Teleport Learn

Teleport Learn contains tutorials, how-tos and a glossary for all things infrastructure access.

Infrastructure Access 101

The basics of Infrastructure Access.

Connectivity

What is TCP/IP protocol suite?

TCP/IP, also known as Internet Protocol Suite, is a collection of networking protocols that works together to transfer a data packet from one computer to another using computer networks.

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Comparing TCP/IP and OSI Model

TCP/IP and OSI model serves a similar purpose - to map all the bits and pieces involved in networked communication. While OSI is the recommended standard, the internet was designed around the TCP/IP model.

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How IPv4 and IPv6 works

IPv4 is a 32 bit network address scheme widely used on the internet. IPv6 is a 128 bit network address scheme designed to replace IPv4.

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Authorization

What is RBAC?

RBAC stands for Role-Based Access Control. It is a method of regulating access to servers, computers or network resources based on the roles of individual users within an organization.

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What is ABAC?

Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) is a method of regulating access to resources based on the attributes of both the resource and the user requesting access.

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What is MAC (Mandatory Access Control)?

Mandatory Access Control (MAC) is a type of access control that imposes a predefined set of security rules, or labels, to control which users or systems can access specific resources.

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What is OAuth 2.0 (Open Authorization)?

OAuth 2.0 (Open Authorization) is a standard for authorization where a user allows an application to access their resources hosted on another application, on their behalf, without the sharing of their credentials.

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Audit

OS Default Logging with Windows

No matter the size of your company or the size of your engineering team, it is always important to maintain visibility into what’s happening in your infrastructure. As your company grows, however, and you start to need to meet compliance standards like the SOC2 and FedRAMP frameworks, keeping detailed, specific audit logs becomes a must-have.

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Access Logging

Access logging is the practice of system monitoring via a file or a collection of files that detail all of the various activities on a system. Composed of various events and metadata, good access logging practices will help you stay informed on exactly what is happening in your infrastructure, and exactly who is carrying out these various activities.

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Cheat Sheets and How-to Guides

Short tutorial and cheat sheets showing practical code snippets.

AWS EKS

How to Configure Single Sign-On (SSO) for Accessing AWS EKS Clusters

We will guide you through the steps to configure single sign-On (SSO) for Amazon EKS clusters with Okta, SAML and Teleport Enterprise.

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Just-in-Time Access for Amazon EKS

A practical guide showing how you can implement just-in-time access for EKS using Teleport.

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