--- title: How to use Teleport Machine ID to provide database... description: A step-by-step walkthrough shows how to deploy Temporal on AWS EKS while eliminating static database passwords by using Teleport Machine ID (tbot) as a... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-use-teleport-machine-id-to-provide-database-access-to-applicati-5z1n9cdfj twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How to use Teleport Machine ID to provide database access to applicati | daily.dev og:description: A step-by-step walkthrough shows how to deploy Temporal on AWS EKS while eliminating static database passwords by using Teleport Machine ID (tbot) as a... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-use-teleport-machine-id-to-provide-database-access-to-applicati-5z1n9cdfj og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/5Z1N9CDFJ.png og:image:alt: How to use Teleport Machine ID to provide database access to applicati og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How to use Teleport Machine ID to provide database access to applicati **[Teleport](https://daily.dev/sources/teleport)** · 13 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A step-by-step walkthrough shows how to deploy Temporal on AWS EKS while eliminating static database passwords by using Teleport Machine ID (tbot) as a sidecar. The setup uses IAM authentication for RDS PostgreSQL, Teleport's auto-user provisioning with role templating, and IRSA to issue short-lived X.509 certificates instead of long-lived secrets. Six steps cover enabling IAM auth on RDS, enrolling the database with Teleport, configuring auto-provisioning roles, initializing Temporal's schemas, setting up tbot with a bot identity/role/join token, and deploying the Temporal Helm chart with a tbot sidecar acting as a local proxy. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### How can I let Temporal connect to an RDS Postgres database on EKS without storing a database password? Deploy Teleport's tbot as a sidecar container that listens on localhost and tunnels traffic to the RDS instance using short-lived X.509 certificates instead of a password. Configure RDS with IAM authentication and Teleport auto-user provisioning, then point Temporal's persistence and visibility config at the tbot local proxy with a dummy password value, since tbot ignores it. _daily.dev surfaces practical guides like this for teams eliminating database passwords in Kubernetes deployments._ ### How do I set up automatic PostgreSQL user provisioning with Teleport for RDS? Create a Postgres user (for example teleport-admin) with the CREATEROLE attribute, grant it rds_iam and rds_superuser with the admin option, then tag the RDS instance with teleport.dev/db-admin set to that username. Define a Teleport role with create_db_user_mode set to keep and db_roles/db_names templated from user traits so Teleport can provision matching Postgres roles just-in-time. _engineers automating database access control can track setups like this via daily.dev._ ### How does a Teleport bot authenticate to a Teleport cluster from an EKS pod without long-lived credentials? 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