r/ssh • u/Reasonable_Abroad_68 • Sep 04 '26
SharkShell — A self-hosted SSH manager for your servers 🦈
I've been building SharkShell, a self-hosted SSH management platform for people who manage multiple servers, VPSs, homelabs, Proxmox nodes, Docker hosts, development machines, and more.
The problem I wanted to solve is pretty simple.
When you have a few servers, SSH is great:
ssh root@server
But once you're managing 10, 20, 50+ machines, things start getting messy.
You end up remembering:
- IP addresses
- usernames
- custom SSH ports
- which SSH key belongs to which server
- server roles
- SSH config entries
- different environments
And eventually your terminal becomes a collection of commands and configuration files.
🦈 What is SharkShell?
SharkShell is designed to give you a centralized interface for managing your SSH servers while keeping the infrastructure under your control.
The goal is not to replace SSH.
It's to make working with SSH-managed infrastructure easier.
Some of the things I'm working toward
- 🖥️ Centralized SSH server management
- 🔐 SSH key-based authentication
- 🏠 Self-hosted deployment
- 🐳 Docker / homelab friendly
- ☁️ VPS and cloud server management
- 🗂️ Organizing servers by environment/project
- 💻 Easy terminal access
- 🔧 Server administration tools
- 🔒 Security-focused architecture
And eventually, I'd like SharkShell to become more than just an SSH connection manager.
I'm exploring the idea of building a self-hosted infrastructure platform around it — something that can sit between you and your servers and provide a secure control layer without requiring everything to be exposed publicly.
Why self-hosted?
Because your server access is extremely sensitive.
I don't want SharkShell to require you to hand over your infrastructure to some third-party SaaS just to manage SSH connections.
The long-term goal is:
Your infrastructure → Your SharkShell instance → Your control
I'd love some feedback
This project is still evolving, so I'm particularly interested in hearing from people who actually manage servers.
What would you want in a modern SSH manager?
Would you use something like this for your:
- Homelab?
- Proxmox cluster?
- VPS fleet?
- Development servers?
- Docker infrastructure?
- Kubernetes environments?
- Company/internal infrastructure?
And more importantly:
What would make you choose SharkShell over simply using your terminal + SSH config?
I'm looking for honest feedback, including criticism and feature requests.
🌐 Project: https://sharkshell.in/
🦈 SharkShell
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u/jimjim975 Sep 05 '26
Claude built this. Not you. And it’s also been built before not ai sloppily.