Boundary Community Edition

Boundary provides secure remote access to critical systems with fine-grained authorizations based on trusted identities. While HCP Boundary provides a managed solution, Boundary Community Edition is a self-managed distribution that organizations can deploy on-premise to manage access to infrastructure endpoints. The source code for Boundary Community Edition is freely available on GitHub. The following sections contain information on the use case for Boundary and how to install and configure self-managed Boundary environments.

Traditional approaches like SSH bastion hosts or VPNs require distributing and managing credentials, configuring network controls like firewalls, and exposing the private network. Boundary Community Edition provides secure access to hosts and critical systems without having to manage credentials or expose your network, and is free.

Boundary Community Edition is designed to be straightforward to understand, highly scalable, and resilient. It can run in clouds, on-premise, or within secure enclaves. Boundary does not require an agent to be installed on the end host.

Tutorial

Refer to the Get Started with self-hosted Boundary tutorial series to learn how to install and configure Boundary.