptance criteria, and next step.
Mostly clear
Prerequisites
SwiftAWS CLI
Newbie friendlinessA 1-100 score estimating how approachable this issue is for first-time contributors.
40