Mole

mole Plugin

CLI application to create SSH tunnels focused on resiliency and user experience. Automatically reconnect and manage multiple SSH tunnels.

Commands

Tunnel Management

• mole tunnel start — Start an SSH tunnel

Utility

• mole _ _ — Passthrough to mole CLI

Usage Examples

• "Start SSH tunnel"
• "Port forwarding"
• "Create SSH tunnel"
• "Persistent SSH connection"

Installation

brew install mole

Or via Go:

go install github.com/davrodpin/mole@latest

Examples

# Local port forwarding
mole tunnel start local 8080:localhost:80 --server user@remote-server --key ~/.ssh/id_rsa

# Remote port forwarding
mole tunnel start remote 8080:localhost:80 --server user@remote-server

# With config file
mole tunnel start --alias my-tunnel

# Any mole command with passthrough
mole _ _ start local 8080:localhost:80 --server user@remote-server
mole _ _ show

Key Features

• Resilient - Auto reconnection
• Multiple - Multiple tunnels
• Config - Config file support
• Aliases - Named tunnels
• Local - Local forwarding
• Remote - Remote forwarding
• Dynamic - Dynamic forwarding
• Show - Show active tunnels
• Delete - Delete tunnels
• Logs - Logging support

Notes

• Requires SSH access to server
• Supports config file aliases
• Auto-reconnect on failure
• Great for development tunnels