Mole is a command-line application for creating SSH tunnels with an emphasis on resilience and user experience. It is designed to help users access or expose services that are behind firewalls, private networks, or otherwise unreachable from the current machine. Mole uses SSH access to a jump server as the bridge between the user and the target service. It simplifies common tunneling workflows that would otherwise require remembering long SSH commands and port-forwarding flags. The project is useful for developers, operators, and administrators who frequently connect to internal databases, dashboards, or web services through secure tunnels. Its focus is not to replace SSH, but to make SSH tunneling more reliable, readable, and easier to manage.
Features
- SSH tunnel creation from a CLI
- Access to services behind firewalls
- Jump server-based connection model
- Local and remote forwarding workflows
- Resiliency-focused tunnel behavior
- Simplified alternative to complex SSH commands