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Pangolin is an open-source SASE platform, built on WireGuard®, with a simple mission: connect and protect your users, wherever they are. It brings networking and security together as one system including a zero-trust VPN, zero-trust reverse proxy, privileged access management, and an identity-aware AI gateway, all sharing one identity and policy model. It's the same idea behind platforms like Cloudflare One, Zscaler, and Prisma but open, self-hostable, and built to stay light and easy to deploy.
Legacy SASE platforms got the idea right: connectivity and security belong together. But they delivered it as a heavyweight, closed, cloud-locked stack assembled from years of patchwork. Pangolin exists to do that unification differently, in the open, self-hostable, and simple enough that administrators actually enjoy running it.
Pangolin's site connectors provide gateways into networks so you can access any networked resources. Sites use outbound tunnels and intelligent NAT traversal to make networks behind restrictive firewalls available for authorized access without public IPs or open ports. Easily deploy a site as a binary or container on any platform.
Expose HTTPS web applications and connect to VNC, RDP, and SSH entirely in the browser through identity and context-aware tunneled reverse proxies. Users access resources with authentication and granular access control without installing a client. Pangolin handles routing, load balancing, health checking, and automatic SSL certificates without exposing your network directly to the internet.
Access private resources like SSH servers, databases, RDP, and entire network ranges through Pangolin clients. Intelligent NAT traversal enables connections even through restrictive firewalls, while DNS aliases provide friendly names and fast connections to resources across all your sites. Add redundancy by routing traffic through multiple connectors in your network.
Put an identity-aware proxy in front of public cloud (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, etc.) and self-hosted model servers (Ollama, vLLM, Mistral, etc.) so coding agents and AI clients call a single Pangolin URL. Publish it as a public resource with personal API keys, or keep it private on a client tunnel where the connected client is the credential for keyless access. Budgets, session history, and usage analytics sit in front of every call.
Use Pangolin's built-in users or bring your own identity provider and set up role-based access control (RBAC). Grant users access to specific resources, not entire networks. Unlike traditional VPNs that expose full network access, Pangolin's zero-trust model ensures users can only reach the applications, services, and routes you explicitly define.
Give users a landing page to quickly find and open the resources they can access. Resources are grouped by site or label, searchable, and filterable, with grid or list views. Saved views capture filters, grouping, and layout as personal or organization-wide defaults.
Download the Pangolin client for your platform:
Create a free account at app.pangolin.net to get started with Pangolin Cloud.
We encourage everyone to read the full documentation first, which is available at docs.pangolin.net. This README provides only a very brief subset of the docs to illustrate some basic ideas.
Pangolin is dual licensed under the AGPL-3 and the Fossorial Commercial License. For inquiries about commercial licensing, please contact us at [email protected].
Please see CONTRIBUTING in the repository for guidelines and best practices.