--- title: Using Teleport to Create and Maintain Shared Demo... description: Teleport's Solutions Engineering team explains how they built a shared demo environment on Teleport Enterprise to give each engineer access to their own demo... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/using-teleport-to-create-and-maintain-shared-demo-environments-zxh6nznm1 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Using Teleport to Create and Maintain Shared Demo Environments | daily.dev og:description: Teleport's Solutions Engineering team explains how they built a shared demo environment on Teleport Enterprise to give each engineer access to their own demo... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/using-teleport-to-create-and-maintain-shared-demo-environments-zxh6nznm1 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/zxH6Nznm1.png og:image:alt: Using Teleport to Create and Maintain Shared Demo Environments 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. # Using Teleport to Create and Maintain Shared Demo Environments **[Teleport](https://daily.dev/sources/teleport)** · 9 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Teleport's Solutions Engineering team explains how they built a shared demo environment on Teleport Enterprise to give each engineer access to their own demo resources while controlling AWS costs. The walkthrough covers creating a role for SEs to administer their own databases on a shared RDS instance, configuring a database user with limited permissions, mapping an AWS IAM policy for the Teleport db_service, and setting up a more privileged DBA role accessible only via just-in-time access requests with two-hour session limits. It also touches on running Teleport across multiple trusted clusters to mirror customer deployments spanning AWS and GCP. ## 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 multiple engineers share one RDS database instance without giving everyone full admin access? Create a Teleport role that maps each user to their own set of databases using the external.dbnames variable populated from SSO attributes, paired with a restricted database user (e.g. granted only SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE) rather than superuser privileges. Higher-privilege DBA actions are handled through a separate role requested via just-in-time access requests with a short session TTL, such as two hours. _daily.dev surfaces practical access-control patterns for teams designing shared cloud infrastructure._ ### What is a just-in-time access request in Teleport used for? It lets a user temporarily assume a more privileged role, such as a database admin role, without holding standing access. Requests must be approved by another team member (not self-approved), and the elevated role expires automatically after a set session TTL, for example two hours, after which the user reverts to their default limited role, with every action logged in the audit log. _daily.dev helps engineers evaluating access-request workflows compare real implementation patterns._ --- Tags: [#cloud](https://daily.dev/tags/cloud), [#aws](https://daily.dev/tags/aws), [#aws-rds](https://daily.dev/tags/aws-rds) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/using-teleport-to-create-and-maintain-shared-demo-environments-zxh6nznm1) ```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":"Using Teleport to Create and Maintain Shared Demo Environments","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/using-teleport-to-create-and-maintain-shared-demo-environments-zxh6nznm1","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/using-teleport-to-create-and-maintain-shared-demo-environments-zxh6nznm1"},"datePublished":"2026-08-23T12:21:47.073Z","dateModified":"2026-08-23T12:40:58.556Z","description":"Teleport's Solutions Engineering team explains how they built a shared demo environment on Teleport Enterprise to give each engineer access to their own demo...","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/using-teleport-to-create-and-maintain-shared-demo-environments-zxh6nznm1","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"cloud,aws,aws-rds","timeRequired":"PT9M"} {"@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":"Using Teleport to Create and Maintain Shared Demo Environments"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"FAQPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/using-teleport-to-create-and-maintain-shared-demo-environments-zxh6nznm1#faq","mainEntity":[{"@type":"Question","name":"How can I let multiple engineers share one RDS database instance without giving everyone full admin access?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"Create a Teleport role that maps each user to their own set of databases using the external.dbnames variable populated from SSO attributes, paired with a restricted database user (e.g. granted only SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE) rather than superuser privileges. 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