Boundary

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Access controls

Boundary supports just-in-time and least-privilege network access, role-based authorization, and single sign-on through OIDC and LDAP.developer.hashicorp.com · read 7 Oct 2026

Access model

It centralizes access control, applies role-based permissions, and creates auditable sessions while protecting credentials and network details.developer.hashicorp.com · read 15 Oct 2026

API

Boundary exposes a REST API with correlation IDs, rate limiting, filtering, pagination, and standard resource methods.developer.hashicorp.com · read 15 Oct 2026

Authentication

Supported authentication methods are password, OpenID Connect, and LDAP, with OIDC examples including Okta, Auth0, and Microsoft Entra ID.developer.hashicorp.com · read 15 Oct 2026

Automation

Boundary supports Terraform for automated deployment and configuration and provides a REST API, CLI, and SDK.developer.hashicorp.com · read 7 Oct 2026

Cloud integrations

Documented dynamic host catalogs cover AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, and AWS catalogs can authenticate with IAM AssumeRole.developer.hashicorp.com · read 15 Oct 2026

Community-edition status

HashiCorp announced October 2026 that Community Edition is deprecated, archived, read-only, and will receive no new releases, fixes, or security patches.discuss.hashicorp.com · read 15 Oct 2026

Company funding and ownership record

Crunchbase lists HashiCorp as acquired by IBM and records 16 investors, including Geodesic Capital and an employee stock-option fund.crunchbase.com · read 15 Oct 2026

Company profile

LinkedIn lists HashiCorp as a public software-development company founded in 2012, headquartered in San Francisco, with 1,001–5,000 employees.linkedin.com · read 15 Oct 2026

Compatible clients

Users can connect through existing tools such as SSH clients, PuTTY, Remote Desktop, database clients, and web browsers.developer.hashicorp.com · read 7 Oct 2026

Credential brokering

Boundary can retrieve centrally stored credentials and return them to users during target connections.developer.hashicorp.com · read 15 Oct 2026

Credential injection

Boundary can inject credentials into sessions so users receive a passwordless connection and never see the secret.developer.hashicorp.com · read 15 Oct 2026

Credential management

Boundary can broker credentials and integrate with HashiCorp Vault for short-lived dynamic credentials and credential injection.developer.hashicorp.com · read 7 Oct 2026

Deployment options

HCP Boundary is managed by HashiCorp with optional customer-run workers, while Boundary Enterprise is self-managed.developer.hashicorp.com · read 7 Oct 2026

Discovery

Boundary automates target discovery and supports dynamic host catalogs for AWS, Azure, and GCP in HCP Boundary.developer.hashicorp.com · read 7 Oct 2026

Documentation depth

The documentation set covers CLI, API, domain model, HCP deployment, target connections, HCL configuration, permissions, data security, TLS connections, and filtering.developer.hashicorp.com · read 15 Oct 2026

Dynamic discovery

Terraform discovery and dynamic host catalogs can automatically onboard targets and track changing IP addresses without an agent.developer.hashicorp.com · read 15 Oct 2026

Free access

HashiCorp's Boundary product page says users can get started for free, and the developer site offers HCP Boundary for free.hashicorp.com · read 7 Oct 2026

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