Simplify adding hosts page (#5830)

- Update the summary section at the top of the page
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- [Signing installers](#signing-installers)
- [Plain osquery](#plain-osquery)
Fleet is powered by the open source osquery tool. To add a host to Fleet, you must install osquery on this host.
The recommended way to install osquery and add your host to Fleet is with an osquery installer. Fleet provides the tools to generate an osquery installer with the `fleetctl package` command.
The recommended way to add your host to Fleet is with an osquery installer. Fleet provides the tools to generate an osquery installer with the `fleetctl package` command.
To use the `fleetctl package` command, you must first install the `fleetctl` command-line tool. Instructions for installing `fleetctl` can be found on [here](https://fleetdm.com/get-started)
Fleet supports other methods for adding your hosts to Fleet such as the [plain osquery binaries](#plain-osquery) or [Kolide Osquery Launcher](https://github.com/kolide/launcher/blob/master/docs/launcher.md#connecting-to-fleet).
## Osquery installer
To create an osquery installer, you can use the `fleetctl package` command.
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| --help, -h | show help (default: `false`) |
Fleet supports other methods for adding your hosts to Fleet such as the [plain osquery binaries](#plain-osquery) or [Kolide Osquery Launcher](https://github.com/kolide/launcher/blob/master/docs/launcher.md#connecting-to-fleet).
## Plain osquery
> If you'd like to use the native osqueryd binaries to connect to Fleet, this is enabled by using osquery's TLS API plugins that are principally documented on the official osquery wiki: http://osquery.readthedocs.io/en/stable/deployment/remote/. These plugins are very customizable and thus have a large configuration surface. Configuring osqueryd to communicate with Fleet is documented below in the "Native Osquery TLS Plugins" section.