Cardea
Cardea is an open-source, self-hosted app in the Remote Access category, licensed EUPL-1.2 and written mainly in Go. It ships a Docker image. It has 36 GitHub stars and its last commit was on Oct 14, 2026 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
- Remote Access
- Go
- EUPL-1.2
- Docker
- Active
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 36
- Forks
- 2
- Open issues
- 1
- Commits, last 12 months
- 287
- Last commit
- Oct 14, 2026
- Latest release
- v1.9.2Sep 2, 2026
- Created
- Oct 7, 2025
- License
- EUPL-1.2Open source
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Project health
ActiveActive: last commit Oct 14, 2026, 287 commits in 12 months.
- Regular releases10 or more releases in 12 months
- Security policyPublishes a security policy on GitHub
| Last commit | Oct 14, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 287 |
| Latest release | v1.9.2 (Sep 2, 2026) |
| Releases, last 12 months | 10 or more |
| Releases, all time | 21 |
| Open issues | 1 |
| Open pull requests | 4 |
| Good first issues | 0 |
| Contributing guide | No |
| Security policy | Yes |
| Created | Oct 7, 2025 |
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About Cardea
SSH bastion server with access control, session recording, and optional TPM-backed key protection.
Description adapted from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0). Source code: github.com/hectorm/cardea.
Topics
- audit
- bastion
- firewall
- networking
- security
- ssh
- tpm
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Is Cardea free and open source?
Yes. Cardea is open-source software released under the EUPL-1.2 license, so you can self-host it at no cost. You only pay for the server it runs on, and some projects also offer an optional paid cloud plan.
Can I run Cardea with Docker?
Yes. Cardea provides a Docker image, so you can run it on any Linux server with Docker and Docker Compose installed. The project README lists the image name and the environment variables to set.
What are the best alternatives to Cardea?
Popular self-hosted alternatives to Cardea include Puter, Pangolin and Termix.
Is Cardea actively maintained?
The most recent commit to Cardea was on Oct 14, 2026 with 287 commits in the past twelve months. The latest release is v1.9.2, published Sep 2, 2026. It had 1 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Active" as of Oct 26, 2026.