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page_title: Boundary Community Edition
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description: An introduction to Boundary Community Edition
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# Boundary Community Edition
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Boundary provides secure remote access to critical systems with fine-grained
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authorizations based on trusted identities. While HCP Boundary provides a
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managed solution, Boundary Community Edition is a self-managed distribution that organizations
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can deploy on-premise to manage access to infrastructure endpoints. The source
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code for Boundary Community Edition is freely available on GitHub. The following sections
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contain information on the use case for Boundary and how to install and
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configure self-managed Boundary environments.
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Traditional approaches like SSH bastion hosts or VPNs require distributing and
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managing credentials, configuring network controls like firewalls, and exposing
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the private network. Boundary Community Edition provides secure access to hosts and critical
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systems without having to manage credentials or expose your network, and is
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free.
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Boundary Community Edition is designed to be straightforward to understand, highly scalable,
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and resilient. It can run in clouds, on-premise, or within secure enclaves.
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Boundary does not require an agent to be installed on the end host.
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## Tutorial
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Refer to the [Get Started with self-hosted Boundary](/boundary/tutorials/oss-getting-started) tutorial series to learn how to install and configure Boundary.
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