1454578 - install an ssh server on taskcluster windows workers

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Infrastructure & Operations :: RelOps: General, task)

Comment 1

[Rob Thijssen [:grenade (EET/UTC+0300)]]

testing on beta workers:
https://github.com/mozilla-releng/OpenCloudConfig/commit/ad9df9e7b507ad2e6541459f8c1641ef37e7a16e

Comment 2

[Rob Thijssen [:grenade (EET/UTC+0300)]]

seems to be working well.

add your public key to a new line here to give yourself ssh access to workers:
https://github.com/mozilla-releng/OpenCloudConfig/blob/master/userdata/Configuration/ssh/authorized_keys

for win 10 and win 2012 the username to connect is Administrator. eg:
$ ssh -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa Administrator@<public_ip_of_worker>

for win 7 the username to connect is root. eg:
$ ssh -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa root@<public_ip_of_worker>

the current implementation uses the powershell shell on the remote instance. if you want bash, just type "bash" at the powershell prompt. it takes a while to load the bash shell, but if you are patient, it will eventually load.

Comment 3

[Rob Thijssen [:grenade (EET/UTC+0300)]]

deployed to all windows worker types except l3 builders.
the aws security groups do not include ssh access for now so you need both a public key in authorized_keys (see comment 2, best to add this long before you need it as it will take hours before all workers have synced the authorized_keys file) and you need to add the ssh security group to the worker you wish to connect to (the sg can be added to a running instance and takes effect immediately).