SOsolatic·May 17, 2022
As someone who is a big fan of Teleport, sorry, I just don't get it.
> Teleport doesn't provide identity provider integrations beyond GitHub (e.g. Okta) in their open source project
Right, and if you're a small team (5-10 people, like you're targeting) you don't really need SSO on the infra layer. It's a nice to have, it's best practice, but the truth is, by the time you really need it (enough engineers that account management is a pain), you typically have the budget for an Enterprise license.
> They have a different architecture that involves deploying a centralized proxy service (whereas Infra verifies credentials at the destination infrastructure vs at a central proxy).
So anyway you need to deploy something central to issue certificates. And anyway, if, to quote you, "We plan to make money by running a managed service version of Infr
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a so teams don’t need to host and upgrade Infra manually.", isn't that the central proxy service? Yet the open-source version avoids it somehow?
> We plan to make money by running a managed service version of Infra so teams don’t need to host and upgrade Infra manually
So you want to sell to teams that a) are too small to afford the license for a product like Teleport Enterprise, b) have enough money that they can afford a premium product above and beyond the free offering provided by their Kubernetes vendor, like https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/aws-iam-authenticator (for EKS), c) are willing to install and maintain another agent on their cluster (infra), but aren't willing to install and maintain the central proxy point?
> we've designed Infra around an extensible REST API from the start whereas Teleport uses GRPC.
This isn't really important from a product perspective. For what it's worth, Teleport started with a REST API; they moved to gRPC because, if I recall correctly, gRPC helped them scale to support larger infrastructure better.
If you're launching a competing product to Teleport, which is now by far the most mature product in the space, then currently, at least from where I'm sitting, you aren't offering sufficient added value compared to the incumbent offerings, which also include CloudFlare Access, Checkpoint Harmony Connect SASE, Hashicorp Boundary (their offerings aren't quite Kubernetes native, but it's the same idea)...