--- title: On terminals and sessions | daily.dev description: Teleport 9 introduces Teleport Connect, a new open source desktop application providing a single unified session across SSH servers, databases, and Kubernetes... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/on-terminals-and-sessions-tlsmqqtvy twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: On terminals and sessions | daily.dev og:description: Teleport 9 introduces Teleport Connect, a new open source desktop application providing a single unified session across SSH servers, databases, and Kubernetes... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/on-terminals-and-sessions-tlsmqqtvy og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/tlsMQQTvY.png og:image:alt: On terminals and sessions 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. # On terminals and sessions **[Teleport](https://daily.dev/sources/teleport)** · 7 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Teleport 9 introduces Teleport Connect, a new open source desktop application providing a single unified session across SSH servers, databases, and Kubernetes clusters instead of juggling separate logins and terminal tabs for each cloud resource. The piece frames the problem historically: unlike a single-machine session manager that carries identity across programs, cloud environments lack a shared identity layer, forcing engineers to maintain scattered credentials, keys, and cookies - a security risk cited in a 2021 Infrastructure Access Report where over 80% of organizations couldn't guarantee former engineers lost access. Teleport Connect uses SSO, MFA, and short-lived certificates instead of static secrets, with the initial release supporting SSH, MySQL, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL, with Kubernetes and web-app support planned for future releases. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What is Teleport Connect and what protocols does it support at launch? Teleport Connect is an open source desktop application released alongside Teleport 9 that establishes a single session across cloud infrastructure resources, using SSO, MFA, and automatically expiring certificates instead of static credentials. Its first release supports only SSH, MySQL, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL, with Kubernetes and web-based application support (such as Grafana) planned for later releases. It requires Teleport deployed on the infrastructure it connects to. _daily.dev surfaces releases like this for engineers evaluating unified access tools for cloud infrastructure._ ### Why can't organizations guarantee former employees have lost access to cloud environments? Because cloud environments lack a common session manager equivalent to a single machine's OS-level session, so access to each resource (SSH, Kubernetes, databases, Jenkins, etc.) is provisioned and deprovisioned separately. A 2021 Infrastructure Access Report found over 80% of organizations could not guarantee former engineers no longer had access to their cloud environments, since there is no single place to revoke everything at once. _engineers tightening offboarding and access revocation processes track findings like this on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Stop managing SSH keys on every server and switch to Teleport](https://daily.dev/posts/stop-managing-ssh-keys-on-every-server-and-switch-to-teleport-zoja48gov) · All Things Open · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#security](https://daily.dev/tags/security), [#kubernetes](https://daily.dev/tags/kubernetes), [#ssh](https://daily.dev/tags/ssh) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/on-terminals-and-sessions-tlsmqqtvy) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"On terminals and sessions","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/on-terminals-and-sessions-tlsmqqtvy","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/on-terminals-and-sessions-tlsmqqtvy"},"datePublished":"2026-08-23T12:22:47.908Z","dateModified":"2026-08-23T12:50:09.127Z","description":"Teleport 9 introduces Teleport Connect, a new open source desktop application providing a single unified session across SSH servers, databases, and Kubernetes...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--58gMhC4P--/f_auto/v1722860399/public/Placeholder%2012","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--58gMhC4P--/f_auto/v1722860399/public/Placeholder%2012","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Teleport","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Teleport","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--Dw-Bbw6O--/c_limit,w_256/f_auto,q_auto/v1787487494/logos/teleport?_a=BAMAMicg0","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/teleport"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/on-terminals-and-sessions-tlsmqqtvy","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"security,kubernetes,ssh","timeRequired":"PT7M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Teleport","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/teleport"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"On terminals and sessions"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"FAQPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/on-terminals-and-sessions-tlsmqqtvy#faq","mainEntity":[{"@type":"Question","name":"What is Teleport Connect and what protocols does it support at launch?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"Teleport Connect is an open source desktop application released alongside Teleport 9 that establishes a single session across cloud infrastructure resources, using SSO, MFA, and automatically expiring certificates instead of static credentials. 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