This guide will help you to:
- Install Teleport
10.1.2
. - Set up Teleport to access your RDS instances and Aurora clusters.
- Connect to your databases through Teleport.
The following products are not compatible with Database Access as they don't support IAM authentication:
- Aurora Serverless v1.
- RDS MariaDB versions lower than 10.6.
It is recommended to upgrade Aurora Serverless v1 to Aurora Serverless v2 which does support IAM authentication.
Prerequisites
- AWS account with RDS and Aurora databases and permissions to create and attach IAM policies.
- A host, e.g., an EC2 instance, where you will run the Teleport Database Service.
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The
tctl
andtsh
client tools version >= 10.1.2.tctl versionTeleport v10.1.2 go1.18
tsh versionTeleport v10.1.2 go1.18
See Installation for details.
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A host where you will install the Teleport Auth Service and Proxy Service.
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A registered domain name.
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The
tctl
andtsh
client tools version >= 10.1.2, which you can download by visiting the customer portal.tctl versionTeleport v10.1.2 go1.18
tsh versionTeleport v10.1.2 go1.18
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A host where you will install the Teleport Auth Service and Proxy Service.
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A registered domain name.
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The
tctl
andtsh
client tools version >= 9.3.10.You can download these from Teleport Cloud Downloads.
tctl versionTeleport v9.3.10 go1.18
tsh versionTeleport v9.3.10 go1.18
Step 1/7. Install Teleport
On the host where you will run the Auth Service and Proxy Service, download the latest version of Teleport for your platform from our downloads page and follow the installation instructions.
Teleport requires a valid TLS certificate to operate and can fetch one automatically using Let's Encrypt's ACME protocol. Before Let's Encrypt can issue a TLS certificate for the Teleport Proxy host's domain, the ACME protocol must verify that an HTTPS server is reachable on port 443 of the host.
You can configure the Teleport Proxy service to complete the Let's Encrypt verification process when it starts up.
Run the following teleport configure
command, where tele.example.com
is the
domain name of your Teleport cluster and [email protected]
is an email address
used for notifications (you can use any domain):
teleport configure --acme [email protected] --cluster-name=tele.example.com > /etc/teleport.yaml
The --acme
, --acme-email
, and --cluster-name
flags will add the following
settings to your Teleport configuration file:
proxy_service:
enabled: "yes"
web_listen_addr: :443
public_addr: tele.example.com:443
acme:
enabled: "yes"
email: [email protected]
Port 443 on your Teleport Proxy Service host must allow traffic from all sources.
Next, start the Teleport Auth and Proxy Services:
sudo teleport start
If you do not have a Teleport Cloud account, use our signup form to get started. Teleport Cloud manages instances of the Proxy Service and Auth Service, and automatically issues and renews the required TLS certificate.
To connect to Teleport, log in to your cluster using tsh
, then use tctl
remotely:
tsh login --proxy=teleport.example.com [email protected]tctl statusCluster teleport.example.com
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You can run subsequent tctl
commands in this guide on your local machine.
For full privileges, you can also run tctl
commands on your Auth Service host.
To connect to Teleport, log in to your cluster using tsh
, then use tctl
remotely:
tsh login --proxy=myinstance.teleport.sh [email protected]tctl statusCluster myinstance.teleport.sh
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You must run subsequent tctl
commands in this guide on your local machine.
Step 2/7. Create a Teleport user
Create a local Teleport user with the built-in access
role:
tctl users add \ --roles=access \ --db-users=\* \ --db-names=\* \ alice
Flag | Description |
---|---|
--roles | List of roles to assign to the user. The builtin access role allows them to connect to any database server registered with Teleport. |
--db-users | List of database usernames the user will be allowed to use when connecting to the databases. A wildcard allows any user. |
--db-names | List of logical databases (aka schemas) the user will be allowed to connect to within a database server. A wildcard allows any database. |
Database names are only enforced for PostgreSQL and MongoDB databases.
For more detailed information about database access controls and how to restrict access see RBAC documentation.
Step 3/7. Create a Database Service configuration
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 Teleport on the host where you will run the Teleport Database Service:
Download Teleport's PGP public key
sudo curl https://deb.releases.teleport.dev/teleport-pubkey.asc \ -o /usr/share/keyrings/teleport-archive-keyring.ascSource variables about OS version
source /etc/os-releaseAdd the Teleport APT repository for v10. You'll need to update this
file for each major (breaking) release of Teleport.
Note: if using a fork of Debian or Ubuntu you may need to use '$ID_LIKE'
and the codename your distro was forked from instead of '$ID' and '$VERSION_CODENAME'.
Supported versions are listed here: https://github.com/gravitational/teleport/blob/master/build.assets/tooling/cmd/build-apt-repos/main.go#L26
echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/teleport-archive-keyring.asc] \ https://apt.releases.teleport.dev/${ID?} ${VERSION_CODENAME?} stable/v10" \| sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/teleport.list > /dev/nullsudo apt-get updatesudo apt-get install teleport
sudo yum-config-manager --add-repo https://rpm.releases.teleport.dev/teleport.reposudo yum install teleportOptional: Using DNF on newer distributions
$ sudo dnf config-manager --add-repo https://rpm.releases.teleport.dev/teleport.repo
$ sudo dnf install teleport
curl https://get.gravitational.com/teleport-v10.1.2-linux-amd64-bin.tar.gz.sha256<checksum> <filename>
curl -O https://get.gravitational.com/teleport-v10.1.2-linux-amd64-bin.tar.gzshasum -a 256 teleport-v10.1.2-linux-amd64-bin.tar.gzVerify that the checksums match
tar -xzf teleport-v10.1.2-linux-amd64-bin.tar.gzcd teleportsudo ./install
curl https://get.gravitational.com/teleport-v10.1.2-linux-arm-bin.tar.gz.sha256<checksum> <filename>
curl -O https://get.gravitational.com/teleport-v10.1.2-linux-arm-bin.tar.gzshasum -a 256 teleport-v10.1.2-linux-arm-bin.tar.gzVerify that the checksums match
tar -xzf teleport-v10.1.2-linux-arm-bin.tar.gzcd teleportsudo ./install
curl https://get.gravitational.com/teleport-v10.1.2-linux-arm64-bin.tar.gz.sha256<checksum> <filename>
curl -O https://get.gravitational.com/teleport-v10.1.2-linux-arm64-bin.tar.gzshasum -a 256 teleport-v10.1.2-linux-arm64-bin.tar.gzVerify that the checksums match
tar -xzf teleport-v10.1.2-linux-arm64-bin.tar.gzcd teleportsudo ./install
Using this APT repo may result in breaking upgrades upon "apt upgrade" as all major versions will be
published under the same component. We recommend following the instructions in the
"Debian/Ubuntu (DEB)" tab instead.
Download Teleport's PGP public key
sudo curl https://deb.releases.teleport.dev/teleport-pubkey.asc \ -o /usr/share/keyrings/teleport-archive-keyring.ascAdd the Teleport APT repository
echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/teleport-archive-keyring.asc] https://deb.releases.teleport.dev/ stable main" \| sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/teleport.list > /dev/nullsudo apt-get updatesudo apt-get install teleport
Create the Database Service configuration:
teleport db configure create \ -o file \ --proxy=teleport.example.com:3080 \ --token=/tmp/token \ --rds-discovery=us-west-1
teleport db configure create \ -o file \ --proxy=mytenant.teleport.sh:443 \ --token=/tmp/token \ --rds-discovery=us-west-1
The command will generate a Database Service configuration with RDS/Aurora
database auto-discovery enabled on the us-west-1
region and place it at the
/etc/teleport.yaml
location.
Step 4/7. Create an IAM policy for Teleport
Teleport needs AWS IAM permissions to be able to:
- Discover and register RDS instances and Aurora clusters.
- Configure IAM authentication for them.
Teleport can bootstrap IAM permissions for the Database Service based on its
configuration using the teleport db configure bootstrap
command. You can use
this command in automatic or manual mode:
- In automatic mode, Teleport will attempt to create appropriate IAM policies and attach them to the specified IAM identity (user or role). This requires IAM permissions to create and attach IAM policies.
- In manual mode, Teleport will print required IAM policies. You can then create and attach them manually using the AWS management console.
AWS Credentials are only required if you’re running the command in "automatic" mode. The command uses the default credential provider chain to find AWS credentials. See Specifying Credentials for more information.
Run one of the following commands on your Database Service node:
Use this command to bootstrap the permissions automatically when your Teleport Database Service runs as an IAM user (for example, uses an AWS credentials file).
teleport db configure bootstrap -c /etc/teleport.yaml --attach-to-user TeleportUser
Use this command to bootstrap the permissions automatically when your Teleport Database Service runs as an IAM role (for example, on an EC2 instance with an attached IAM role).
teleport db configure bootstrap -c /etc/teleport.yaml --attach-to-role TeleportRole
Use this command to display required IAM policies which you will then create in your AWS console:
teleport db configure bootstrap -c /etc/teleport.yaml --manual
See the full bootstrap
command
reference.
Step 5/7. Start the Database Service
Start the Database Service:
teleport start --config=/etc/teleport.yaml
The Database Service will discover all RDS instances and Aurora clusters according to the configuration and register them in the cluster. In addition to the primary endpoints of the discovered Aurora clusters, their reader and custom endpoints will also be registered.
The Database Service will also attempt to enable IAM auth and configure IAM access policies for the discovered databases. Keep in mind that AWS IAM changes may not propagate immediately and can take a few minutes to come into effect.
The Teleport Database Service uses the default credential provider chain to find AWS credentials. See Specifying Credentials for more information.
Step 6/7. Create a database IAM user
Database users must allow IAM authentication in order to be used with Database Access for RDS. See below how to enable it for your database engine.
PostgreSQL users must have a rds_iam
role:
CREATE USER alice;
GRANT rds_iam TO alice;
MySQL and MariaDB users must have the RDS authentication plugin enabled:
CREATE USER alice IDENTIFIED WITH AWSAuthenticationPlugin AS 'RDS';
Created user may not have access to anything by default so let's grant it some permissions:
GRANT ALL ON `%`.* TO 'alice'@'%';
See Creating a database account using IAM authentication for more information.
Step 7/7. Connect
Once the Database Service has started and joined the cluster, log in to see the registered databases:
tsh login --proxy=teleport.example.com --user=alicetsh db lsName Description Labels
------------------------------ --------------------------------------------- --------
postgres-rds RDS instance in us-west-1 ...
aurora-mysql Aurora cluster in us-west-1 ...
aurora-mysql-custom-myendpoint Aurora cluster in us-west-1 (custom endpoint) ...
aurora-mysql-reader Aurora cluster in us-west-1 (reader endpoint) ...
Primary, reader, and custom endpoints of Aurora clusters have names of
<cluster-id>
, <cluster-id>-reader
, and
<cluster-id>-custom-<endpoint-name>
respectively.
Log in to particular database using tsh db login
command:
tsh db login postgres-rds
You can be logged in to multiple databases simultaneously.
You can optionally specify the database name and the user to use by default when connecting to the database instance:
tsh db login --db-user=postgres --db-name=postgres postgres-rds
Now connect to the database:
tsh db connect postgres-rds
The appropriate database command-line client (psql
, mysql
, mariadb
) should be
available in PATH
in order to be able to connect.
To log out of the database and remove credentials:
tsh db logout postgres-rds
Next steps
- Learn how to restrict access to certain users and databases.
- View the High Availability (HA) guide.
- Take a look at the YAML configuration reference.
- See the full CLI reference.