A new role editor in our web UI

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We are excited to announce an important new feature of Teleport 17.1.1: a new role editor built into our Web UI.

Until now, the only option that we provided was editing the role using a YAML source file, even in the Web UI. Although powerful, this strategy was also problematic for our new users who had to understand the role YAML syntax to create and edit roles.

Today, you can create your roles with a user-friendly UI that doesn't require you to enter YAML data:

The new UI lets you specify what kind of access is allowed to your Kubernetes clusters, servers, and other elements of your infrastructure. It also makes it possible to specify access rules for particular Teleport resource types, as well as a selected subset of advanced options.

It is not intended to be flexible enough to implement everything that is possible with Teleport, though. One missing feature, for example, is support for the deny section. For advanced cases, you can still switch to the YAML editor using the editor type switcher in the top right corner:

The editor can switch back and forth between standard and YAML views, as long as the role contains only features supported by the standard editor; once you start using advanced features, you will only be able to use the YAML part.

We value your feedback; please use this announcement thread to let us know what you think. Thank you!