Cardea
★ 17European Union Public License 1.2Fully Open
About
Cardea is an SSH bastion server intended for small and mid-sized teams that manage infrastructure as code. It centralizes access to backend servers while keeping authorization rules in a plain text...
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DockerBinarySelf-ContainedOffline CapableMulti-User
Features
- SSH bastion access control
- Session recording
- TPM-backed private key protection
- Text-file access rules
- Authorized-keys-based policy
- Local/remote port forwarding controls
- Unix socket forwarding controls
- Environment variable controls
- Rate limiting
- Health/metrics server
Details
- Last Updated
- May 10, 2026
- Created
- Oct 7, 2025
- Install Methods
- dockerbinary
- Requirements
- SSH clientsNo databaseNo web UITPM device (optional for TPM mode)
- Authentication
- local
- Backup & Export
- file-backupnative-export
- Runtime / Stack
- GoDocker
- Privacy & Independence
- No Cloud RequiredOffline Capable
- User Model
- Multi-User
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