"Remote terminal application that allows roaming, supports intermittent connectivity"
The build server (#98) should greatly speed up things even for very stable connections because packer running within AWS will have by definition a tiny fraction of the latency than running from a laptop.
A Jump server with Mosh should hopefully be of similar benefit for flakey wifi.
Tmux
The build process is being altered to reduce the need to SSH into cluster instances, but sometimes that is inescapable. When you bring a lot of clusters up and down that becomes very tedious so its a lot easier to manage sessions with a multiplexer like tmux.
A nice potential bonus is collaboration on a session and some minor security benefits (only whitelist some traffic between the cluster(s) and the Bastion instance instead of to the entire world).
Mosh
The build server (#98) should greatly speed up things even for very stable connections because packer running within AWS will have by definition a tiny fraction of the latency than running from a laptop.
A Jump server with Mosh should hopefully be of similar benefit for flakey wifi.
Tmux
The build process is being altered to reduce the need to SSH into cluster instances, but sometimes that is inescapable. When you bring a lot of clusters up and down that becomes very tedious so its a lot easier to manage sessions with a multiplexer like tmux.
A nice potential bonus is collaboration on a session and some minor security benefits (only whitelist some traffic between the cluster(s) and the Bastion instance instead of to the entire world).