Set Up Teleport Community Edition in 5 Minutes | Step by Step

May 27, 2025

In this video, I'll walk you through, step-by-step how to set up Teleport Community Edition in just 5 minutes.

Teleport Community Edition is a free, open source distribution of Teleport that anyone can download, install, and host on their own infrastructure.

Follow along guide - https://goteleport.com/docs/admin-guides/deploy-a-cluster/linux-demo/

⏰ Timestamps

00:00 Intro

00:39 Prerequisites

01:53 Step 1 - Configure DNS

02:34 Step 2 - Set up Teleport

03:26 Step 3 - Create a user

04:03 Step 4 - Enroll infrastructure

04:34 Overview

🔗 Mentioned Links

🖥️ How to Enroll Resources
Servers - https://goteleport.com/docs/enroll-resources/server-access/getting-started/
Applications - https://goteleport.com/docs/enroll-resources/application-access/introduction/
Kubernetes - https://goteleport.com/docs/enroll-resources/kubernetes-access/introduction/
Databases - https://goteleport.com/docs/enroll-resources/database-access/
Desktops - https://goteleport.com/docs/enroll-resources/desktop-access/
Machines - https://goteleport.com/docs/enroll-resources/machine-id/introduction/