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Question

I am using tugboat to manage droplets from DigitalOcean.

One can use tugboat ssh <NAME> to ssh into a droplet.

With the standard SSH command, one can invoke compression with the -C flag:

ssh -C user@host

Is there a way to have tugboat compress its SSH stream?

Answer

It looks in the tugboat source as though you can configure ~/.tugboat to include an ssh_opt line, like so:

ssh:
  ssh_user: user
  ssh_key_path: "~/.ssh/id_rsa"
  ssh_port: '22'
  ssh_opts: '-C'

However, I can't tell whether or not this line is being used when the ssh command is invoked.