purple

An open-source terminal SSH manager and SSH config editor for macOS and Linux. A fast Rust TUI that searches hundreds of hosts, syncs from 16 clouds including AWS, GCP, Azure, Hetzner, Proxmox and OCI, transfers files, manages Docker and Podman over SSH, signs short-lived HashiCorp Vault SSH certificates and exposes an MCP server for AI agents. Keyboard-driven. Single binary. MIT licensed.

Install

curl -fsSL getpurple.sh | sh

brew install erickochen/purple/purple

cargo install purple-ssh

git clone https://github.com/erickochen/purple.git
cd purple && cargo build --release

Run purple. Press ? on any screen for help. That's it.

Why I built this

My SSH config was fine. Proper aliases, ProxyJump chains, organized by provider. Not the problem.

The problem was everything around it. Need to check a container? ssh host docker ps. Copy a file? scp with the right flags. Run the same command on ten hosts? Write a loop or boot up Ansible for a one-liner. Spin up a VM on Hetzner? Open the console, grab the IP, edit config, save. Someone asks which box runs what? Good luck.

I wanted one place for all of that. So I built it.

What you get

🔍 Everything at a glance. Connection info, jump route, activity sparkline, tags, tunnels, snippets, containers and server metadata. Health dots show which hosts are up. Group by provider, tag or flat.

⚡ Instant fuzzy search. Names, IPs, tags, users. Frecency sorting puts your most-used hosts on top. Works the same with 5 hosts or 500. Scoped search within groups.

☁️ 16 cloud providers. AWS, DigitalOcean, Hetzner, GCP, Azure, Proxmox VE, Vultr, Linode, UpCloud, Scaleway, Tailscale, Oracle Cloud, OVHcloud, Leaseweb, i3D.net and TransIP. VMs appear, IPs update, stale hosts dim. Region, instance type, OS and status synced as metadata.

🐳 Containers over SSH. Docker and Podman. Start, stop, restart. No agent on the remote, no extra ports. Just SSH.

And more. Visual file transfer with split-pane explorer. Multi-host command execution with snippets. Automatic password retrieval from OS Keychain, 1Password, Bitwarden, pass and the HashiCorp Vault KV secrets engine. Short-lived SSH certificates signed via the HashiCorp Vault SSH secrets engine. MCP server for AI agents like Claude Code and Cursor. See the wiki for details.

How it works

purple reads ~/.ssh/config directly. No database, no daemon, no account. Comments, indentation, Include files, unknown directives. All preserved.

Written in Rust. Single binary. 6000+ tests. MIT license.

Links

📖 Wiki · ☁️ Cloud Providers · 🤖 MCP Server · ❓ FAQ · 🔒 Security · 🧠 llms.txt

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