Teleport: Mosh Everywhere

[tomberek]

This is to start discussion about implementing the use of mosh throughout teleport.
Pros:

• reconnections
• latency
• embedded systems
• roaming

Cons:

• complexity
• dependencies

[klizhentas]

I think SSP is a really smart protocol and mosh solves an important problem, but for exactly the cons you have mentioned, this is out of scope of teleport - at least for now.

I'm keeping the door (and issue) open, as I think at some point teleport should promote innovative solutions for the problems folks are facing when working with remote terminals. So folks who care, use this ticket to post your thoughts and feedback here, we'll use it as a reference.

[remingtonc]

Huge fan. Hate it when I'm in transit with low-bandwidth or my VPN decides it's time to reconnect and my SSH sessions break. Mosh is absolutely seamless in these scenarios. No idea on the level of difficulty, unfortunately.

[dadicool]

Just faced a situation where mosh + teleport would have made my life much less miserable: I've been trying to connect to k8s pod over a vpn connection over 4G while traveling on a fast moving train. Needless to say, I couldn't really fix the problem. I would love to see this implemented!

[CryptoLunatic]

Just want to throw in a +1 for this - I use mosh for every host that I connect to for shell access. I'm looking to improve my security, and Teleport has been the most enticing solution I have found. Mosh compatibility was the very first thing I looked up after reading the Quick Start and Architecture guides - This looks like a no-brainer solution to security concerns about SSH (mainly for me, it's the widespread use of SSH keys), but the lack of mosh support has me seriously torn about whether or not I want to implement Teleport.

All in all though, a big thanks to everyone involved for developing what looks like a truly awesome SSH management solution!

[shaneshort]

I would also love to see mosh support. I'm very often on poor connections (loss/latency) and it's a life saver for me. I also love the statelessness of it, having your WAN link drop and the session just blissfully resume is amazing.