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Gravitational Teleport

Project Links
Teleport Website
Documentation

Introduction

Gravitational Teleport ("Teleport") is a tool for remotely accessing isolated clusters of Linux servers via SSH or HTTPS.

Unlike traditional key-based access, Teleport enables teams to easily adopt the following practices:

• Avoid key distribution and trust on first use issues by using auto-expiring keys signed by a cluster certificate authority (CA).
• Enforce 2nd factor authentication.
• Connect to clusters located behind firewalls without direct Internet access via SSH bastions.
• Record and replay SSH sessions for knowledge sharing and auditing purposes.
• Collaboratively troubleshoot issues through session sharing.
• Discover online servers and Docker containers within a cluster with dynamic node labels.

Teleport is built on top of the high-quality Golang SSH implementation and it is fully compatible with OpenSSH.

Installing and Running

Download the latest binary release, unpack the .tar.gz and run sudo make install. This will copy Teleport binaries into /usr/local/bin and the web assets to /usr/local/share/teleport.

Then you can run Teleport as a single-node cluster:

teleport start 

Why Build Teleport?

Mature tech companies with significant infrastructure footprints tend to implement most of these patterns internally. Teleport allows smaller companies without significant in-house SSH expertise to easily adopt them, as well. Teleport comes with an accesible Web UI and a very permissive Apache 2.0 license to facilitate adoption and use.

Being a complete standalone tool, Teleport can be used as a software library enabling trust management in complex multi-cluster, multi-region scenarios across many teams within multiple organizations.

More Information

• Quick Start Guide
• Teleport Architecture
• Admin Manual
• User Manual
• FAQ

Contributing

The best way to contribute is to create issues or pull requests right here on Github. You can also reach the Gravitational team through their website

Building

Teleport is written in Go. If you have Golang 1.5 and newer, simply clone this repository and run make. You'll have to create /var/lib/teleport directory and then you can start Teleport as a single-node cluster in development mode: build/teleport start -d

NOTE: The Go compiler is somewhat sensitive to amount of memory: you will need at least 1GB of virtual memory to compile Teleport. 512MB instance without swap will not work.

Status

Teleport is not ready to be used in production yet. Teleport is undergoing a comprehensive independent security audit.

Who Built Teleport?

Teleport was created by Gravitational Inc. We have built Teleport by borrowing from our previous experiences at Rackspace. It has been extracted from Gravity, our system for helping our clients to deploy and remotely manage their SaaS applications on many cloud regions or even on-premise.

Documentation

Index

• Constants
• type Role
  • func (r *Role) Check() error
  • func (r *Role) Set(v string) error
  • func (r *Role) String() string
• type Roles
  • func (roles Roles) Include(role Role) bool

Constants

const (
	// BoltBackendType is a BoltDB backend
	BoltBackendType = "bolt"

	// ETCDBackendType is etcd backend
	ETCDBackendType = "etcd"

	// Component indicates a component of teleport, used for logging
	Component = "component"

	// ComponentFields stores component-specific fields
	ComponentFields = "fields"

	// ComponentReverseTunnel is reverse tunnel agent and server
	// that together establish a bi-directional SSH revers tunnel
	// to bypass firewall restrictions
	ComponentReverseTunnel = "reversetunnel"

	// ComponentNode is SSH node (SSH server serving requests)
	ComponentNode = "node"

	// ComponentProxy is SSH proxy (SSH server forwarding connections)
	ComponentProxy = "proxy"

	// ComponentTunClient is a tunnel client
	ComponentTunClient = "tunclient"

	// DefaultTimeout sets read and wrie timeouts for SSH server ops
	DefaultTimeout time.Duration = 30 * time.Second

	// DebugOutputEnvVar tells tests to use verbose debug output
	DebugOutputEnvVar = "TELEPORT_DEBUG_TESTS"
)

const ForeverTTL time.Duration = 0

ForeverTTL means that object TTL will not expire unless deleted

Types

type Role

type Role string

Role identifies the role of SSH server connection

const (
	// RoleAuth is for teleport auth server (authority, authentication and authorization)
	RoleAuth Role = "Auth"
	// RoleUser is a role for teleport SSH user
	RoleUser Role = "User"
	// RoleWeb is for web access users
	RoleWeb Role = "Web"
	// RoleNode is a role for SSH node in the cluster
	RoleNode Role = "Node"
	// RoleProxy is a role for SSH proxy in the cluster
	RoleProxy Role = "Proxy"
	// RoleAdmin is admin role
	RoleAdmin Role = "Admin"
	// RoleProvisionToken is a role for nodes authenticated using provisioning tokens
	RoleProvisionToken Role = "ProvisionToken"
	// RoleSignup is for first time signing up users
	RoleSignup Role = "Signup"
)

func (*Role) Check

func (r *Role) Check() error

Check checks if this a a valid role value, returns nil if it's ok, false otherwise

func (*Role) Set

func (r *Role) Set(v string) error

Set sets the value of the role from string, used to integrate with CLI tools

func (*Role) String

func (r *Role) String() string

String returns debug-friendly representation of this role

type Roles

type Roles []Role

func (Roles) Include

func (roles Roles) Include(role Role) bool

Includes returns 'true' if a given list of roles includes a given role