* [JENKINS-45781] Remote ssh host management and configurable host na…

[Ykus]

• [JENKINS-45781] Remote ssh host management and configurable host name (or alias)
  Adds possibility to name / alias SSH hosts.
  Name / alias is displayed in select box (SSH site) where you can execute remote commands or scripts in project configuration.

@jenkinsci/code-reviewers

[fliespl]

This PR would be great for upcoming release. It really helps if you connect to multiple ip based machines.

[ljader]

IMHO this should be more in form of a "naming strategy" where you pick from combo-box whether you like the old, user@hostname or "aliased one" - it would be easier to implement custom ones e.g. based on job's binded credentials etc.

[fliespl]

But that's how it was prepared, isn't it?

Name/Alias is optional and if it's empty it will fallback to default value user@hostname.

[ljader]

I'm not against this PR, but IMHO if I'm defining an "alias" I expect the original information to be hidden (aliased) entirely - and in the PR it works more in a "prefix" way.

[Ykus]

I think, that this solution Name / alias - SSH host is better than just an Name / alias. And it does not matter if we call it alias or prefix. I think it will improve user experience.

[daolou]

@ljader
Excuse me, I have a problem:
jenkins: v2.138.1
ssh-plugin: v2.6.1
the "Add Credentials" button don't work, how to do???

Otherwise, I have only one server, I wanna deploy a nodejs project though jenkins with docker on it,
so, what should I do?

[ilaipi]

I think this is very useful, hope to be merged

[bsramin]

any news about this essential PR for environments where there are dozens of external servers?

Thanks! :)

[Ykus]

I have created a release version with this PR https://github.com/Ykus/ssh-plugin/releases/tag/ssh-2.7-SNAPSHOT
You can build it by yourself or use ssh-2.7-SNAPSHOT.hpi from link above.

If the owner of this plugin will come up with exact definition how this improvements should work I can change the behavior.
Otherwise it doesn't make sense to work on something that's not accepted.