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speaker-text: "Corey Halpin"
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title: "Doing more with SSH"
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Logfile analysis and monitoring can help ensure the correct operation and health of IT infrastructure. For environments with a small number of servers, standard unix tools are often sufficient for this purpose. Large environments with hundreds of servers can use observabilty platforms like the ELK stack, Grafana, or Splunk. For those of us in between those extremes of size, there does not seem to be a widely used off-the-shelf solution. This talk outlines an approach that combines standard unix tools with a variety of small text mining utilities like [angle-grinder](https://github.com/rcoh/angle-grinder), [ugrep](https://ugrep.com/), [fzf](https://junegunn.github.io/fzf/), [lnav](https://lnav.org/), and [GNU datamash](https://www.gnu.org/software/datamash/) to achieve much of the power of larger observability platforms without the need to install, configure, and manage a large software package. While the examples shown focus on logfile analysis, the strategies involved can be generalized for other corpuses of textual data.
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SSH is an incredible Swiss-army chainsaw of secure networking. This talk
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presents a brief overview of how the SSH protocol works, including
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recommendations on how to configure SSH clients and servers for higher
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security. This incorporates a brief tutorial on how to create and use ssh keys
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for authentication, including the use of ssh-agent and agent forwarding so
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that password-protected keys can be used relatively painlessly. An overview of
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SSH's network tunneling features will be presented, including the use of
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static and dynamic port forwarding, jump hosts using a ProxyCommand, and
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light-weight VPNs with the ssh Tunnel feature. Discussion will also cover
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tools that can extend SSH's power like [mosh](https://mosh.org/) (for
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interactive terminals on high-latency networks),
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[sshuttle](https://github.com/sshuttle/sshuttle) (a VPN when Tunnel won't
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work), and various editor integrations.

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