kgignatyev / http-over-ssh

using Kotlin native to dynamically run ssh with port forwarding

HTTP through SSH

Project tries to use Kotlin/Native to create a simple HTTP server that on demand creates a SSH connection to a remote server with port forwarding to a local port.

Mainly intended to be used by Prometheus to scrape metrics from a remote server

Usage

./gradlew build
# ./gradlew runReleaseExecutableNative
./build/bin/native/releaseExecutable/http-over-ssh.kexe

Then in a browser enter an url like this: http://localhost:6060/[email protected]/localhost:7070/api/public/mgmt

This will create an SSH connection to ladder.kgignatyev.com with port forwarding from localhost:7070 a , then make an HTTP request to localhost:<local port>/api/public/mgmt and return the response.