Hello Teleport Community,
This will be the last newsletter for the year. Over the past year, I’ve written 20 newsletters and today’s newsletter is a recap of some of the top things shipped and worked on over the past year.
We released three new major versions of Teleport: Teleport 9, 10 and 11. In 2022 we passed 10k commits to our open-source Teleport repo, have fixed hundreds of GitHub issues, and merged thousands of pull requests. We added 2,390 stargazers and have had some great conversations on our GitHub discussion board.
Here are some top things we launched:
Launched Teleport Connect for Mac, Windows, and Linux
Teleport Connect is a Developer-friendly browser for cloud infrastructure. It lets teams easily use Teleport without having to configure terminals, making rolling out Teleport in organizations with lots of distributions easy. Since launching at the start of the year, Teleport Connect has added support for Kubernetes, Databases and Passwordless.
New databases added to Teleport
The team has been busy adding a range of new databases to Teleport, along with improving our MySQL and Postgres support. These are a few other databases added this year:
View our Docs for a list of all supported databases.
Kubernetes
Our Kubernetes integration continues to mature with the market. This year we added automatic discovery and enrollment of EKS/AKS clusters for Kubernetes Access, which makes it easier to onboard Kubernetes clusters at scale. The removal of the persistent storage requirement for Helm charts fixed a long-standing request to let users leverage dynamic join tokens in Helm Charts.
SSH & Server Access
SSH access is Teleport’s most mature protocol, but we’ve still made a couple of nice additions this year. Firstly, we added automatic user provisioning, replaced SCP with SFTP and integrated with auditd.
Teleport core features
Along with additions to services, Teleport has made a few key improvements to the core product. For 2022, this was the addition of passwordess and MachineID. Passwordless takes advantage of WebAuthn to provide passwordless and usernameless authentication for Teleport, letting users log in with TouchID, or even FaceID with passkey support.
Machine ID lets teams give the same identity-based benefits of Teleport but for machines. For example, instead of using SSH pub/private keys, you can use Teleport Machine ID to obtain short-lived certificates.
Teleport Enterprise features:
The Teleport team has continued to add a bunch of new features into the enterprise version. It was great to meet many enterprise customers at our first user conference Teleport Connect. To catch up, you can join a replay on Jan 26th.
These are some new features added in 2022.
Thank you!
Lastly, we would like to thank you. We couldn’t do this without you. Thank you for joining our Slack community, sharing stories of success and creating detailed GitHub issues and bug reports.
Regards, and Happy Holidays.
From Ben and the whole Teleport Team!
