APIs to check network connection without ssh

[jsonlynch]

I have been finding difficult to support web developer support for all firewall request opening port during off hours and need to have someone available during off hours just to check that firewall/network team have opened the routing/nacl or port correctly without any issues. The access to developers are restricted for ssh and kubectl so they have dependency on us.

Is there any simple opensource utility or software apis available that can help troubleshooting basic connection without login to the server, VM or doing kubectl? like doing telnet, nc, curl etc output without troubling the engineers who have access to terminals.

[jayeshmahajan · Accepted solution]

I have build tool cloud-devops-api last year to solve this problem, I hope this will help