# Teleport 9 - How We Built Machine ID

DevFeed: [Teleport 9 - How We Built Machine ID](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/teleport-9-how-we-built-machine-id-29698.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://goteleport.com/blog/how-we-built-machine-id/>)

Author: sakshyam.shah@goteleport.com (Sakshyam Shah)

Published: 2022-04-08T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Teleport](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/teleport.md>)

Topics: [Automation](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/automation.md>), [certificates](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/certificates.md>), [Authentication](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/authentication.md>), [AWS IAM](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/aws-iam.md>), [Security](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/security.md>), [ssh](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ssh.md>), [Kubernetes](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/kubernetes.md>)

Tags: [authentication](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/authentication.md>), [automation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/automation.md>), [aws-iam](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/aws-iam.md>), [certificates](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/certificates.md>), [kubernetes](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/kubernetes.md>), [product](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/product.md>), [security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security.md>), [ssh](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ssh.md>)

## AI overview

This post explains how Teleport built Machine ID to automate the issuance and renewal of short-lived certificates for machine-to-machine infrastructure access. It describes authentication through AWS IAM joining or one-time join tokens and the use of a lightweight renewal agent.

## Source excerpt

This post explains how we built Machine ID, our latest product which automates short-lived certificate issuance and renewal for machine-to-machine access at scale.