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Gravitational Teleport 2.0.0 Released
- mbel 10y agoFor everybody who has no idea what a "gravitational teleport" is: it's an SSH server (http://gravitational.com/teleport/ http://gravitational.com/teleport/). Probably it could be included in title? (yeah, I know HN guidelines prefer verbatim titles)
- TeMPOraL 10y agoRelated; I wish people would stop picking such names for their products / companies. Nowadays if I read anything about DevOps, I start to feel like I'm reading something about naval fleet command. Or the other day I saw that headline and thought about Mars terraforming project, only it turned out to be a configuration management software. sigh.
- fao_ 10y agoPerhaps by the time we get to the level where we're doing mass geo-engineering, all the cool trademarks and names will be gone :(
- lordelph 10y agoThat's why such projects will use their vast artificial intellect to name themselves things like "Just Read The Instructions" and "I Thought He Was With You" :)
- doubleplusgood 10y agoUnfortunate Conflict Of Evidence is my favourite.
- delinka 10y agoI'm partial to Lightly Seared on the Reality Grill
- zeristor 10y agoStrange you should say that I was going to call my Mars Terraforming project Configuration Manager.
- zeristor 10y agoWhat does gravitational teleport even mean? One would think that effect of gravitation could be forced to occur at a different place in the universe, nifty perhaps but not on the top of things I need. It seems naming has turned into a poetic amalgam of words to excite. Stripped of meaning it is technobabble in its purest form.
- iand675 10y agoIt appears that organisation is named Gravitational, and the project name is Teleport. I don't think there's much basis for this critique aside from the poor title choice.
- mtreis86 10y agoEngineers like names to be unambiguous as possible. Teleport tells us absolutely nothing about the software.
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- arjie 10y ago> Engineers like names to be unambiguous as possible Such a wealth of evidence that this is complete bullshit. Emacs, Gnome, Amarok, Chrome, Firefox, Git, Mercurial, Hibernate, Spring, Play, Om, Racer.
- Sunset 10y agoI'm still salty about Chrome, "chrome" is a technical term in browser development. It literally means the widgety parts of the GUI that sits on the top, the part that's not the webpage being rendered.
- Chris2048 10y agoSome places do this on purpose in order to get into existing word-real-estate, and maybe even give the impression that their product is responsible for it.
- nsb1 10y agoOr at least link to the main page instead of the release notes.
- subway 10y agoWhat release notes? I still can't find anything about what makes this release noteworthy.
- tokenizerrr 10y agoThat's not a very informative link. Was hoping to see a changelog or something.
- mdekkers 10y agoLooks interesting. Has anybody here used this?
- jdc0589 10y agoI've POCd it. I know GitLab is looking to potentially use it internally, but I don't know where they are with the POC process.
- tokenizerrr 10y agoI tried, but at the time all users had access to all servers in cluster. Which does not work within my organisation. Shame, because it looks really nice.
- mdekkers 10y agothat is a serious dealbreaker
- compuguy 10y agoI've wanted to try it, but I've not had the time to read over the documentation. What would really help is if they had native repos for debian, ubuntu, etc with this prepackaged.
- oneplane 10y agoI wonder who uses this. If you have a fleet, cluster, group or 'multiple' boxes you need to SSH to, doesn't Kerberos make more sense? Or at least something like SSSD's public key proxy? And if you're doing it for configuration management, doesn't actual configuration management make more sense?
- jdc0589 10y agothis is more than just authentication/authorization. It also servers as a transparent bastion server tier, and allows you to do full historical auditing of interactive sessions, on a highly available setup (if you set it up that way). You can rig a lot of this functionality up yourself, but there aren't a lot (or any) open source solutions out there that come as relatively complete turn-key packages.
- falcolas 10y agoWhat advantages does Teleport offer over, say, a PAM module? We currently do this, and it works a treat for managing user SSH access. The one thing I do potentially find useful is the session replay. It could help quite a bit with auditing.
- jdc0589 10y agoits mainly auditing. There are a bunch of sectors where you are either required to have audit logs of interactive sessions, or you really want to have it anyway. It's also just a really convenient bastion server setup.
- tokenizerrr 10y agoWhich PAM module are you using? Or a custom one?
- jdc0589 10y agois there a changelog anywhere? I'd REALLY like to see it, I've been keeping an eye on Teleport for a while now.
- twakefield 10y agoI work at Gravitational. Sorry this isn't more informative. We are still working on a blog post and release notes with more information. We wanted to get the release out asap because some customers are waiting on it.
- amingilani 10y agoThis links to a 404 on Github for me