Teleport is an infrastructure access platform that brings together secure connectivity, authentication, authorisation and auditing. It provides a central point for managing access to SSH servers and other infrastructure resources, reducing the need to distribute long-lived credentials across multiple systems.
The software combines an identity-aware proxy, certificate authority and access control system with encrypted tunnels that connect users to resources behind firewalls and NAT devices. Teleport is particularly useful for organisations managing multiple servers or distributed environments, where consistent authentication policies and detailed records of administrative activity are important.
Rather than treating SSH connections as isolated sessions, Teleport provides a common identity and security framework for infrastructure access.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Issues short-lived SSH certificates through an integrated certificate authority, reducing reliance on persistent SSH keys.
- Provides an identity-aware access proxy and reverse tunnels for connecting to resources behind NAT devices and firewalls.
- Supports centralised role-based and attribute-based access controls, allowing administrators to define permissions for users and resources.
- Records SSH sessions and maintains audit logs that can be used to investigate administrative activity.
- Supports GitHub-based single sign-on in its source-available community functionality; other identity provider integrations depend on the edition.
- Provides command-line and web interfaces for viewing authorised infrastructure resources and initiating connections.
- Extends its access model beyond SSH to Kubernetes clusters, databases, internal web applications and other infrastructure services.
- Supports time-limited access requests and additional security controls, with some capabilities restricted to commercial editions.
Website: github.com/gravitational/teleport
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Developer: Teleport
License: GNU Affero General Public License v3.0
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