The bastion host is dead.

For years, Cloud Foundry teams have relied on bastion hosts for secure platform access. They sat in the middle, gating SSH sessions and shielding sensitive environments. But they’re slow. They’re brittle. And with modern needs for zero trust security, fast onboarding, and real-time troubleshooting, they’ve become a bottleneck.

A bastion host replacement for Cloud Foundry should do more than swap one jump box for another. It should remove friction, enforce security, and fit into ephemeral and containerized workflows. The right approach means engineers can connect to apps, services, and system components without waiting on manual key distribution, VPN hassle, or SSH tunnels that vanish when someone misconfigures firewall rules.

Zero trust access beats the static bastion pattern. Instead of centralizing login at a single machine, every request is authenticated, authorized, and audited against an identity provider. For Cloud Foundry operators, that means instant compliance alignment, faster onboarding, and no standing access. Engineers get just-in-time credentials that vanish after use, and logs that trace every command run against the platform.

Network segmentation strengthens this further. Where a bastion host exposed a potential single point of failure, modern replacements integrate tightly with Cloud Foundry’s routing and security groups. Access can be scoped to an app, a space, or a specific job in the platform, with no blanket exposure.

The best bastion host replacement for Cloud Foundry eliminates static secrets entirely. It integrates with your existing SSO, enforces MFA, and gives you secure, auditable sessions through HTTPS instead of raw SSH. No TCP juggling. No waiting. It works anywhere your team already runs a browser.

Cloud Foundry is designed to be fast, portable, and secure. Your access layer should be the same. hoop.dev delivers that. You can connect, control, and observe your platform without the drag of old infrastructure. See it live in minutes and move your team past bastion hosts for good.