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-Secure gateway to your private networks
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-_Pangolin tunnels your services to the internet so you can access anything from anywhere._
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+[](https://discord.gg/HCJR8Xhme4)
[](https://digpangolin.com/slack)
[](https://hub.docker.com/r/fosrl/pangolin)

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- Start testing Pangolin at pangolin.fossorial.io
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+Pangolin is a self-hosted tunneled reverse proxy server with identity and context aware access control, designed to easily expose and protect applications running anywhere. Pangolin acts as a central hub and connects isolated networks — even those behind restrictive firewalls — through encrypted tunnels, enabling easy access to remote services without opening ports or requiring a VPN.
-Pangolin is a self-hosted tunneled reverse proxy server with identity and access control, designed to securely expose private resources on distributed networks. Acting as a central hub, it connects isolated networks — even those behind restrictive firewalls — through encrypted tunnels, enabling easy access to remote services without opening ports.
+## Installation
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-## Key Features
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-### Reverse Proxy Through WireGuard Tunnel
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-- Expose private resources on your network **without opening ports** (firewall punching).
-- Secure and easy to configure private connectivity via a custom **user space WireGuard client**, [Newt](https://github.com/fosrl/newt).
-- Built-in support for any WireGuard client.
-- Automated **SSL certificates** (https) via [LetsEncrypt](https://letsencrypt.org/).
-- Support for HTTP/HTTPS and **raw TCP/UDP services**.
-- Load balancing.
-- Extend functionality with existing [Traefik](https://github.com/traefik/traefik) plugins, such as [CrowdSec](https://plugins.traefik.io/plugins/6335346ca4caa9ddeffda116/crowdsec-bouncer-traefik-plugin) and [Geoblock](https://github.com/PascalMinder/geoblock).
- - **Automatically install and configure Crowdsec via Pangolin's installer script.**
-- Attach as many sites to the central server as you wish.
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-### Identity & Access Management
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-- Centralized authentication system using platform SSO. **Users will only have to manage one login.**
-- **Define access control rules for IPs, IP ranges, and URL paths per resource.**
-- TOTP with backup codes for two-factor authentication.
-- Create organizations, each with multiple sites, users, and roles.
-- **Role-based access control** to manage resource access permissions.
-- Additional authentication options include:
- - Email whitelisting with **one-time passcodes.**
- - **Temporary, self-destructing share links.**
- - Resource specific pin codes.
- - Resource specific passwords.
- - Passkeys
-- External identity provider (IdP) support with OAuth2/OIDC, such as Authentik, Keycloak, Okta, and others.
- - Auto-provision users and roles from your IdP.
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-## Use Cases
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-### Manage Access to Internal Apps
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-- Grant users access to your apps from anywhere using just a web browser. No client software required.
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-### Developers and DevOps
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-- Expose and test internal tools and dashboards like **Grafana**. Bring localhost or private IPs online for easy access.
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-### Secure API Gateway
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-- One application load balancer across multiple clouds and on-premises.
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-### IoT and Edge Devices
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-- Easily expose **IoT devices**, **edge servers**, or **Raspberry Pi** to the internet for field equipment monitoring.
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+Check out the [quick install guide](https://docs.digpangolin.com) for how to install and set up Pangolin.
## Deployment Options
-### Fully Self Hosted
+| Deployment Type | Description |
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+| **Self-Host: Community Edition** | Free, open source, and AGPL-3 compliant. |
+| **Self-Host: Enterprise Edition** | Licensed under Fossorial Commercial License. Free for personal and hobbyist use, and for businesses earning under \$100K USD annually. |
+| **Pangolin Cloud** | Fully managed service with instant setup and pay-as-you-go pricing — no infrastructure required. Or, self-host your own [remote node](https://github.com/fosrl/remote-note) and connect to our control plane. |
-Host the full application on your own server or on the cloud with a VPS. Take a look at the [documentation](https://docs.digpangolin.com/self-host/quick-install) to get started.
+## Key Features
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+Pangolin packages everything you need for seamless application access and exposure into one cohesive platform.
-### Pangolin Cloud
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+| **Manage applications in one place**
Pangolin provides a unified dashboard where you can monitor, configure, and secure all of your services regardless of where they are hosted. | 
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+| **Reverse proxy across networks anywhere**
Route traffic via tunnels to any private network. Pangolin works like a reverse proxy that spans multiple networks and handles routing, load balancing, health checking, and more to the right services on the other end. | 
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+| **Enforce identity and context aware rules**
Protect your applications with identity and context aware rules such as SSO, OIDC, PIN, password, temporary share links, geolocation, IP, and more. | 
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+| **Quickly connect Pangolin sites**
Pangolin's lightweight [Newt](https://github.com/fosrl/newt) client runs in userspace and can run anywhere. Use it as a site connector to route traffic to backends across all of your environments. | 
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-Easy to use with simple [pay as you go pricing](https://digpangolin.com/pricing). [Check it out here](https://pangolin.fossorial.io/auth/signup).
+## Get Started
-- Everything you get with self hosted Pangolin, but fully managed for you.
+### Check out the docs
-### Managed & High Availability
+We encourage everyone to read the full documentation first, which is
+available at [docs.digpangolin.com](https://docs.digpangolin.com). This README provides only a very brief subset of
+the docs to illustrate some basic ideas.
-Managed control plane, your infrastructure
+### Sign up and try now
-- We manage database and control plane.
-- You self-host lightweight exit-node.
-- Traffic flows through your infra.
-- We coordinate failover between your nodes or to Cloud when things go bad.
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-Try it out using [Pangolin Cloud](https://pangolin.fossorial.io)
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-### Full Enterprise On-Premises
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-[Contact us](mailto:numbat@fossorial.io) for a full distributed and enterprise deployments on your infrastructure controlled by your team.
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-## Project Development / Roadmap
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-We want to hear your feature requests! Add them to the [discussion board](https://github.com/orgs/fosrl/discussions/categories/feature-requests).
+For Pangolin's managed service, you will first need to create an account at
+[pangolin.fossorial.io](https://pangolin.fossorial.io). We have a generous free tier to get started.
## Licensing
-Pangolin is dual licensed under the AGPL-3 and the Fossorial Commercial license. For inquiries about commercial licensing, please contact us at [numbat@fossorial.io](mailto:numbat@fossorial.io).
+Pangolin is dual licensed under the AGPL-3 and the [Fossorial Commercial License](https://digpangolin.com/fcl.html). For inquiries about commercial licensing, please contact us at [contact@fossorial.io](mailto:contact@fossorial.io).
## Contributions
-Looking for something to contribute? Take a look at issues marked with [help wanted](https://github.com/fosrl/pangolin/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20label%3A%22help%20wanted%22). Also take a look through the freature requests in Discussions - any are available and some are marked as a good first issue.
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Please see [CONTRIBUTING](./CONTRIBUTING.md) in the repository for guidelines and best practices.
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-Please post bug reports and other functional issues in the [Issues](https://github.com/fosrl/pangolin/issues) section of the repository.
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-If you are looking to help with translations, please contribute [on Crowdin](https://crowdin.com/project/fossorial-pangolin) or open a PR with changes to the translations files found in `messages/`.
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