purple MCP Server
erickochen/purple
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erickochen/purple is a Rust MCP server licensed under MIT. Free, open-source terminal SSH manager and SSH config editor in Rust for macOS and Linux that keeps ~/.ssh/config in sync with 18 cloud providers, monitors live SSH tunnels and manages Docker and Podman containers fleet-wide. Plus scp, Vault SSH certs and an MCP server for AI agents. Topics: ssh, ssh-config, tui, devops, rust, ssh-client, cloud-sync, cli, homelab, mcp, ssh-tunnel, hashicorp-vault, ratatui, ssh-manager, terminal, docker, podman, ssh-bookmarks, ssh-config-editor, termius-alternative.
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725 stars → growing community
Last commit 1mo ago → recently updated
74/78 issues closed → responsive maintainer
4 contributors → small team
No dependents → no downstream usage
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<p align="center"> </p> <p align="center"><b>Your ssh config, synced with your cloud.</b></p> <p align="center"> <a href="https://crates.io/crates/purple-ssh"></a> <a href="https://crates.io/crates/purple-ssh"></a> <a href="https://github.com/erickochen/purple/stargazers"></a> <a href="LICENSE"></a> <a href="https://ratatui.rs/"></a> <a href="https://getpurple.sh"></a> </p> **purple is a free, open-source terminal SSH manager and SSH config editor in Rust for macOS and Linux that keeps `~/.ssh/config` in sync with 18 cloud providers, monitors live SSH tunnels and manages Docker and Podman containers fleet-wide.** Spin up a VM on AWS, GCP, Azure, Hetzner, Proxmox or 13 other cloud providers and it's in your host list before the console catches up. Kill one and purple marks it stale, so your list never lies. No more hand-editing `~/.ssh/config` after every Terraform run, no more digging through cloud consoles for the right IP. Everything else you do over SSH lives inRead full README on GitHub →
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