How can I go get tsh packages, to embed tsh in a similar way to how tsh embeds kubectl?

[simoncrowe]

I'm part of a platform team working on a Go-based CLI to provide access to Kubernetes clusters, databases, test environments and so on.

We want to add shortcuts to perform common operations that don't exist in tsh. Internally, we use a python-based CLI that wraps tsh with subprocess calls. One downside of this is that it's difficult to package and distribute to people working on different operating systems.

In an ideal word, we would import what we need from tsh, add our functionality and compile the result into a static binary and ship this to users of the platform.

Here's an example of how kubectl code is imported into tsh: https://github.com/gravitational/teleport/blob/v14.3.16/tool/tsh/common/kube.go#L49-L53

For Teleport version 14, if I run

go get github.com/gravitational/teleport/tool/tsh/[email protected]

I eventually get this error:

go: github.com/gravitational/teleport/tool/tsh/common imports
	github.com/gravitational/teleport/lib/benchmark imports
	github.com/gravitational/teleport/lib/web imports
	github.com/gravitational/teleport/lib/reversetunnelclient imports
	github.com/gravitational/teleport/lib/proxy/peer imports
	github.com/gravitational/teleport/api/utils/grpc/stream: reading github.com/gravitational/teleport/api/go.mod at revision api/v0.0.0: unknown revision api/v0.0.0

I'm not sure if I'm missing something because I'm unfamiliar with how go packaging works, of if version 14 of the code at least, cannot be imported into a n external Go module.

[Tener]

You may want to consider using tsh aliases: https://goteleport.com/docs/connect-your-client/tsh/#custom-aliases-and-defaults

Depending on your exact use case these may work for you.