codeman99 / tunnel-manager

A web UI for ssh tunnel management.

Tunnel Manager

A docker compose application to manage ssh tunnels.

Work in Progress

This is not yet complete. Very happy to accept pull requests or feedback!

Application Design

There are three parts to this application. All sub-applications are in a container.

Browser UI

Location: src/web

User interface to create, stop, and get the status of ssh tunnels.

This is not finished. The intention is to use nginx for serving static content.

The nginx container will also serve as the proxy server to other parts of the application.

HTTP API

Location: src/app

An Express implemention. Simple HTTP routes only.

• GET /tunnels - a list of currently open tunnels.
• PUT /tunnels/:remoteName - start a ssh tunnel connection.
• GET /tunnels/:remoteName - check status of ssh session.
• DELETE /tunnels/:remoteName - request exit of ssh session.

Tunnel Server

Location: src/tunnel

A bash script that uses nc as an interface to call ssh commands.

This is the ssh tunnel persistence layer. In this container you will need to configure your ssh client with a volume mounted at /home/tunnel/.ssh. Currently, the user is static, with uid=1000; gid=1000.

Logging

Location: docker-compose.yml

A datalust/seq container is configured for logging. All other containers can send structured logs here. The src/web container will also proxy the admin UI.