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Add tsh command to resolve a single host
`tsh resolve` allows identifying a single host either directly by hostname, or via custom search/predicate expression from a matched proxy template. The main use case is to provide a simple command for users that wish to use `Match exec` in their SSH config. Today, all matching in SSH config must be done via DNS and requires users to add some Teleport specific suffix/prefix, or use a wildcard entry to invoke a tsh proxy command. For example, the SSH config generated today via `tsh config` is the following: ``` # Common flags for all local.dev hosts Host *.cluster-name proxy.example.com UserKnownHostsFile "/Users/tim/.tsh/known_hosts" IdentityFile "/Users/tim/.tsh/keys/proxy.example.com/tim" CertificateFile "/Users/tim/.tsh/keys/proxy.example.com/tim-ssh/cluster-name-cert.pub" # Flags for all local.dev hosts except the proxy Host *.cluster-name Port 3022 !proxy.example.com ProxyCommand "tsh" proxy ssh --cluster=cluster-name --proxy=proxy.example.com:443 %r@%h:%p ``` This allows connections to the Teleport SSH service without using tsh directly via `ssh foo.cluster-name`. However, when migrating to Teleport, that requires the user to alter their existing workflow to include the cluster-name suffix. To remedy this, users can now augment their SSH config to utilize `Match exec` instead of globbing on the cluster name suffix with the following: ``` Match exec "tsh resolve -q %h" ProxyCommand "tsh" proxy ssh --cluster=cluster-name --proxy=proxy.example.com:443 %r@%h:%p ``` By default tsh resolve will output the matching host, if one was found, but if the `-q` flag provided like in the example above the output will be silenced. If no matches are found, or multiple matches are found, `tsh resolve` will exit with a non-zero exit code as per the `Match exec` requirements. If and only if a single host is resolved will `tsh resolve` exit with a zero exit code. There are performance concerns that need to be taken into account before users adopt this in their SSH config. First, this may cause `tsh resolve` to be invoked on any SSH request. For example, even doing git pull/git push may now first require `tsh resolve` to exit with a non-zero exit code before interact with the git remote. Additionally, when `tsh resolve` finds a match, any connections to the node will require _two_ connections to the cluster and _two_ ListUnifiedResourcesRequests to resolve the host since the invocation of `tsh resolve` and `tsh proxy ssh` or `tbot proxy ssh` do not share any resources. For the reasons mentioned above, the SSH configuration generated by `tsh config` was not updated to include this new command. If users want to opt into this behavior they must acknowledge the latency concerns by manually editting the config.
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