Teleport has introduced Beams, a runtime designed to address security and Identity and Access Management (IAM) challenges in the deployment of AI agents within production infrastructures.
Beams runs each AI agent within an isolated Firecracker VM, aiming to provide a secure environment with integrated identity management. The runtime seeks to allow agents to connect to infrastructure and inference services without using secrets, while maintaining audit trails and access controls.
The design aims to address common challenges in developing agentic workflows, where engineers traditionally need to manually integrate IAM, infrastructure, and secrets, often resulting in inconsistent identity management and limited visibility into agent actions. Beams aims to provide isolated environments that start quickly, maintain security constraints, and integrate with Teleport’s identity and audit frameworks.
Each Beam VM offers full file system and network isolation. Agents can authenticate to registered services and inference endpoints using delegated identity, without requiring secrets. Network access is controlled, and all agent actions are logged to provide visibility and traceability.
Beams aims to support a range of use cases, including internal agents accessing production services, developers testing agentic workflows in staging environments without exposing secrets, and multi-agent production pipelines that require secure, reproducible isolation.
