About

A shelf for the servers you set up by hand.

sshwiz is built by Higglerslab, a small independent software studio. It exists because most servers are still set up by someone pasting commands from a gist, and that never stopped being error-prone.

What sshwiz is

A desktop app for macOS, Linux and Windows that connects to a Linux server over a normal SSH session and installs what you tick from a shelf: Docker, Nginx, Certbot, pinned Node.js and Python versions, and any recipe you or the community write. Every recipe is three steps — check, install, verify — and every command is listed before it runs.

What it isn't

It is not configuration management and does not try to be. If you rebuild a fleet from code, Ansible or Terraform remain the right tools. sshwiz is for the one to twenty servers a person sets up and looks after by hand — the ones that would otherwise be configured from memory.

Principles

Nothing on the server. No agent, no daemon, no relay. Uninstalling sshwiz changes nothing on the box.
Nothing runs unseen. The install review lists every command, and every byte of output comes back to the terminal panel.
Your credentials stay yours. Profiles live in an AES-256-GCM encrypted file on your machine, with the key in the OS keychain. We never see them — see the privacy policy.

Who makes it

Higglerslab builds and supports sshwiz. The people who write the code also answer the support inbox — write to contact@higglerslab.com or see the support page for what to include.

Contribute a recipe

The marketplace is open to community packages and scripts. The authoring guide explains every field, and the marketplace itself is open source on GitHub.