Teleport
Certificate authority and access plane for SSH, Kubernetes, web applications, and databases.
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Still maintained? Yes: 251 commits in the last 90 days, latest release v18.10.0 (Jul 2026).
Comparisons in Miscellaneous: ChatGPT alternatives, DeepL alternatives.
At a glance
Teleport quick facts
- Health score
- 97/100 GOOD
- Stars
- 21,049
- Last commit
- 10 days ago (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- v18.10.0, Jul 2026
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "Teleport provides connectivity, authentication, access controls and audit for infrastructure."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
Teleport scores 97/100, #8 of 77 in Miscellaneous: 251 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the latest release (v18.10.0, 4 months ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 21,049 stars add 17.3 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and Docker support adds the final 10. That places it in the good band (70 and above). The biggest shortfall is star count, worth 2.7 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
251 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
v18.10.0 released 4 months ago
- Stars biggest shortfall 17.3 / 20
21k stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 10.0 / 10
Docker image or Compose file available
Commit activity
- 251
- Last 90 days
- 3,455
- Last 12 months
- 10 days ago
- Last push
Ranked #8 of 77 tools in Miscellaneous by health , between Neko (#7) and OmniTools (#9) .
Details
| Licence | Apache-2.0 |
| Platforms | Go, Docker, K8S |
| Latest release | v18.10.0 · 4 months ago |
| Stars | 21,049 |
| Open issues | 2,747 |
| Docker | Yes |
| Repository | gravitational/teleport ↗ |
Teleport vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with Teleport (Miscellaneous), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| penpot | 99 | 62k | MPL-2.0 | today |
| Reactive Resume | 99 | 45k | MIT | today |
| Anubis | 98 | 24k | MIT | yesterday |
| Infisical Community Edition | 98 | 30k | MIT | today |
| ConvertX | 97 | 19k | AGPL-3.0 | 2 days ago |
| Teleport (this tool) | 97 | 21k | Apache-2.0 | 10 days ago |
Teleport: common questions
Is Teleport still maintained?
Teleport had 251 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was 10 days ago; the latest tagged release, v18.10.0, is from 4 months ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.
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