* Reorganize early-stage docs sections
Closes#18127
Currently, there are two sections of the docs related to the earliest
stages of setting up Teleport, "Try out Teleport" and "Deploy a
Cluster". While the organization of our top-level docs sections attempts
to correspond to the stages a user goes through when setting up
Teleport, these combine some tasks that should probably be separated:
- **Choosing an edition and deploying a production cluster**: While the
"Deploy a Cluster" section includes our deployment guides as well as
our edition guides, user will likely commit to setting up Teleport
Cloud, Open Source, or Enterprise before they plan a full HA
production deployment.
- **Deploying a production cluster and deploying a small-scale Teleport
cluster:** While the "Deploy a Cluster" section includes the Linux
Server and Digital Ocean 1-Click guides, these two guides are more for
small-scale deployments than full production clusters.
This change improves the early-stage docs experience for new Teleport
users by:
Splitting the "Deploy a Cluster" section
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The "Deploy a Cluster" section includes subsections related to choosing
a Teleport edition as well as subsections related to deploying a
production cluster. The problem with this approach is that it leaves no
room for adding introductory guides to help users with these two
purposes.
By splitting the "Deploy a Cluster" section into two top-level sections,
one related to choosing an edition and the other to dpeloying to
production, we can add introductory pages that put the subsections of
these sections in context.
_This change accompanies the work on #16751 to write a general guide to
HA Teleport deployments, since the new guide will have a prominent
place in the reorganized "Deploy a Cluster" section._
Adding introductory pages
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Sections related to getting started with Teleport, "Try out Teleport"
and "Deploy a Cluster", were missing introductory pages. This change
adds them, and also adds one to the new "Choose an Edition" section.
Moving the Linux Server and Digital Ocean guides
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Move these to "Try out Teleport". The Digital Ocean guide didn't fit
with the rest of the deployment guides, since it's not about
architecting an HA deployment.
This is also a better home for the "Linux Server" guide, so this change
moves that as well.
Removing the "getting-started.mdx" page
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This page is not reachable via the navigation menu.
* Respond to PR feedback
* Respond to PR feedback
Also minor text tweaks
This makes the table easier to keep up to date. Our version
compatibility guarantees ensure that there's no compatibility difference
between minor versions anyway, so it's not as important that users know
when a minor version is likely to go out of support.
* Add a version support table to the FAQ
Fixes#15582
List the minor Teleport versions we currently support, plus their
release dates and minimum `tsh` versions. This restores the table that
we removed in PR #12641. Unlike that table, this change does not
list versions that are EOL, as this is now quite a lengthy list.
Instead, this change makes it explicit that the table lists currently
supported versions.
* Respond to PR feedback
Add a note about cross-component version compatibility to the FAQ by
creating a partial from a similar compatibility note in our Upgrading
guide.
* Organize docs guide sections chronologically
This change aims to make docs navigation easier by organizing some docs
sections according to the sequence of steps a user would take to set up
Teleport.
The current docs organization uses a variety of categories and schemes
to organize the docs. For example, there is a "Home" section that
includes the Changelog, Installation page, and Getting Started guides; a
"Setup" section that includes references and admin guides; and
edition-specific sections (Enterprise, Cloud). For a user who is setting
up Teleport--or who has already done some setup work and wants more
advanced instructions--it's difficult to know where in the docs to find
the right information.
This change organizes our how-to guides into the following categories
that describe the process of setting up Teleport:
- Try out Teleport
- Deploy a Cluster (including choosing an edition)
- Configure Access (including SSO, RBAC, and Access Requests)
- Manage your Cluster (admin guides, operations, etc.)
- Use Teleport (this section already exists)
I moved the Reference section after this chronology, since users can
access the reference guides anywhere in the setup process.
As part of the change, I have also moved the content from the
"Enterprise" and "Cloud" sections into "Deploy a Cluster", since this
content has to do with how to deploy a specific edition of Teleport.
Note that this change does _not_ attempt to reorganize our
protocol-specific sections. While adding resources is part of the
Teleport setup process, we have a lot of content in our
protocol-specific sections, and moving it all into a single section
related to adding resources to a cluster would (a) exceed the maximum
depth for subsections in the nav bar and (b) cause more confusion than
it alleviates.
* Respond to PR feedback
- Create a "Compliance Frameworks" section of "Configure Access" with
the FedRAMP and SOC 2 guides
- Rename "Use Teleport" to "Connect your Client"
- Move the database GUI client guide into "Connect your Client"
* Add redirects
* Fix linter issues
Fixes#10976
This change helps to remedy two issues with the documentation:
- Much of the documentation was written when Teleport's services
consisted of the Auth Service, Proxy Service, and Nodes/SSH Service.
There are some places in the docs where a reader can mistake the
Node Service to mean "any resource service."
- Users often associate the term "agent" with a daemon that must run on
every host in their infrastructure, and usage of this term can make
Teleport seem more resource intensive than it actually is.
This change corrects mentions of "Node" that stand in for "any service
that access resources in your infrastructure" to account for Teleport's
other resource services. It also replaces mentions of the term "agent"
with "instance," the name of a resource service, or simply "Teleport."
Also edits the "agentless" question in the FAQ to include more detailed
information about each of Teleport's resource services.
This change also does some light copy-editing to correct the
capitalization of service names. It doesn't aim to be comprehensive,
though, since the main purpose of this change is to fix potentially
misleading mentions of "Node" and "agents".
Finally, this change deletes the production.mdx guide, as there is
no way to access this guide due to redirects. This guide includes
some outdated usage of "Nodes".
Fixes#12582
Some of our Enterpise information is out of date.
Teleport Enterprise introduction:
- Add information on HSM support and Moderated Sessions
Teleport FAQ:
- Update the edition comparison table.
- Promote each question to an H2 header, allowing it to appear in the
table of contents sidebar.
- Update some outdated terms.
- Convert the edition comparison table from HTMl to Markdown for ease
of reading.
- Remove the version support table since it is long out of date.
* Add Cloud-specific instructions to two guides
Ensure that users of a particular scope don't see irrelevant info
See #10633
GitHub SSO guide
- Edit the tctl partial to show only scope-relevant info.
- Use tabs in the Prerequisites
- Light edits for clarity
Adding Nodes
- Use Tabs for prerequisites
- Move sections specific to self-hosted deployments into Details
boxes that are hidden for Cloud users
- Use Tabs components to offer Cloud-specific alternatives to
examples of commands that presuppose a self-hosted deployment
- Misc clarity edits
* Respond to PR feedback
* Fix linter issues
* Video Banner (#7914)
* Drain off admin guide into setup sections. (#7960)
* Expand daemon section and graceful restarts guide
* Move API section to top
* Move references to setup
Co-authored-by: Ben Arent <ben@goteleport.com>
