Why Machines Deserve Rights - Rethinking Automated Infrastructure Access with OSS Teleport Machine ID

Explore the concept of machine rights and automated infrastructure access in this 30-minute conference talk from KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023. Delve into the challenges of managing credentials for machines in modern infrastructure and learn why treating bots with the same level of security as human users is crucial. Discover how open-source Teleport Machine ID addresses these issues by assigning unique identities with RBAC roles and short-lived certificates to bot users, enabling secure connections to remote hosts while maintaining centralized audit logging. Examine the limitations of legacy automated access solutions, gain an overview of Teleport, and witness a Machine ID demo. Understand the technology behind this identity-based access control plane that seamlessly integrates with cloud infrastructure, including Kubernetes clusters and databases. Learn how to eliminate the need for managing and rotating shared credentials, enhancing security across your infrastructure.