Imagine you've just deployed a working Teleport cluster and you're making changes to the Role Based Access Controls (RBAC) roles, fine-tuning all of your resource permissions, and making sure every role is following the principle of least privilege. You go for a week-long vacation, do some fishing and completely relax. Getting back you find that the DevOps intern you just hired made a bunch of changes to the roles screwing everything up.

The recent release of Teleport 13 brings a much-anticipated feature allowing Teleport agents and Teleport Kubernetes Agents to be updated automatically. In this blog post, we'll look at why that's so important as well as how automatic agent updates work.