How do I determine my Teleport version?

[WilliamLoy]

Can someone please tell me how to determine what version of Teleport I am running?

[deusxanima]

There are a couple of ways.

1. If you're logged into the server, you can run teleport version and it will tell you the binary version.
2. If you're logged into the auth or into the cluster via tsh, you can run tctl get <node|proxy|auth> | egrep -i 'hostname: |version' | grep -vi 'v2' to get the list of all nodes/auth/proxy servers with the full binary version

[tukusejssirs]

Open two using yq: tctl get node | yq 'select(.spec.hostname == "node_hostname") | .spec.version' (node_hostname is actual hostname of a node). Or the same thing, but using a node UUID: tctl get node | yq 'select(.metadata.name == "node_uuid") | .spec.version' where node_uuid is actual node UUID.

@deusxanima, is there a way to access tctl get outside the cluster? I’d like to do it on my local machine (which is not added to the TP cluster) after I logged in to Teleport. I know I could do it via SSH (e.g. tsh ssh -t $username@$cluster $cmd), however, I wish I could do it directly via tctl. 🤔

[deusxanima]

Once you're logged into the cluster via tsh login you should be able to run the tctl get commands directly from your localhost without needing to log into the remote host. If you've downloaded the full teleport binary instead of just the tctl/tsh binaries to your local machine, make sure that it didn't accidentally create an empty /var/lib/teleport directory as tctl will try to use this instead of the remote cluster connection, b/c it assumes you're running tctl on an instance that's joined to Teleport if that dir is present.

If you're not able to get it working, please paste the error you're seeing when you get a moment and I'll be happy to review