# Installing Teleport

Whether you are installing Teleport as a cluster or as an agent that talks to the cluster, the Teleport binary is the same. The difference is only in how you [configure it](https://goteleport.com/docs/reference/deployment/config.md), which you will need to do after installation. Before choosing an installation method below, you should identify your particular use case. There are three:

1. **Installing Teleport as a cluster:** Install a self-hosted Teleport cluster to provide secure, identity-based access to all your infrastructure. If you are running Teleport Enterprise Cloud, you will not need this use case, as the cluster is managed for you.
2. **Installing Teleport as an agent:** Install a Teleport Agent on your infrastructure resource to enroll it with your cluster for centralized access management.
3. **Installing Teleport as a client:** For interacting with and managing your clusters via CLI and Teleport Connect.

These use cases will be addressed in each platform page.

### Choose your platform to install Teleport

[Linux](https://goteleport.com/docs/linux)[Docker](https://goteleport.com/docs/docker)[Amazon EC2](https://goteleport.com/docs/amazon-ec2)[Amazon ECS](https://goteleport.com/docs/amazon-ecs)[Helm](https://goteleport.com/docs/helm)[macOS](https://goteleport.com/docs/macos)[Windows](https://goteleport.com/docs/windows)[From Source](https://goteleport.com/docs/source)

## Checksums

If you want to verify the integrity of a Teleport binary, SHA256 checksums are available for all downloads on our [downloads page](https://goteleport.com/download/).

![Teleport Checksum](/docs/assets/images/teleport-sha-d823e03017b0a8c4e0238a9ae21b6145.png)

If you download Teleport via an automated system, you can programmatically obtain the checksum by adding `.sha256` to the download link. This is the method shown in the installation examples.

```
$ export version=v19.0.0-dev
'darwin' 'linux' or 'windows'
$ export os=linux
'386' 'arm' on linux or 'amd64' for all distros
$ export arch=amd64
$ curl https://cdn.teleport.dev/teleport-$version-$os-$arch-bin.tar.gz.sha256
<checksum> <filename>
```

## Uninstalling Teleport

If you wish to uninstall Teleport at any time, see our documentation on [Uninstalling Teleport](https://goteleport.com/docs/installation/uninstall-teleport.md).

## Next steps

Now that you know how to install Teleport, you can enable access to all of your infrastructure. Get started with enrolling resources in your Teleport cluster:

- [SSH servers](https://goteleport.com/docs/enroll-resources/server-access.md)
- [Kubernetes clusters](https://goteleport.com/docs/enroll-resources/kubernetes-access/introduction.md)
- [Databases](https://goteleport.com/docs/enroll-resources/database-access.md)
- [Applications](https://goteleport.com/docs/enroll-resources/application-access.md)
- [Remote desktops](https://goteleport.com/docs/enroll-resources/desktop-access/introduction.md)
- [Machine & Workload Identity](https://goteleport.com/docs/machine-workload-identity/introduction.md)