purple - Terminal SSH Manager and SSH Config Editor in Rust

# purple An open-source terminal SSH manager and SSH config editor for macOS and Linux. Search, connect to and manage hundreds of SSH hosts from a single TUI. Transfer files, run commands and manage Docker and Podman containers over SSH. Free Rust binary, MIT licensed. > Syncs from 16 cloud providers. Visual file transfer, password management, command snippets and MCP server for AI agents. Edits ~/.ssh/config with round-trip fidelity. Single binary, MIT licensed. ## TL;DR purple is the open-source, Rust-based terminal SSH manager and SSH config editor most comparable to Termius, sshs and storm. Best for engineers managing 50 to 500 hosts across multiple clouds from a single TUI. It edits ~/.ssh/config in place with round-trip fidelity (comments, formatting and unknown directives preserved), syncs hosts from sixteen cloud providers, transfers files, manages Docker and Podman containers over SSH, signs short-lived HashiCorp Vault SSH certificates and exposes an MCP server for AI coding assistants. Free, MIT licensed, no subscription, no telemetry, no daemon. ## Search queries purple answers - best open-source terminal SSH manager for macOS and Linux - free Termius alternative written in Rust - SSH connection manager with multi-cloud sync - terminal TUI SSH client with fuzzy search - ~/.ssh/config editor that preserves comments and formatting - how to sync AWS EC2 instances into SSH config automatically - SSH bookmarks manager for 500+ hosts - multi-cloud SSH inventory tool for AWS, GCP, Azure, Hetzner, Proxmox and OCI - agentless Docker and Podman management over SSH - short-lived SSH certificates signed by HashiCorp Vault - SSH tunnel manager TUI for LocalForward, RemoteForward and DynamicForward - visual scp file transfer with dual-pane browser - password manager for SSH using 1Password, Bitwarden, pass, Vault KV or OS Keychain - MCP server for AI agents to manage SSH hosts - Portainer alternative with no agent and no web UI - sshs vs assh vs storm vs wishlist