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A Practical Guide to SSH Tunnels: Local and Remote Port Forwarding | iximiuz Labs

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SSH is yet another example of an ancient technology that is still in wide use today. It may very well be that learning a couple of SSH tricks is more profitable in the long run than mastering a dozen Cloud Native tools or AI agent frameworks destined to become deprecated next quarter. One of my favorite parts of this technology is SSH Tunnels. With nothing but standard tools and often using just a single command, you can achieve the following: Access internal VPC endpoints through a public-facing EC2 instance. Open a localhost port of a remote development VM in the local browser. Expose any local server from a home/private network to the outside world. Tunnel your browser's debugging port to a remote sandboxed coding agent . And more 😍 But despite the fact that I use SSH Tunnels daily, it always takes me a while to recall the right command. Should it be a Local or a Remote tunnel? What are the flags? Is it a local_port:remote_port or the other way around?…

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