Teleport provides connectivity, authentication, access controls and audit for infrastructure.
You might use Teleport to:
Set up single sign-on (SSO) for all of your cloud and on-prem infrastructure.
Protect access to servers, Kubernetes clusters, databases, Windows desktops, web applications, and cloud APIs without long-lived keys or passwords.
Establish secure tunnels to reach resources behind NATs and firewalls without VPNs or bastion hosts.
Record and audit activity across SSH, Kubernetes, database, RDP, and web sessions.
Apply consistent Role-Based and Attribute-Based Access Control (RBAC/ABAC) across users, machines, workloads, and resource types.
Enforce least privilege and Just-in-Time (JIT) access requests for elevated roles or sensitive systems.
Maintain a single identity and access layer for both human users and workloads.
Teleport works with SSH, Kubernetes, databases, RDP, cloud consoles, internal web services, Git repositories, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers.
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Introduction
Teleport includes an identity-aware access proxy, a CA that issues short-lived certificates, a unified access control system, and a tunneling system to access resources behind the firewall.
Teleport is a single Go binary that integrates with multiple protocols and cloud services, including
SSH nodes
Kubernetes clusters
PostgreSQL, MongoDB, CockroachDB and MySQL databases
Model Context Protocol
Internal Web apps
Windows Hosts
Networked servers
You can set up Teleport as a Linux daemon or a Kubernetes deployment.
Teleport focuses on best practices for infrastructure security, including:
No shared secrets such as SSH keys or Kubernetes tokens; Teleport uses certificate-based auth with automatic expiration for all protocols.
Multi-factor authentication (MFA) for everything.
Single sign-on (SSO) for everything via GitHub Auth, OpenID Connect, or SAML with endpoints like Okta or Microsoft Entra ID.
Session sharing for collaborative troubleshooting for issues.
Infrastructure introspection to view the status of every SSH node, database instance, Kubernetes cluster, or internal web app through the Teleport CLI or Web UI.
Teleport uses Go crypto. It is fully compatible with OpenSSH, sshd servers, and ssh clients, Kubernetes clusters and more.
Project Links
Description
Teleport Website
The official website of the project.
Documentation
Admin guide, user manual and more.
Features
Explore the complete list of Teleport capabilities.
Blog
Our blog where we publish Teleport news and helpful articles.
Forum
Ask us a setup question or post tutorials, feedback, or ideas.
Developer Tools
Dozens of free browser-based tools for code processing, cryptography, data transformation, and more.
Teleport Academy
How-to guides, best practices, and deep dives into topics like SSH, Kubernetes, MCP, and more.
Slack
Need help with your setup? Ping us in our Slack channel.
Cloud & Self-Hosted
Teleport Enterprise is a cloud-hosted option for teams that require easy and secure access to their computing environments.
Why We Built Teleport
While working together at Rackspace, the creators of Teleport noticed that most cloud users struggle with setting up and configuring infrastructure security. Many popular tools designed for this are complex to understand and expensive to maintain across modern, distributed computing infrastructure.
We decided to build a solution that's easy to use, understand, and scale. A real-time representation of all your servers in the same room as you, as if they were magically teleported. And thus, Teleport was born!
Today, Teleport is trusted by everyone from hobbyists to hyperscalers to simplify security across cloud CLIs and consoles, Kubernetes clusters, SSH servers, databases, internal web apps, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) used by AI agents.
Learn more about Teleport and our history
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