teleport-fips

Fips

Infra

Stig

Updated 2 days ago

Teleport-FIPS Overview

Secure your stack with a FIPS-validated, hardened Teleport image freshly-built by Minimus. Minimus images always include the most up-to-date package version for all packages and dependencies contained in the image.

Teleport provides secure zero-trust access to infrastructure with minimal configuration and cluster management and unified cryptographic identities for humans, machines and workloads, endpoints, infrastructure assets, and AI agents.

FIPS 140-3 Certification

This image is FIPS-validated to ensure its cryptographic operations meet the Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) required for secure government and regulated environments. Its core cryptographic modules are validated under the NIST Cryptographic Module Validation Program (CMVP) and comply with the FIPS 140-3 standard.

To verify that the FIPS 140-3 provider is configured and active, follow the instructions in the FIPS compliance tab.

Try It Out

To run Teleport-FIPS, a Teleport configuration YAML must be provided. First, generate a default configuration file:

docker run --rm --entrypoint="teleport" reg.mini.dev/teleport-fips configure --roles=proxy,auth > data/teleport.yaml

In this example we wrote the YAML to data/teleport.yaml on the host but you can modify the write path as necessary.

Next, run the container and mount the folder holding your configuration file:

docker run -d --name teleport -p 3080:3080 \
  -v ./data:/etc/teleport \
  reg.mini.dev/teleport-fips

Check the Teleport cluster’s current status:

docker exec teleport tctl status

You should receive a printout such as:

Cluster: 0449a686debc                                                            
Version: 18.1.4                                                                  
CA pins: sha256:4501245a74a330617cc1641596a379149096e2c5f715bbcd51bc1f3fd64e6014 

authority     rotation                protocol status algorithm   storage  
------------- ----------------------- -------- ------ ----------- -------- 
host          standby (never rotated) SSH      active Ed25519     software 
                                      TLS      active ECDSA P-256 software 
...

Technical Considerations

The Teleport-FIPS image provided by Minimus is a FIPS-validated, slim, security-hardened alternative to the public image from Docker Hub. The images are largely interchangeable, with a few differences as noted below.

Teleport-FIPS built by Minimus:

Runs as root to support required Teleport functions. The public image also runs as root.
Drill down on the version specification tab to see the default user, listening ports, entrypoint, volumes, environment variables, etc.

The Payoff

A hardened, minimal image that will remain more secure for the long run and accrue vulnerabilities at a slower rate.

See the risk reduction dashboard for a detailed CVE comparison over the past 30 days.
Review the compliance report to see the default hardening and security configurations for the image.

Terms & Info

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Disclaimer

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