Shuttle For Ubuntu is super simple & quick way to SSH into hosts defined in your ~/.ssh/config file, and it does not comes in your way. You can still enjoy the command line pleasure that comes with ssh-config seamlessly.

Refer to the Github page to see what it looks like

Installing Shuttle is easy, fire up your terminal, and execute the following commands in order:

sudo wget https://raw.github.com/ashisha/shuttle/master/shuttle -O /usr/local/bin/shuttle
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/shuttle
mkdir -p ~/.config/autostart
wget https://github.com/ashisha/shuttle/raw/master/shuttle.desktop -O ~/.config/autostart/shuttle.desktop
nohup shuttle >/dev/null &

Note: If you face issues with wget due to https/certificates, use the --no-check-certificate switch with wget. This is not recommended due to security concerns, but go ahead if you know what you are doing.

• Shuttle needs no configuration to run as such
• All the hosts listed in your ~/.ssh/config will be automatically picked by Shuttle
• To prettify, create groups of your hosts by adding comments to your ssh config file as: #Shuttle Group <group>/<host description>
• You can also ignore certain Host entries so as they do not appear in the Shuttle by adding an ignore comment as: #Shuttle Ignore
• An example ssh config file may look like:

    #Shuttle Group Work/Work 1
    Host pdc1
    Hostname 1.2.3.4
    
    #Shuttle Group WithoutGroup
    Host pdc2
    Hostname 1.2.3.5
    
    #Shuttle Ignore
    Host xlabs
    Hostname supersecret.example.com

• Refer the Github page for a WYSIWYG perspective