`session-manager-plugin` - the AWS Session Manager plugin: the client side of `aws ssm start-session`

session-manager-plugin

Examples

$ session-manager-plugin

check that it is installed

$ aws ssm start-session --target i-0abc...

a shell on the instance, no SSH, no port 22

Without it, aws ssm start-session fails with "SessionManagerPlugin is not found. Please refer to SessionManager Documentation here: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/console/systems-manager/session-manager-plugin-not-found".
The instance side is the SSM Agent (snap amazon-ssm-agent on Ubuntu AMIs), which needs the AmazonSSMManagedInstanceCore permissions and HTTPS to ssm, ssmmessages and ec2messages (a NAT route or interface endpoints).

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