Simplify SSH host - for memorising, constructing from URL, and pasting into SSH clients

[loujaybee]

One current advantage of the SSH private key connection is that the URL is more stable than before, where you needed to go back to dashboard and copy/paste the access token (which reset on each workspace start).

New SSH key connection format:

Format: {workspace-id}@{workspace-id}.{ssh-subdomain}.{workspace-generation}.{TLD}
Example: gitpodio-website-25tzkerndba@gitpodio-website-25tzkerndba.ssh.ws-eu54.gitpod.io

The new SSH connection is now more stable, but there are still some aspects which could be refined:

1. Generation included in the name e.g. .ws-eu54.gitpod.io - For new generations this means the URL changes, and it's also not easy to know what the URL will be without starting a workspace and checking the URL.
2. Duplication of the workspace-id - If possible, it would be better to remove this duplication, for users who want to "memorise" the SSH pattern and/or construct it themselves intuitively using the workspace ID (use case / example: when breaking apart the connection string to paste into SSH clients with username, host, as separate files)
3. Inclusion of the ssh subdomain - Having a separate URL for SSH is helpful, but also adds additional friction when constructing the URL For other clients, and/or trying to remember the pattern. However, this aspect is probably the least impacting on friction.

[akosyakov]

fyi [email protected] should work already, not sure whether we can do anything about cluster generation cc @iQQBot

[iojcde]

Could there be a way to completely exclude the cluster from the workspace URL on the SaaS instance? A URL that only points to a workspace ID would be convenient.

If that doesn't work, to solve the issue of cluster name changes(#10288 (comment)), would there be a way to automatically change the link when the cluster changes too (similar to how the current web dashboard works)?

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