Octelium provides a scalable zero trust architecture (ZTA) for identity-based, application-layer (L7) aware secret-less secure access, via both private client-based access over WireGuard/QUIC tunnels as well as public clientless access (i.e. BeyondCorp), for users, both humans and workloads, to any private/internal resource behind NAT in any environment as well as to publicly protected resources such as SaaS APIs and databases via context-aware access control on a per-request basis through policy-as-code.
I'd like to point out that this is not an MVP, as I said earlier I've been working on this project solely for way too many years now. The status of the project is basically public beta or simply v1.0 with bugs (hopefully nothing too embarrassing). The APIs have been stabilized, the architecture and almost all features have been stabilized too. Basically the only thing that keeps it from being v1.0 is the lack of testing in production (for example, most of my own usage is on Linux machines and containers, as opposed to Windows or Mac) but hopefully that will improve soon. Secondly, Octelium is not a yet another crippled freemium product with an """open source""" label that's designed to force you to buy a separate fully functional SaaS version of it. Octelium has no SaaS offerings nor does it require some paid cloud-based control plane. In other words, Octelium is truly meant for self-hosting. Finally, I am not backed by VC and so far this has been simply a one-man show even though I'd like to believe that I did put enough effort to produce a better overall quality before daring to publicly release it than that of a typical one-man project considering the project's atypical size and nature.
sybercecurity•4h ago
One issue I've heard from ZTA early adopters is the lack of interoperability between the various ZTNA solutions. Not a big problem unless you have two organizations that have different solutions that now have to work together (merger, partnership, etc.). Ironically, I have overheard people complain enough that they would pay for a FOSS solution...
geoctl•4h ago