Teleport Infrastructure Identity Platform

What do you like best about the product?

I like how it uses single sign on and role based access, so permissions stay tight and traceable. It also records sessions automatically, which is great for audits and keeping things transparent. Overall, it simplifies infrastructure access while keeping security front and center.

What do you dislike about the product?

Setting it up initially was a bit complex, especially integrating with multiple cloud environments or SSO providers , it has a learning curve.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

What I really like about Teleport is how it uses Single Sign-On. Instead of managing separate passwords or SSH keys for every server, I can just log in once using my company account like through Google or Okta and get access to everything I need based on my role. It’s a lot more secure, and it also makes life easier when someone leaves the team because you don’t have to manually clean up access everywhere

What do you like best about the product?

what i like most about teleport is how easy it makes secure access feel. i don’t have to deal with managing a bunch of ssh keys or jumping thru hoops just to get into servers or k8s clusters. it just works, and that saves me a lot of time and headache. also love the audit logs and how it works with sso. really solid tool tbh.

What do you dislike about the product?

sometimes the initial setup can feel a bit confusing if you're new to access mgmt tools. had to read the docs a couple times to really get it right.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

before teleport, managing ssh keys and access was kinda messy — like people would forget to revoke access or we’d have shared creds floating around. teleport fixes all that with role-based access, sso, and session logs. now access is way more secure and i don’t have to manually track who has what. it saves time and helps us stay compliant without the usual headache.

What do you like best about the product?

I like that Teleport provides secure, certificate-based access to servers, databases, and Kubernetes clusters without needing a VPN. The session recording and audit logging features are incredibly useful for compliance and troubleshooting. It also integrates well with SSO providers and enforces strong identity-based access control, which helps simplify security across our infrastructure.

What do you dislike about the product?

The initial setup can be quite complex, especially for teams new to infrastructure-level access control. Some configuration options aren’t intuitive, and it can take time to understand how everything fits together—especially with self-hosted deployments. Also, while the documentation is detailed, it can feel overwhelming and sometimes lacks practical examples for specific use cases.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Teleport solves the problem of securely managing access to servers, databases, and Kubernetes without relying on VPNs or shared passwords. It uses certificate-based authentication and role-based access control to enhance security while simplifying user access. This improves our team’s productivity by enabling quick, secure connections and provides detailed audit logs for compliance and troubleshooting.

What do you like best about the product?

The tool itself was great for access management.

What do you dislike about the product?

Teleport has decided to end support for its community edition after pushing users to adopt it and build their ecosystem. See:

Anyone self-hosting CE Teleport now just got completely screwed over as they have been locked into a surprise ~$70/seat bill for enterprise edition (plus implementation fee, even though you're already hosting it and just need a license key now)! Or, you could rebuild your entire network identiy management system on short notice instead!

This is a huge middle finger to anyone who adopted their solution early on and helped build their ecosystem. There's clearly immense revenue pressure at Gravitational right now and I would absolutely expect to be continuouly screwed over by them in any business relationship after this move.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

It replaces SSH with a system that manages remote access with logging / auditing / user management / etc.

What do you like best about the product?

- Ease of use
- Upgrade process is smooth
- Provides useful audit information
- Greate UI for visualizing infrastructure

What do you dislike about the product?

Nothing major to report, but I would say making it easier to refesh the local cert data the agents store would be nice in case we need to change Teleport cluster names or whatnot.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Have one proxy to expose and authenicate to all of our Applications and services.