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## Introduction
Gravitational Teleport is a tool for remotely accessing isolated clusters of
Gravitational Teleport ("Teleport") is a tool for remotely accessing isolated clusters of
Linux servers via SSH or HTTPS. Unlike traditional key-based access, Teleport
enables teams to easily adopt the following practices:
- Avoid key distribution and [trust on first use](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust_on_first_use) issues by using auto-expiring keys signed by a cluster certificate authority (CA).
- Enforce 2nd factor authentication.
- Connect to clusters located behind firewalls without direct Internet access via SSH bastions.
- Record and replay SSH sessions for audit purposes.
- Collaboratively troubleshoot issues via built-in session sharing.
- Discover online servers and running Docker containers within a cluster with dynamic node labels.
Take a look at [Quick Start](docs/quickstart.md) page to get a taste of using Teleport, or read the
[Architecture Document](docs/architecture.md) to get a full understanding of how Teleport works.
## Why?
Mature tech companies with significant infrastructure footprints tend to implement most
of these patterns internally. Gravitational Teleport allows smaller companies without
significant in-house SSH expertise to easily adopt them as well. Teleport comes with a
beautiful Web UI and a very permissive [Apache 2.0](https://github.com/gravitational/teleport/blob/master/LICENSE)
license.
- Record and replay SSH sessions for knowledge sharing and auditing purposes.
- Collaboratively troubleshoot issues through session sharing.
- Discover online servers and Docker containers within a cluster with dynamic node labels.
Teleport is built on top of the high-quality [Golang SSH](https://godoc.org/golang.org/x/crypto/ssh)
implementation and it is fully [compatible with OpenSSH](docs/admin-guide.md#using-teleport-with-openssh): you can
use `ssh` clients and `sshd` servers with Teleport clusters.
implementation and it is fully compatible with OpenSSH.
## Why Build Teleport?
Mature tech companies with significant infrastructure footprints tend to implement most
of these patterns internally. Teleport allows smaller companies without
significant in-house SSH expertise to easily adopt them, as well. Teleport comes with an
accesible Web UI and a very permissive [Apache 2.0](https://github.com/gravitational/teleport/blob/master/LICENSE)
license to facilitate adoption and use.
## More Information
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Teleport was created by [Gravitational Inc](https://gravitational.com). We have built Teleport
by borrowing from our previous experiences at Rackspace. It has been extracted from [Gravity](http://gravitational.com/vendors.html), our system for helping our clients to deploy
and remotely manage their SaaS applications into many cloud regions or even on-premise.
and remotely manage their SaaS applications on many cloud regions or even on-premise.
Being a wonderful standalone tool, Teleport can be used as a software library enabling
trust management in a complex multi-cluster, multi-region scenarios across many teams
Being a complete standalone tool, Teleport can be used as a software library enabling
trust management in complex multi-cluster, multi-region scenarios across many teams
within multiple organizations.