Using an SSH keyfile with Fabric

Question

How do you configure fabric to connect to remote hosts using SSH keyfiles (for example, Amazon EC2 instances)?

Answer 1

Another cool feature available as of Fabric 1.4 - Fabric now supports SSH configs.

If you already have all the SSH connection parameters in your ~/.ssh/config file, Fabric will natively support it, all you need to do is add:

env.use_ssh_config = True

at the beginning of your fabfile.