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Teleport

★ 19k

Certificate-based zero-trust access to SSH, Kubernetes, databases, and internal web apps.

Teleport does the job of StrongDM, self-hosted. It is AGPL-licensed, so a hosted fork has to publish its changes, and running it properly takes real ops work. StrongDM bills $70/user for it. 19k stars on GitHub.

Open-source replacement for StrongDM.

Licence
AGPL-3.0
Self-hosting
Hard
The paid one costs
$70/user
GitHub stars
19k
view the code →official site →

Is it actually a replacement?

We have not written a verdict on StrongDM yet, so this page says what Teleport is rather than judging what you would give up. When that product gets a page, this one will link to it.

Teleport questions

Is Teleport open source?

Yes — it is released under AGPL-3.0.

Can I self-host Teleport?

Yes — we rate it hard to self-host.

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