charts/teleport-kube-agent

Teleport Agent chart

This chart is a Teleport agent used to register any or all of the following services with an existing Teleport cluster:

• Teleport Kubernetes access
• Teleport Application access
• Teleport Database access

To use it, you will need:

• an existing Teleport cluster (at least proxy and auth services)
• a reachable proxy endpoint ($PROXY_ENDPOINT e.g. teleport.example.com:3080 or teleport.example.com:443)
• a reachable reverse tunnel port on the proxy (e.g. teleport.example.com:3024). The address is automatically retrieved from the Teleport proxy configuration.
• either a static or dynamic join token for the Teleport Cluster
  • a static join token for this Teleport cluster ($JOIN_TOKEN) is used by default.
  • optionally a dynamic join token can be used on Kubernetes clusters that support persistent volumes. Set storage.enabled=true and storage.storageClassName=<storage class configured in kubernetes> in the helm configuration to use persistent volumes.

Combining roles

You can combine multiple roles as a comma-separated list: --set roles=kube\,db\,app

Note that commas must be escaped if the values are provided on the command line. This is due to the way that Helm parses arguments.

You must also provide the settings for each individual role which is enabled as detailed below.

Backwards compatibility

To provide backwards compatibility with older versions of the teleport-kube-agent chart, if you do not specify any value for roles, the chart will run with only the kube role enabled.

Kubernetes access

To use Teleport Kubernetes access, you will also need:

• to choose a name for your Kubernetes cluster, distinct from other registered clusters ($KUBERNETES_CLUSTER_NAME)

To install the agent, run:

$ helm install teleport-kube-agent . \
  --create-namespace \
  --namespace teleport \
  --set roles=kube \
  --set proxyAddr=${PROXY_ENDPOINT?} \
  --set authToken=${JOIN_TOKEN?} \
  --set kubeClusterName=${KUBERNETES_CLUSTER_NAME?}

Set the values in the above command as appropriate for your setup.

You can also optionally set labels for your Kubernetes cluster using the format --set "labels.key=value" - for example: --set "labels.env=development,labels.region=us-west-1"

To avoid specifying the auth token in plain text, it's possible to create a secret containing the token beforehand. To do so, run:

export TELEPORT_KUBE_TOKEN=`<auth token> | base64 -w0`
export TELEPORT_NAMESPACE=teleport

cat <<EOF > secrets.yaml
---
apiVersion: v1
kind: Secret
metadata:
  name: teleport-kube-agent-join-token
  namespace: ${TELEPORT_NAMESPACE?}
type: Opaque
data:
  auth-token: ${TELEPORT_KUBE_TOKEN?}
EOF

$ kubectl apply -f secret.yaml

$ helm install teleport-kube-agent . \
  --create-namespace \
  --namespace ${TELEPORT_NAMESPACE?} \
  --set roles=kube \
  --set proxyAddr=${PROXY_ENDPOINT?} \
  --set kubeClusterName=${KUBERNETES_CLUSTER_NAME?}

Note that due to backwards compatibility, the labels value only applies to the Teleport Kubernetes service. To set labels for applications or databases, use the different formats detailed below.

Application access

Dynamic Registration mode

To use Teleport application access in dynamic registration mode, you will need to know the application resource selector. ($APP_RESOURCE_KEY and $APP_RESOURCE_VALUE)

To listen for all application resources, set both variables to *.

To install the agent in dynamic application registration mode, run:

$ helm install teleport-kube-agent . \
--create-namespace \
--namespace teleport \
--set roles=app \
--set proxyAddr=${PROXY_ENDPOINT?} \
--set authToken=${JOIN_TOKEN?} \
--set "appResources[0].labels.${APP_RESOURCE_KEY?}=${APP_RESOURCE_VALUE?}"

Manual configuration mode

To use Teleport Application access, you will also need:

• the name of an application that you would like to proxy ($APP_NAME)
• the URI to connect to the application from the node where this chart is deployed ($APP_URI)

To install the agent, run:

$ helm install teleport-kube-agent . \
  --create-namespace \
  --namespace teleport \
  --set roles=app \
  --set proxyAddr=${PROXY_ENDPOINT?} \
  --set authToken=${JOIN_TOKEN?} \
  --set "apps[0].name=${APP_NAME?}" \
  --set "apps[0].uri=${APP_URI?}"

Set the values in the above command as appropriate for your setup.

These are the supported values for the apps map:

Key	Description	Example	Default	Required
name	Name of the app to be accessed	apps[0].name=grafana		Yes
uri	URI of the app to be accessed	apps[0].uri=http://localhost:3000		Yes
public_addr	Public address used to access the app	apps[0].public_addr=grafana.teleport.example.com		No
labels.[name]	Key-value pairs to set against the app for grouping/RBAC	apps[0].labels.env=local,apps[0].labels.region=us-west-1		No
insecure_skip_verify	Whether to skip validation of TLS certificates presented by backend apps	apps[0].insecure_skip_verify=true	false	No
rewrite.redirect	A list of URLs to rewrite to the public address of the app service	apps[0].rewrite.redirect[0]=https://192.168.1.1		No

You can add multiple apps using apps[1].name, apps[1].uri, apps[2].name, apps[2].uri etc.

After installing, the new application should show up in tsh apps ls after a few minutes.

Database access

Dynamic Registration mode

To use Teleport database access in dynamic registration mode, you will need to know the database resource selector. ($DB_RESOURCE_KEY and $DB_RESOURCE_VALUE)

To listen for all database resources, set both variables to *.

To install the agent in dynamic database registration mode, run:

$ helm install teleport-kube-agent . \
--create-namespace \
--namespace teleport \
--set roles=db \
--set proxyAddr=${PROXY_ENDPOINT?} \
--set authToken=${JOIN_TOKEN?} \
--set "databaseResources[0].labels.${DB_RESOURCE_KEY?}=${DB_RESOURCE_VALUE?}"

Auto-discovery mode (AWS)

To use Teleport database access in AWS database auto-discovery mode, you will also need:

• the database types you are attempting to auto-discover (types)
• the AWS region(s) you would like to run auto-discovery in (regions)
• the AWS resource tags if you want to target only certain databases (tags)

See the AWS databases Helm chart reference for an example of installing an agent with AWS database auto-discovery.

Auto-discovery mode (Azure)

To use Teleport database access in Azure database auto-discovery mode, you will also need:

• the database types you are attempting to auto-discover (types)
• the Azure resource tags if you want to target only certain databases (tags)

You can optionally specify:

• the Azure subscription(s) to auto-discover in (subscriptions)
• the Azure region(s) to auto-discover in (regions)
• the Azure resource-group(s) to auto-discover in (resource_groups)

The default for each of these optional settings is [*], which will auto-discover in all subscriptions, regions, or resource groups accessible by the Teleport service principal in Azure.

See the Azure databases Helm chart reference for an example of installing an agent with Azure database auto-discovery.

Manual configuration mode

To use Teleport database access, you will also need:

• the name of an database that you would like to proxy ($DB_NAME)
• the URI to connect to the database from the node where this chart is deployed ($DB_URI)
• the database protocol used for the database ($DB_PROTOCOL)

To install the agent in manual database configuration mode, run:

$ helm install teleport-kube-agent . \
  --create-namespace \
  --namespace teleport \
  --set roles=db \
  --set proxyAddr=${PROXY_ENDPOINT?} \
  --set authToken=${JOIN_TOKEN?} \
  --set "databases[0].name=${DB_NAME?}" \
  --set "databases[0].uri=${DB_URI?}" \
  --set "databases[0].protocol=${DB_PROTOCOL?}"

Set the values in the above command as appropriate for your setup.

These are the supported values for the databases map:

Key	Description	Example	Default	Required
name	Name of the database to be accessed	databases[0].name=aurora		Yes
uri	URI of the database to be accessed	databases[0].uri=postgres-aurora-instance-1.xxx.us-east-1.rds.amazonaws.com:5432		Yes
protocol	Database protocol	databases[0].protocol=postgres		Yes
description	Free-form description of the database proxy instance	databases[0].description='AWS Aurora instance of PostgreSQL 13.0'		No
aws.region	AWS-specific region configuration (only used for RDS/Aurora)	databases[0].aws.region=us-east-1		No
labels.[name]	Key-value pairs to set against the database for grouping/RBAC	databases[0].labels.db=postgres-dev,apps[0].labels.region=us-east-1		No

You can add multiple databases using databases[1].name, databases[1].uri, databases[1].protocol, databases[2].name, databases[2].uri, databases[2].protocol etc.

After installing, the new database should show up in tsh db ls after a few minutes.

Troubleshooting

If the service for a given role doesn't show up, look into the agent logs with:

$ kubectl logs -n teleport deployment/teleport-kube-agent

Contributing to the chart

Please read CONTRIBUTING.md before raising a pull request to this chart.