Teleport
Certificate authority and access plane for SSH, Kubernetes, web applications, and databases.
High commit volume, frequent releases and growing activity.
Commit activity more than 95% of tracked projects; popularity more than 88%. How this is calculated.
Commits, last 11 months
| Stars | 21k |
|---|---|
| Latest release | v18.10.0 · 9 Jul 2026 |
| Repo updated | 25 Aug 2026 |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 |
| Built with | Go, Docker, K8S |
Is Teleport actively maintained?
Teleport is under active development: 3825 commits landed over the last 11 months, averaging roughly 355 commits a month in the most recent quarter.
The most recent tagged release, v18.10.0, is about 3 months old.
Of the 77 projects we track in Miscellaneous, Teleport ranks #3 by health score — in the top quarter of its category.
What Teleport actually does
Teleport acts as a unified access plane and certificate authority, managing authentication and connection permissions for infrastructure targets such as SSH servers, Kubernetes clusters, databases, and web applications. It issues short-lived credentials rather than relying on static passwords or long-lived keys, centralising entry control across distributed environments.
Best fit: Engineering teams managing diverse, distributed infrastructure who need granular audit trails and strict identity-based access controls.
Worth knowing: Operating a central certificate authority creates a single point of failure and a high-value security target, requiring careful key management and high availability planning.
Deployment notes
Because the application is packaged for container and Kubernetes environments, you will typically need to configure persistent storage for audit logs and state, alongside TLS termination at your network edge.
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