How to Install Teleport on Fedora Server Latest

Teleport is a tool built for securely accessing servers, Kubernetes clusters, and cloud resources from desktops, laptops, or mobile devices. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the installation process of Teleport on Fedora Server latest.

Prerequisites

  • A user account with sudo privileges.
  • An updated system running Fedora Server latest.

Step 1: Install Teleport

  1. First, open your terminal and update the system by running the command below:
$ sudo dnf upgrade
  1. Once the system is updated, you should install the Transport Layer Security Library:
$ sudo dnf install openssl openssl-devel
  1. Next, download and install the Teleport package by running the following command:
$ wget https://get.gravitational.com/teleport-7.1.0-1.x86_64.rpm
$ sudo dnf install teleport-7.1.0-1.x86_64.rpm
  1. After the installation process is complete, use the following command to check whether the Teleport service is running:
$ sudo systemctl status teleport.service

If the service is not running, start it using the command below:

$ sudo systemctl start teleport.service

Step 2: Configure Teleport

In this section, we will configure Teleport to set up users, roles, and access to the servers.

  1. First, create a configuration file for Teleport:
$ sudo mkdir -p /etc/teleport/
$ sudo nano /etc/teleport/teleport.yaml

Add the following configuration to the file:

auth_service:
  enabled: yes
  cluster_name: teleport
  listen_addr: 0.0.0.0:3025
  public_addr: teleport.example.com:3025
  data_dir: /var/lib/teleport
  audit:
    sessions: /var/log/teleport-sessions.log
    commands: /var/log/teleport-commands.log
servers:
  - role: node
    listen_addr: 0.0.0.0:3023
    public_addr: teleport.example.com:3023
    data_dir: /var/lib/teleport
    auth_token: secret_token
    ca_pin: "sha256:85185a8b45cdc1a7a06eab5c5427c0"
    audit:
      sessions: /var/log/teleport-sessions.log
      commands: /var/log/teleport-commands.log

Note: replace the "teleport.example.com" with your domain name.

  1. Create a user and generate a password for the user. You will need this to log in to the Teleport UI.
$ sudo useradd teleportuser
$ sudo passwd teleportuser
  1. Check the Teleport version:
$ sudo tctl version
  1. Finally, start the Teleport service:
$ sudo systemctl start teleport.service

Conclusion

We have successfully installed and configured Teleport on Fedora Server latest. You can now set up access controls to your servers using Teleport.