
Teleport
Database Access with AWS DynamoDB
- Version 15.x
- Version 14.x
- Version 13.x
- Version 12.x
- Older Versions
- Available for:
- OpenSource
- Team
- Cloud
- Enterprise
Teleport can provide secure access to AWS DynamoDB via the Teleport Database Service. This allows for fine-grained access control through Teleport's RBAC.
In this guide, you will:
- Configure an AWS DynamoDB database with IAM authentication.
- Join the AWS DynamoDB database to your Teleport cluster.
- Connect to the AWS DynamoDB database via the Teleport Database Service.
Prerequisites
- AWS account with DynamoDB databases.
- IAM permissions to create IAM roles.
aws
Command Line Interface (CLI) tool installed in$PATH
.
-
A running Teleport cluster. For details on how to set this up, see the Getting Started guide.
-
The
tctl
admin tool andtsh
client tool version >= 14.2.0.See Installation for details.
To check version information, run the tctl version
and tsh version
commands.
For example:
tctl versionTeleport v14.2.0 git:api/14.0.0-gd1e081e go1.21
tsh versionTeleport v14.2.0 go1.21
Proxy version: 14.2.0Proxy: teleport.example.com
-
A Teleport Team account. If you don't have an account, sign up to begin your free trial.
-
The Enterprise
tctl
admin tool andtsh
client tool, version >= 14.1.3.You can download these tools from the Cloud Downloads page.
To check version information, run the tctl version
and tsh version
commands.
For example:
tctl versionTeleport Enterprise v14.1.3 git:api/14.0.0-gd1e081e go1.21
tsh versionTeleport v14.1.3 go1.21
Proxy version: 14.1.3Proxy: teleport.example.com
-
A running Teleport Enterprise cluster. For details on how to set this up, see the Enterprise Getting Started guide.
-
The Enterprise
tctl
admin tool andtsh
client tool version >= 14.2.0.You can download these tools by visiting your Teleport account workspace.
To check version information, run the tctl version
and tsh version
commands.
For example:
tctl versionTeleport Enterprise v14.2.0 git:api/14.0.0-gd1e081e go1.21
tsh versionTeleport v14.2.0 go1.21
Proxy version: 14.2.0Proxy: teleport.example.com
-
A Teleport Enterprise Cloud account. If you don't have an account, sign up to begin a free trial of Teleport Team and upgrade to Teleport Enterprise Cloud.
-
The Enterprise
tctl
admin tool andtsh
client tool version >= 14.1.3.You can download these tools from the Cloud Downloads page.
To check version information, run the tctl version
and tsh version
commands.
For example:
tctl versionTeleport Enterprise v14.1.3 git:api/14.0.0-gd1e081e go1.21
tsh versionTeleport v14.1.3 go1.21
Proxy version: 14.1.3Proxy: teleport.example.com
- A host, e.g., an EC2 instance, where you will run the Teleport Database Service. This guide assumes an EC2 instance when creating and applying IAM roles, and must be adjusted accordingly for custom configurations.
- To check that you can connect to your Teleport cluster, sign in with
tsh login
, then verify that you can runtctl
commands using your current credentials.tctl
is supported on macOS and Linux machines. For example:If you can connect to the cluster and run thetsh login --proxy=teleport.example.com --user=[email protected]tctl statusCluster teleport.example.com
Version 14.2.0
CA pin sha256:abdc1245efgh5678abdc1245efgh5678abdc1245efgh5678abdc1245efgh5678
tctl status
command, you can use your current credentials to run subsequenttctl
commands from your workstation. If you host your own Teleport cluster, you can also runtctl
commands on the computer that hosts the Teleport Auth Service for full permissions.
This guide provides an example configuration of IAM access roles as a model, and uses an EC2 instance to serve the Teleport Database Service. The level of access provided may not suit your needs, or may not fit your organization's access conventions. You should adjust the AWS IAM permissions to fit your needs.
Step 1/4. Create IAM roles for DynamoDB access
The setup described in this guide requires two IAM roles:
- One associated with the EC2 instance running the Teleport Database Service, which lets it assume additional roles granted to the user.
- One that can be assumed by the EC2 instance role and grants access to DynamoDB services to users.
EC2 instance role
Visit the IAM > Roles page of the AWS Console, then press "Create Role". Under Trusted entity type select "AWS service". Under Use case select "EC2", then click Next.
On the "Add Permissions" page, you can simply click Next since this role does not require any permissions. In this guide, we will use the example name TeleportDatabaseService
for this role. Once you have chosen a name, click Create Role to complete the process.
DynamoDB access role
Navigate back to the Roles page and create a new role. Select the "AWS account" option, which creates a default trust policy to allow other entities in this account to assume this role:
Click Next. Find the AWS-managed policy AmazonDynamoDBFullAccess
and then select the policy:
The AmazonDynamoDBFullAccess
policy may grant more permissions than desired.
If you want to use a different IAM policy to reduce permissions, refer to
Managing access permissions to your Amazon DynamoDB
Resources
for more information.
Click Next. On the next page, enter a role name. In this guide we'll use
the example name ExampleTeleportDynamoDBRole
for this role.
Under "Select trusted entities", update the JSON to allow the TeleportDatabaseService
role to assume this role:
{
"Version": "2012-10-17",
"Statement": [
{
"Effect": "Allow",
"Principal": {
"AWS": [
"arn:aws:iam::abcd1234-this-is-an-example:role/TeleportDatabaseService"
]
},
"Action": "sts:AssumeRole",
"Condition": {}
}
]
}
Finally, click Create Role.
Step 2/4. Configure the Teleport IAM role mapping
The next step is to give your Teleport users permissions to assume AWS IAM roles when accessing AWS resources through your Teleport cluster.
You can do this by creating a Teleport role with the db_users
field
listing the IAM role ARN created in the previous step. Create a file called
aws-dynamodb-access.yaml
with the following content:
kind: role
version: v7
metadata:
name: aws-dynamodb-access
spec:
allow:
db_labels:
'*': '*'
db_users:
- 'ExampleTeleportDynamoDBRole'
Create the new role:
tctl create -f aws-dynamodb-access.yaml
Assign the aws-dynamodb-access
role to your Teleport user by running the appropriate
commands for your authentication provider:
-
Retrieve your local user's configuration resource:
tctl get users/$(tsh status -f json | jq -r '.active.username') > out.yaml -
Edit
out.yaml
, addingaws-dynamodb-access
to the list of existing roles:roles: - access - auditor - editor + - aws-dynamodb-access
-
Apply your changes:
tctl create -f out.yaml -
Sign out of the Teleport cluster and sign in again to assume the new role.
-
Retrieve your
github
authentication connector:tctl get github/github --with-secrets > github.yamlNote that the
--with-secrets
flag adds the value ofspec.signing_key_pair.private_key
to thegithub.yaml
file. Because this key contains a sensitive value, you should remove the github.yaml file immediately after updating the resource. -
Edit
github.yaml
, addingaws-dynamodb-access
to theteams_to_roles
section.The team you should map to this role depends on how you have designed your organization's role-based access controls (RBAC). However, the team must include your user account and should be the smallest team possible within your organization.
Here is an example:
teams_to_roles: - organization: octocats team: admins roles: - access + - aws-dynamodb-access
-
Apply your changes:
tctl create -f github.yaml -
Sign out of the Teleport cluster and sign in again to assume the new role.
-
Retrieve your
saml
configuration resource:tctl get --with-secrets saml/mysaml > saml.yamlNote that the
--with-secrets
flag adds the value ofspec.signing_key_pair.private_key
to thesaml.yaml
file. Because this key contains a sensitive value, you should remove the saml.yaml file immediately after updating the resource. -
Edit
saml.yaml
, addingaws-dynamodb-access
to theattributes_to_roles
section.The attribute you should map to this role depends on how you have designed your organization's role-based access controls (RBAC). However, the group must include your user account and should be the smallest group possible within your organization.
Here is an example:
attributes_to_roles: - name: "groups" value: "my-group" roles: - access + - aws-dynamodb-access
-
Apply your changes:
tctl create -f saml.yaml -
Sign out of the Teleport cluster and sign in again to assume the new role.
-
Retrieve your
oidc
configuration resource:tctl get oidc/myoidc --with-secrets > oidc.yamlNote that the
--with-secrets
flag adds the value ofspec.signing_key_pair.private_key
to theoidc.yaml
file. Because this key contains a sensitive value, you should remove the oidc.yaml file immediately after updating the resource. -
Edit
oidc.yaml
, addingaws-dynamodb-access
to theclaims_to_roles
section.The claim you should map to this role depends on how you have designed your organization's role-based access controls (RBAC). However, the group must include your user account and should be the smallest group possible within your organization.
Here is an example:
claims_to_roles: - name: "groups" value: "my-group" roles: - access + - aws-dynamodb-access
-
Apply your changes:
tctl create -f oidc.yaml -
Sign out of the Teleport cluster and sign in again to assume the new role.
Step 3/4. Install the Teleport Database Service
Create an EC2 instance to host the Teleport Database Service, and attach the
TeleportDatabaseService
AWS IAM role to it. If you're hosting the service another
way, you must provide AWS credentials to the service - see AWS credentials
configuration
for more details.
For non-standard AWS regions such as AWS GovCloud (US) regions and AWS China
regions, please set the corresponding region in the AWS_REGION
environment
variable or in the AWS credentials file so that the Database Service can use
the correct STS endpoint.
Generate a token
For users with a lot of infrastructure in AWS, or who might create or recreate many instances, consider alternative methods for joining new EC2 instances running Teleport:
The Database Service requires a valid auth token to connect to the cluster. Generate
one by running the following command against your Teleport Auth Service and save
it in /tmp/token
on the node that will run the Database Service:
tctl tokens add --type=db
Install and start Teleport
Install Teleport on the host where you will run the Teleport Database Service. See our Installation page for options besides Linux servers.
Select an edition, then follow the instructions for that edition to install Teleport.
Teleport Edition
- Teleport Community Edition
- Teleport Team
- Teleport Enterprise
- Teleport Enterprise Cloud
curl https://goteleport.com/static/install.sh | bash -s 14.2.0
Add the Teleport repository to your repository list:
Download Teleport's PGP public key
sudo curl https://apt.releases.teleport.dev/gpg \-o /usr/share/keyrings/teleport-archive-keyring.ascSource variables about OS version
source /etc/os-releaseAdd the Teleport APT repository for cloud.
echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/teleport-archive-keyring.asc] \https://apt.releases.teleport.dev/${ID?} ${VERSION_CODENAME?} stable/cloud" \| sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/teleport.list > /dev/nullsudo apt-get updatesudo apt-get install teleport-ent-updater
Source variables about OS version
source /etc/os-releaseAdd the Teleport YUM repository for cloud.
First, get the OS major version from $VERSION_ID so this fetches the correct
package version.
VERSION_ID=$(echo $VERSION_ID | grep -Eo "^[0-9]+")sudo yum-config-manager --add-repo "$(rpm --eval "https://yum.releases.teleport.dev/$ID/$VERSION_ID/Teleport/%{_arch}/stable/cloud/teleport-yum.repo")"sudo yum install teleport-ent-updaterTip: Add /usr/local/bin to path used by sudo (so 'sudo tctl users add' will work as per the docs)
echo "Defaults secure_path = /sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin" > /etc/sudoers.d/secure_path
Source variables about OS version
source /etc/os-releaseAdd the Teleport YUM repository for cloud.
First, get the OS major version from $VERSION_ID so this fetches the correct
package version.
VERSION_ID=$(echo $VERSION_ID | grep -Eo "^[0-9]+")Use the dnf config manager plugin to add the teleport RPM repo
sudo dnf config-manager --add-repo "$(rpm --eval "https://yum.releases.teleport.dev/$ID/$VERSION_ID/Teleport/%{_arch}/stable/cloud/teleport-yum.repo")"Install teleport
sudo dnf install teleport-ent-updaterTip: Add /usr/local/bin to path used by sudo (so 'sudo tctl users add' will work as per the docs)
echo "Defaults secure_path = /sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin" > /etc/sudoers.d/secure_path
Source variables about OS version
source /etc/os-releaseAdd the Teleport Zypper repository for cloud.
First, get the OS major version from $VERSION_ID so this fetches the correct
package version.
VERSION_ID=$(echo $VERSION_ID | grep -Eo "^[0-9]+")Use Zypper to add the teleport RPM repo
sudo zypper addrepo --refresh --repo $(rpm --eval "https://zypper.releases.teleport.dev/$ID/$VERSION_ID/Teleport/%{_arch}/stable/cloud/teleport-zypper.repo")Install teleport
sudo zypper install teleport-ent-updater
OS repository channels
The following channels are available for APT, YUM, and Zypper repos. They may be used in place of
stable/v14
anywhere in the Teleport documentation.
Channel name | Description |
---|---|
stable/<major> | Receives releases for the specified major release line, i.e. v14 |
stable/cloud | Rolling channel that receives releases compatible with current Cloud version |
stable/rolling | Rolling channel that receives all published Teleport releases |
Before installing a teleport
binary with a version besides
v14, read our compatibility rules to ensure that the
binary is compatible with Teleport Cloud.
When running multiple teleport
binaries within a cluster, the following rules
apply:
- Patch and minor versions are always compatible, for example, any 8.0.1 component will work with any 8.0.3 component and any 8.1.0 component will work with any 8.3.0 component.
- Servers support clients that are 1 major version behind, but do not support
clients that are on a newer major version. For example, an 8.x.x Proxy Service
is compatible with 7.x.x resource services and 7.x.x
tsh
, but we don't guarantee that a 9.x.x resource service will work with an 8.x.x Proxy Service. This also means you must not attempt to upgrade from 6.x.x straight to 8.x.x. You must upgrade to 7.x.x first. - Proxy Services and resource services do not support Auth Services that are on
an older major version, and will fail to connect to older Auth Services by
default. This behavior can be overridden by passing
--skip-version-check
when starting Proxy Services and resource services.
Download Teleport's PGP public key
sudo curl https://apt.releases.teleport.dev/gpg \-o /usr/share/keyrings/teleport-archive-keyring.ascSource variables about OS version
source /etc/os-releaseAdd the Teleport APT repository for v14. You'll need to update this
file for each major release of Teleport.
echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/teleport-archive-keyring.asc] \https://apt.releases.teleport.dev/${ID?} ${VERSION_CODENAME?} stable/v14" \| sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/teleport.list > /dev/nullsudo apt-get updatesudo apt-get install teleport-ent
For FedRAMP/FIPS-compliant installations, install the teleport-ent-fips
package instead:
sudo apt-get install teleport-ent-fips
Source variables about OS version
source /etc/os-releaseAdd the Teleport YUM repository for v14. You'll need to update this
file for each major release of Teleport.
First, get the major version from $VERSION_ID so this fetches the correct
package version.
VERSION_ID=$(echo $VERSION_ID | grep -Eo "^[0-9]+")sudo yum-config-manager --add-repo "$(rpm --eval "https://yum.releases.teleport.dev/$ID/$VERSION_ID/Teleport/%{_arch}/stable/v14/teleport.repo")"sudo yum install teleport-entTip: Add /usr/local/bin to path used by sudo (so 'sudo tctl users add' will work as per the docs)
echo "Defaults secure_path = /sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin" > /etc/sudoers.d/secure_path
For FedRAMP/FIPS-compliant installations, install the teleport-ent-fips
package instead:
sudo yum install teleport-ent-fips
Source variables about OS version
source /etc/os-releaseAdd the Teleport Zypper repository for v14. You'll need to update this
file for each major release of Teleport.
First, get the OS major version from $VERSION_ID so this fetches the correct
package version.
VERSION_ID=$(echo $VERSION_ID | grep -Eo "^[0-9]+")Use zypper to add the teleport RPM repo
sudo zypper addrepo --refresh --repo $(rpm --eval "https://zypper.releases.teleport.dev/$ID/$VERSION_ID/Teleport/%{_arch}/stable/cloud/teleport-zypper.repo")sudo yum install teleport-entTip: Add /usr/local/bin to path used by sudo (so 'sudo tctl users add' will work as per the docs)
echo "Defaults secure_path = /sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin" > /etc/sudoers.d/secure_path
For FedRAMP/FIPS-compliant installations, install the teleport-ent-fips
package instead:
sudo yum install teleport-ent-fips
Source variables about OS version
source /etc/os-releaseAdd the Teleport YUM repository for v14. You'll need to update this
file for each major release of Teleport.
First, get the major version from $VERSION_ID so this fetches the correct
package version.
VERSION_ID=$(echo $VERSION_ID | grep -Eo "^[0-9]+")Use the dnf config manager plugin to add the teleport RPM repo
sudo dnf config-manager --add-repo "$(rpm --eval "https://yum.releases.teleport.dev/$ID/$VERSION_ID/Teleport/%{_arch}/stable/v14/teleport.repo")"Install teleport
sudo dnf install teleport-entTip: Add /usr/local/bin to path used by sudo (so 'sudo tctl users add' will work as per the docs)
echo "Defaults secure_path = /sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin" > /etc/sudoers.d/secure_path
For FedRAMP/FIPS-compliant installations, install the teleport-ent-fips
package instead:
sudo dnf install teleport-ent-fips
Source variables about OS version
source /etc/os-releaseAdd the Teleport Zypper repository.
First, get the OS major version from $VERSION_ID so this fetches the correct
package version.
VERSION_ID=$(echo $VERSION_ID | grep -Eo "^[0-9]+")Use Zypper to add the teleport RPM repo
sudo zypper addrepo --refresh --repo $(rpm --eval "https://zypper.releases.teleport.dev/$ID/$VERSION_ID/Teleport/%{_arch}/stable/v14/teleport-zypper.repo")Install teleport
sudo zypper install teleport-ent
For FedRAMP/FIPS-compliant installations, install the teleport-ent-fips
package instead:
sudo zypper install teleport-ent-fips
In the example commands below, update $SYSTEM_ARCH
with the appropriate
value (amd64
, arm64
, or arm
). All example commands using this variable
will update after one is filled out.
curl https://get.gravitational.com/teleport-ent-v14.2.0-linux-$SYSTEM_ARCH-bin.tar.gz.sha256<checksum> <filename>
curl -O https://cdn.teleport.dev/teleport-ent-v14.2.0-linux-$SYSTEM_ARCH-bin.tar.gzshasum -a 256 teleport-ent-v14.2.0-linux-$SYSTEM_ARCH-bin.tar.gzVerify that the checksums match
tar -xvf teleport-ent-v14.2.0-linux-$SYSTEM_ARCH-bin.tar.gzcd teleport-entsudo ./install
For FedRAMP/FIPS-compliant installations of Teleport Enterprise, package URLs will be slightly different:
curl https://get.gravitational.com/teleport-ent-v14.2.0-linux-$SYSTEM_ARCH-fips-bin.tar.gz.sha256<checksum> <filename>
curl -O https://cdn.teleport.dev/teleport-ent-v14.2.0-linux-$SYSTEM_ARCH-fips-bin.tar.gzshasum -a 256 teleport-ent-v14.2.0-linux-$SYSTEM_ARCH-fips-bin.tar.gzVerify that the checksums match
tar -xvf teleport-ent-v14.2.0-linux-$SYSTEM_ARCH-fips-bin.tar.gzcd teleport-entsudo ./install
OS repository channels
The following channels are available for APT, YUM, and Zypper repos. They may be used in place of
stable/v14
anywhere in the Teleport documentation.
Channel name | Description |
---|---|
stable/<major> | Receives releases for the specified major release line, i.e. v14 |
stable/cloud | Rolling channel that receives releases compatible with current Cloud version |
stable/rolling | Rolling channel that receives all published Teleport releases |
Add the Teleport repository to your repository list:
Download Teleport's PGP public key
sudo curl https://apt.releases.teleport.dev/gpg \-o /usr/share/keyrings/teleport-archive-keyring.ascSource variables about OS version
source /etc/os-releaseAdd the Teleport APT repository for cloud.
echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/teleport-archive-keyring.asc] \https://apt.releases.teleport.dev/${ID?} ${VERSION_CODENAME?} stable/cloud" \| sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/teleport.list > /dev/nullsudo apt-get updatesudo apt-get install teleport-ent-updater
Source variables about OS version
source /etc/os-releaseAdd the Teleport YUM repository for cloud.
First, get the OS major version from $VERSION_ID so this fetches the correct
package version.
VERSION_ID=$(echo $VERSION_ID | grep -Eo "^[0-9]+")sudo yum-config-manager --add-repo "$(rpm --eval "https://yum.releases.teleport.dev/$ID/$VERSION_ID/Teleport/%{_arch}/stable/cloud/teleport-yum.repo")"sudo yum install teleport-ent-updaterTip: Add /usr/local/bin to path used by sudo (so 'sudo tctl users add' will work as per the docs)
echo "Defaults secure_path = /sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin" > /etc/sudoers.d/secure_path
Source variables about OS version
source /etc/os-releaseAdd the Teleport YUM repository for cloud.
First, get the OS major version from $VERSION_ID so this fetches the correct
package version.
VERSION_ID=$(echo $VERSION_ID | grep -Eo "^[0-9]+")Use the dnf config manager plugin to add the teleport RPM repo
sudo dnf config-manager --add-repo "$(rpm --eval "https://yum.releases.teleport.dev/$ID/$VERSION_ID/Teleport/%{_arch}/stable/cloud/teleport-yum.repo")"Install teleport
sudo dnf install teleport-ent-updaterTip: Add /usr/local/bin to path used by sudo (so 'sudo tctl users add' will work as per the docs)
echo "Defaults secure_path = /sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin" > /etc/sudoers.d/secure_path
Source variables about OS version
source /etc/os-releaseAdd the Teleport Zypper repository for cloud.
First, get the OS major version from $VERSION_ID so this fetches the correct
package version.
VERSION_ID=$(echo $VERSION_ID | grep -Eo "^[0-9]+")Use Zypper to add the teleport RPM repo
sudo zypper addrepo --refresh --repo $(rpm --eval "https://zypper.releases.teleport.dev/$ID/$VERSION_ID/Teleport/%{_arch}/stable/cloud/teleport-zypper.repo")Install teleport
sudo zypper install teleport-ent-updater
OS repository channels
The following channels are available for APT, YUM, and Zypper repos. They may be used in place of
stable/v14
anywhere in the Teleport documentation.
Channel name | Description |
---|---|
stable/<major> | Receives releases for the specified major release line, i.e. v14 |
stable/cloud | Rolling channel that receives releases compatible with current Cloud version |
stable/rolling | Rolling channel that receives all published Teleport releases |
Before installing a teleport
binary with a version besides v14,
read our compatibility rules to ensure that the binary is compatible with
Teleport Enterprise Cloud.
When running multiple teleport
binaries within a cluster, the following rules
apply:
- Patch and minor versions are always compatible, for example, any 8.0.1 component will work with any 8.0.3 component and any 8.1.0 component will work with any 8.3.0 component.
- Servers support clients that are 1 major version behind, but do not support
clients that are on a newer major version. For example, an 8.x.x Proxy Service
is compatible with 7.x.x resource services and 7.x.x
tsh
, but we don't guarantee that a 9.x.x resource service will work with an 8.x.x Proxy Service. This also means you must not attempt to upgrade from 6.x.x straight to 8.x.x. You must upgrade to 7.x.x first. - Proxy Services and resource services do not support Auth Services that are on
an older major version, and will fail to connect to older Auth Services by
default. This behavior can be overridden by passing
--skip-version-check
when starting Proxy Services and resource services.
Create a file called /etc/teleport.yaml
with the following content:
version: v3
teleport:
nodename: CHANGEME
data_dir: /var/lib/teleport
proxy_server: teleport.example.com:443
auth_token: /tmp/token
db_service:
enabled: "yes"
# Lists statically registered databases proxied by this agent.
databases:
- name: "example-dynamodb"
protocol: "dynamodb"
# optional uri, if uri is set then AWS region can be extracted from it
# or if AWS region is already set then the regions must match.
# uri: "dynamodb.us-east-1.amazonaws.com:443"
static_labels:
env: "dev"
aws:
region: "us-east-1"
account_id: "abcd1234-this-is-an-example"
Substitute teleport.example.com
with the address of your Teleport Proxy Service.
(For Teleport Cloud customers, this will be similar to mytenant.teleport.sh
.)
The token generated should have been placed in the file /tmp/token
.
Configure the Teleport Database Service to start automatically when the host boots up by creating a systemd service for it. The instructions depend on how you installed the Teleport Database Service.
On the host where you will run the Teleport Database Service, enable and start Teleport:
sudo systemctl enable teleportsudo systemctl start teleport
On the host where you will run the Teleport Database Service, create a systemd service configuration for Teleport, enable the Teleport service, and start Teleport:
sudo teleport install systemd -o /etc/systemd/system/teleport.servicesudo systemctl enable teleportsudo systemctl start teleport
You can check the status of the Teleport Database Service with systemctl status teleport
and view its logs with journalctl -fu teleport
.
Step 4/4 Connect
Once the Database Service has started and joined the cluster, you can start connecting to your DynamoDB database.
Create a proxy tunnel:
tsh proxy db --tunnel --port 8000 --db-user=ExampleTeleportDynamoDBRole example-dynamodb
You can test the connection to the database through the aws
CLI:
aws dynamodb list-tables --endpoint-url=http://localhost:8000{ "TableNames": [ "table1", "table2", "table3" ]}
You can also connect to this database from the AWS NoSQL Workbench, as documented in our Database Access GUI Clients guide.
You can also use this tunnel for programmatic access. The example below uses the boto3
SDK from AWS:
$ python3
Python 3.10.4 (main, Mar 31 2022, 03:37:37) [Clang 12.0.0 ] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import boto3
>>> clt = boto3.client('dynamodb', endpoint_url='http://localhost:8000')
>>> res = clt.list_tables()
>>> print(res)
{'TableNames': *snip output*}
>>>
Next Steps
- See Dynamic Database Registration to learn how to use resource labels to keep Teleport up to date with accessible databases in your infrastructure.