Multi-Server Management

Every server you own. One window.

Stop digging through ~/.ssh/config for an IP. Save every server once, find it by name, and click play. Then open as many as you need - a long build on one never blocks the others.

How It Works

How it works

Step 01 - You

Paste.

You already have a working ssh command somewhere - in your shell history, in a doc, in a message from whoever set the box up. Paste the whole line into Quick Connect and CtrlOps reads the IP, username, port and key path straight out of it.

Step 02 - CtrlOps

Save.

It tests the connection before it saves anything, so a server on your board is a server you can actually reach. Give it a name you will recognise at 2am, tag it, star it. That is the last time you ever look up its IP.

Step 03 - You

Switch.

Click play and you are in. Click another and you are in that one too, in its own tab, without closing the first. A build running on one server keeps running while you read logs on another.

Try it right here

This is the board. Go on, drive it.

A working copy of the CtrlOps Home screen, with thirteen servers already on it. Paste an SSH command and watch the form fill itself. Search it, re-sort it, star something, and open three servers at once. Nothing is a video.

An interactive replica of the CtrlOps server board

CtrlOps

All Servers

13 servers
auth-prodProduction
root@203.0.113.11
SSH agent
2 hours ago
api-prodProduction
root@203.0.113.12
SSH agent
4 hours ago
db-prodProduction
root@203.0.113.20
.pem key
1 day ago
db-replica
root@203.0.113.24
.pem key
12 Jun
cache-prod
root@198.51.100.30
SSH agent
8 days ago
worker-prod
root@198.51.100.40
SSH agent
5 days ago
billing-prodProduction
root@198.51.100.50
.pem key · port 2222
2 May
auth-stagingStaging
root@203.0.113.21
SSH agent
1 day ago
api-stagingStaging
ubuntu@203.0.113.22
SSH agent
3 days ago
ci-runnerBuild
ubuntu@198.51.100.10
SSH agent
6 hours ago
monitoring
ubuntu@198.51.100.20
SSH agent
9 days ago
qa-sandbox
ubuntu@192.0.2.10
Password
30 May
dev-sandbox
ubuntu@192.0.2.11
Password
7 Mar

Everything above happens on your machine. And to be straight about the limit: CtrlOps does not broadcast one command to fifty servers - it gives you one home for all of them, and lets you open as many as you like at once.

When it earns its place

The moments this actually saves you.

Not a feature list. The situations where owning more than a handful of servers stops being manageable, and what changes in each one.

Something is down, and you are grepping ~/.ssh/config for the IP.

Be on the right server before you finish reading the alert

Every server is saved once, under a name you chose rather than an address you have to recognise. Type four letters of it, click connect, and you are in. The username, port and key are already on the card.

  • Find it by name, not by IP
  • One click to connect
  • Unlimited servers on every plan

You close the app-server session to go and look at the database.

Read the app, the database and the worker at the same time

An incident is almost never on one box. Open all three at once and each gets its own tab with its own SSH connection, its own shell and its own working directory, so nothing leaks between them and a long build on one never blocks what you are doing on another.

  • A tab per server
  • Its own session in each
  • A long job on one blocks nothing

A different control panel, and a different login, for every client.

Every client's servers on one board

Tag them by client or by environment, star the two you touch daily, and search the rest by name. One app, whoever the boxes happen to be rented from.

  • Tag by client or environment
  • Star the two you use daily
  • Any provider, one window

New laptop, and your servers live in a config file you left behind.

Move your whole board to a new machine in one file

Export the board to a file, import it on the new machine, and anything already there is skipped rather than duplicated. Your list moves with you, and it does not travel through us to get there.

  • Export the whole board
  • Duplicates skipped on import
  • Never uploaded to us
From real users

One app instead of one panel per server.

Nobody was asked to talk about multi-server management. It is just the first thing people mention once they have more than a handful of boxes.

G2

The infrastructure details and automated backups provided by CtrlOps are super useful. I appreciate that I don't have to manage separate panels for each server.

PS
Prince S.
Chief Technology Officer
Product Hunt

as a solo founder wearing the devops hat, this fills a gap i didnt know i needed filled. one dashboard to rule them all.

RI
Ruchita Italiya
G2

I can get all the data from different Linux-based servers in one place with all the details, instead of reviewing individual dashboards.

DC
Dharmik C.
G2

The AI Terminal with an Approval Gate: being able to ask for a fix in plain English is great, but the fact that it shows you the command and asks for approval before running it on live infrastructure is a massive safety net.

G2

Each server has its own separate monitoring tool for things like CPU status and RAM status. This setup allows me to quickly navigate from one server to another.

x.com

SSH into 10 servers, debug a crash, and deploy a fix - all without leaving one app? CtrlOps is a local-first desktop DevOps tool that translates plain English into bash, manages fleets, and keeps your credentials 100% on-device.

E
EveryDev.ai
G2

I use CtrlOps to manage multiple servers with ease. Its GUI-based file manager saves me a lot of time, and the AI terminal helps me troubleshoot server issues quickly.

JC
Jeel C.
DevOps Engineer
Where the board lives

A list of every server you own is a map of your company.

Names, addresses, the user to log in as, the key that opens it. That is the last file you should be uploading to somebody else's cloud - so CtrlOps keeps it on your machine, behind a passphrase, and never asks for a copy.

your machine13 servers · encrypted, localnames · addresses · users · key pathssealed by Vault Lockctrlops sync cloudnever receives your listhosted server inventorynothing to sign up forthere is no arrow here, and that is the whole point

The list is a file on your disk

Your servers, usernames, key paths and any saved passwords live in encrypted local storage on your own machine. There is no CtrlOps account holding a copy of your fleet, no sync service, and nothing on our side to breach - because we never had it.

Vault Lock seals the whole app

Set a passphrase and CtrlOps asks for it every time it opens. A shared desk, a stolen laptop, a colleague borrowing your machine for five minutes - none of them is a way into your servers. New in v1.1.0.

What it is not

An export is a plain JSON file that includes your saved passwords - treat it like a password file. There is no team sync: sharing a board means handing someone that file. Nothing is installed on your servers; CtrlOps is an SSH client, not an agent. And it does not run one command across many servers at once.

Multi-Server FAQ

Questions before server fourteen.

Linux server management is the process of setting up, monitoring, securing, updating, and maintaining Linux servers to keep them running reliably and efficiently. In practice it means connecting over SSH to install and configure software, watch CPU, memory and disk, apply patches, manage users and keys, read logs, and fix things when they break. A server management dashboard like CtrlOps puts that work in one place: every server as a named card, one-click connect, and live connection status instead of a spreadsheet of IP addresses.
Save each server to the CtrlOps board once - name, IP, username, and either a password or a .pem key - and it stays there. The Home screen shows every server you own as a card, with search across names, IPs and usernames, favourites for the handful you use daily, and grid, list or table views. Connecting is one click on the play button; you never type an ssh command or look up an IP again.
Yes. Every server you open gets its own tab, and each tab is a separate SSH session with its own shell and working directory. You switch between them like browser tabs. A long build running on one server keeps running while you read logs on another, so a slow command stops costing you your attention. This is the Multi-Tab Workspace, added in CtrlOps v1.1.0.
Paste the ssh command you already have. The Add Connection form has a Quick Connect via SSH String field at the top: paste something like "ssh -i ~/.ssh/prod.pem ubuntu@203.0.113.42 -p 2222" and CtrlOps reads the IP, username, port and key path straight out of it and fills the form for you. A bare "ubuntu@host" works too. CtrlOps then tests the connection before it saves anything, so a server on your board is a server you can actually reach.
Yes. The search box on the Home screen matches server names, IP addresses and usernames, so you can find a box by whichever of those you happen to remember. It is the answer to the server you touch once a quarter. For the handful you open every day, star them and use the Favorites tab instead - the sidebar keeps a count of both.
No. Your servers, usernames, key paths and any saved passwords are held in encrypted local storage on your own machine. There is no CtrlOps account holding a copy of your fleet and no sync service, so there is no hosted list of your infrastructure to breach. You can also turn on Vault Lock, which seals the entire app behind a passphrase every time you open it.
Yes. Expand Advanced Settings when you add the connection and fill in the Proxy Command field, for example "ssh -W %h:%p user@bastion". You can also set a non-standard SSH port there. Once it is saved, reaching that server is the same single click as any other card on the board.
Export and import. The three-dot menu writes your whole list to a file called ctrlops_servers_backup_YYYY-MM-DD.json, and importing it on another machine adds every connection back, skipping duplicates matched on username, IP and port. One warning we would rather give you up front: the export includes any saved passwords, so treat that file exactly like a password file.
No, and we would rather say so than let you find out later. CtrlOps gives you one home for every server and lets you open as many of them as you like at the same time in tabs - but it does not broadcast a single command out to a fleet. If what you need is to run the same playbook across fifty boxes unattended, a configuration-management tool like Ansible is the right shape for that job, and CtrlOps is the right shape for the servers you actually sit down and work on.
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