How to run a python script on a remote ec2 instance using sudo from pycharm

Question

I am running pycharm 2017.2.3. I want to run my python script on a remote ec2 instance using sudo user through pycharm. How do I acieve this?

Answer 1

Follow the steps below:

1. Go to File -> Settings -> Project Interpreter and add a new interpreter

2. Click on + to add a new python interpreter and then click on SSH interpreter

3. Provide your EC2 Public DNS in HOST and ubuntu as username

4. Click Next and add the private_key.pem file.

See this article for more details: PyCharm setup for AWS automatic deployment

Answer 2

It looks like you can configure your python interpreter over SSH with the professional version of PyCharm.

Configuring Remote Interpreter + PyCharm

Answer 3

Finally found an answer after a researching through the internet. We can have a script on remote machine as a pycharm interpreter. Create a following script on a remote machine and make sure the script is executable.

#!/bin/bash
sudo /usr/bin/python "$@"

Now change the project interpreter to point to the above script on remote machine in pycharm. Now every script you run on local machine gets executed on remote as a sudo user.