# Teleport Automatic Agent Updates

DevFeed: [Teleport Automatic Agent Updates](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/teleport-automatic-agent-updates-29907.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://goteleport.com/blog/teleport-auto-update-agents/>)

Author: travis.rodgers@goteleport.com (Travis Rodgers)

Published: 2023-07-06T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

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

Topics: [maintenance](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/maintenance.md>), [upgrade](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/upgrade.md>), [Security](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/security.md>), [notifications](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/notifications.md>)

Tags: [agent](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agent.md>), [automatic](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/automatic.md>), [maintenance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/maintenance.md>), [security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security.md>), [updates](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/updates.md>), [upgrade](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/upgrade.md>)

## AI overview

The article explains Teleport 13's automatic update feature for Teleport agents and Teleport Kubernetes Agents. It describes why regular updates matter for compatibility, security, stability, and cluster notifications, and explains that enrolled agents can update according to a preconfigured maintenance schedule, including certain updates when an agent cannot join the Teleport cluster.

## Source excerpt

The recent release of Teleport 13 brings a much-anticipated feature allowing Teleport agents and Teleport Kubernetes Agents to be updated automatically.