Description
Gravitational Teleport is a modern SSH server for remotely accessing clusters of Linux servers via SSH or HTTPS. It is intended to be used instead of sshd. Teleport enables teams to easily adopt the best SSH practices like:
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README
Read our Blog: https://goteleport.com/blog/
Read our Documentation: https://goteleport.com/docs/getting-started/
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Installing and Running
- Docker
- Building Teleport
- Why Did We Build Teleport?
- More Information
- Support and Contributing
- Is Teleport Secure and Production Ready?
- Who Built Teleport?
Introduction
Teleport is the easiest, most secure way to access all your infrastructure. Teleport is an identity-aware, multi-protocol access proxy which understands SSH, HTTPS, RDP, Kubernetes API, MySQL, MongoDB and PostgreSQL wire protocols.
On the server-side, Teleport is a single binary which enables convenient secure access to behind-NAT resources such as:
- SSH nodes - SSH works in browsers too!
- Kubernetes clusters
- PostgreSQL, MongoDB, CockroachDB and MySQL databases
- Internal Web apps
- Windows Hosts
- Networked servers
Teleport is trivial to set up as a Linux daemon or in a Kubernetes pod. It's rapidly
replacing legacy sshd
-based setups at organizations who need:
- Developer convenience of having instant secure access to everything they need across many environments and cloud providers.
- Audit log with session recording/replay for multiple protocols
- Easily manage trust between teams, organizations and data centers.
- Role-based access control (RBAC) and flexible access workflows (one-time access requests)
In addition to its hallmark features, Teleport is interesting for smaller teams because it facilitates easy adoption of the best infrastructure security practices like:
- No need to manage shared secrets such as SSH keys: Teleport uses certificate-based access with automatic certificate expiration time for all protocols.
- Two-factor authentication (2FA) for everything.
- Collaboratively troubleshoot issues through session sharing.
- Single sign-on (SSO) for everything via Github Auth, OpenID Connect, or SAML with endpoints like Okta or Active Directory.
- Infrastructure introspection: Use Teleport via the CLI or Web UI to view the status of every SSH node, database instance, Kubernetes cluster, or internal web app.
Teleport is built upon the high-quality Golang SSH
implementation. It is fully compatible with OpenSSH,
sshd
servers, and ssh
clients.
Project Links | Description |
---|---|
Teleport Website | The official website of the project. |
Documentation | Admin guide, user manual and more. |
Demo Video | 3-minute video overview of Teleport. |
Blog | Our blog where we publish Teleport news. |
Forum | Ask us a setup question, post your tutorial, feedback, or idea on our forum. |
Slack | Need help with your setup? Ping us in our Slack channel. |
Cloud-hosted | We offer Enterprise with a Cloud-hosted option. For teams that require easy and secure access to their computing environments. |
Installing and Running
| Follow the Installation Guide
Download the latest binary release,
unpack the .tar.gz and run sudo ./install
. This will copy Teleport binaries into
/usr/local/bin
.
Then you can run Teleport as a single-node cluster:
sudo teleport start
In a production environment, Teleport must run as root
. For testing or non-production environments, run it as the $USER
:
chown $USER /var/lib/teleport
- In this case, you will not be able to log in as another user.
Docker
| Follow the Docker-Compose Getting Started Guide
Deploy Teleport
If you wish to deploy Teleport inside a Docker container:
# This command will pull the Teleport container image for version 8
docker pull public.ecr.aws/gravitational/teleport:8
View latest tags on Amazon ECR Public | gravitational/teleport
For Local Testing and Development
Follow the instructions in the [docker/README](docker/README.md) file.
To run a full test suite locally, see [the test dependencies list](BUILD_macos.md#local-tests-dependencies)
Building Teleport
The teleport
repository contains the Teleport daemon binary (written in Go)
and a web UI written in Javascript (a git submodule located in the webassets/
directory).
If your intention is to build and deploy for use in a production infrastructure
a released tag should be used. The default branch, master
, is the current
development branch for an upcoming major version. Get the latest release tags
listed at https://goteleport.com/download/ and then use that tag in the git clone
.
For example git clone https://github.com/gravitational/teleport.git -b v9.1.2
gets release v9.1.2.
Dockerized Build
It is often easiest to build with Docker, which ensures that all required tooling is available for the build. To execute a dockerized build, ensure that docker is installed and running, and execute:
make -C build.assets build-binaries
Local Build
Dependencies
Ensure you have installed correct versions of necessary dependencies:
Go
version from go.mod- If you wish to build the Rust-powered features like Desktop Access, see the
Rust
andCargo
version in build.assets/Makefile (search forRUST_VERSION
) - For
tsh
version >10.x
with FIDO support, you will needlibfido
andopenssl 1.1
installed locally
For an example of Dev Environment setup on a Mac, see [these instructions](BUILD_macos.md).
Perform a build
Important
- The Go compiler is somewhat sensitive to the amount of memory: you will need at least 1GB of virtual memory to compile Teleport. A 512MB instance without swap will not work.
- This will build the latest version of Teleport, regardless of whether it is stable. If you want to build the latest stable release, run
git checkout
andgit submodule update --recursive
to the corresponding tag (for example,- run
git checkout v8.0.0
) before performing a build.
Get the source
git clone https://github.com/gravitational/teleport.git
cd teleport
To perform a build
make full
To build tsh
with Apple TouchID support enabled:
Important
tsh
binaries with Touch ID support are only functional using binaries signed with Teleport's Apple Developer ID and notarized by Apple. If you are a Teleport maintainer, ask the team for access.
make build/tsh TOUCHID=yes
To build tsh
with libfido
:
make build/tsh FIDO2=dynamic
On a Mac, with
libfido
andopenssl 1.1
installed viahomebrew
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="$(brew --prefix [email protected])/lib/pkgconfig" make build/tsh FIDO2=dynamic
Build output and running locally
If the build succeeds, the installer will place the binaries in the build
directory.
Before starting, create default data directories:
sudo mkdir -p -m0700 /var/lib/teleport
sudo chown $USER /var/lib/teleport
Web UI
The Teleport Web UI resides in the Gravitational Webapps repo.
Rebuilding Web UI for development
To clone this repository and rebuild the Teleport UI package, run the following commands:
git clone [email protected]:gravitational/webapps.git
cd webapps
make build-teleport
Then you can replace Teleport Web UI files with the files from the newly-generated /dist
folder.
To enable speedy iterations on the Web UI, you can run a local web-dev server.
You can also tell Teleport to load the Web UI assets from the source directory.
To enable this behavior, set the environment variable DEBUG=1
and rebuild with the default target:
# Run Teleport as a single-node cluster in development mode:
DEBUG=1 ./build/teleport start -d
Keep the server running in this mode, and make your UI changes in /dist
directory.
For instructions about how to update the Web UI, read the webapps
README file.
Updating Web UI assets
After you commit a change to the webapps
repo, you need to update the Web UI
assets in the webassets/
git submodule.
Run make update-webassets
to update the webassets
repo and create a PR for
teleport
to update its git submodule.
You will need to have the gh
utility installed on your system for the script
to work. For installation instructions, read the GitHub CLI installation documentation.
Managing dependencies
All dependencies are managed using Go modules. Here are the instructions for some common tasks:
Add a new dependency
Latest version:
go get github.com/new/dependency
and update the source to use this dependency.
To get a specific version, use go get github.com/new/dependency@version
instead.
Set dependency to a specific version
go get github.com/new/dependency@version
Update dependency to the latest version
go get -u github.com/new/dependency
Update all dependencies
go get -u all
Debugging dependencies
Why is a specific package imported?
go mod why $pkgname
Why is a specific module imported?
go mod why -m $modname
Why is a specific version of a module imported?
go mod graph | grep $modname
Why did We Build Teleport?
The Teleport creators used to work together at Rackspace. We noticed that most cloud computing users struggle with setting up and configuring infrastructure security because popular tools, while flexible, are complex to understand and expensive to maintain. Additionally, most organizations use multiple infrastructure form factors such as several cloud providers, multiple cloud accounts, servers in colocation, and even smart devices. Some of those devices run on untrusted networks, behind third-party firewalls. This only magnifies complexity and increases operational overhead.
We had a choice, either start a security consulting business or build a solution that's dead-easy to use and understand. A real-time representation of all of your servers in the same room as you, as if they were magically teleported. Thus, Teleport was born!
More Information
Support and Contributing
We offer a few different options for support. First of all, we try to provide clear and comprehensive documentation. The docs are also in Github, so feel free to create a PR or file an issue if you have ideas for improvements. If you still have questions after reviewing our docs, you can also:
- Join Teleport Discussions to ask questions. Our engineers are available there to help you.
- If you want to contribute to Teleport or file a bug report/issue, you can create an issue here in Github.
- If you are interested in Teleport Enterprise or more responsive support during a POC, we can also create a dedicated Slack channel for you during your POC. You can reach out to us through our website to arrange for a POC.
Is Teleport Secure and Production Ready?
Teleport is used by leading companies to enable engineers to quickly access any computing resource anywhere. Teleport has completed several security audits from the nationally recognized technology security companies. We make some of our audits public, view our latest audit reports. We are comfortable with the use of Teleport from a security perspective.
You can see the list of companies who use Teleport in production on the Teleport product page.
You can find the latest stable Teleport build on our Releases page.
Who Built Teleport?
Teleport was created by Gravitational Inc. We have built Teleport by borrowing from our previous experiences at Rackspace. Learn more about Teleport and our history.
*Note that all licence references and agreements mentioned in the Gravitational Teleport README section above
are relevant to that project's source code only.