Your Bastion Host is Slowing You Down

That single server standing between your dev team and the resources they need is now a bottleneck. Managing it takes time. Updating it takes even more. It introduces security gaps when misconfigured, and it adds network hops that burn seconds at scale. The days of babysitting a bastion box are over. There is now a faster, more secure way to access your private infrastructure: a self-hosted Bastion Host replacement that you control, deploy in minutes, and forget about.

A Bastion Host replacement in a self-hosted instance eliminates the compromises of the old approach. No more manual SSH keys scattered across laptops. No more shared credentials in hidden corner scripts. No exposed IPs waiting for a scan bot to find them. Instead, you get secure, audited, role-based access that works across Kubernetes clusters, private APIs, and internal services—without a single external gatekeeper server to patch.

This transformation starts with shifting the control plane. Rather than anchoring it to a central bastion, the control runs inside your own infrastructure, isolated yet reachable with a secure, identity-aware connection. You define who can get in, what they can touch, and how long their access lasts. Every session is logged. Every action is tied back to a verified identity.

Self-hosting your Bastion Host replacement means you use your own cloud, data center, or hybrid setup as the base. Your secrets stay where they are. The attack surface stays small. DNS routing, role management, and session audits integrate directly with your workflows. From the first start command to the moment your team can connect, the process takes minutes, not hours.

Traditional bastions were built for a simpler era. Security teams needed a choke point. Developers needed a door. That door became a liability the moment teams scaled, networks grew complex, and attackers automated their scans. A modern, self-hosted alternative lets you keep the door closed until someone with the right identity knocks—and then it locks itself again.

This isn’t about incremental improvements. It’s about dismantling a fragile single point of failure and replacing it with a distributed, identity-first access layer that is safer, faster, and easier to operate.

You can try it today. With hoop.dev, you can see a Bastion Host replacement live in your own stack in minutes. Self-host it, integrate it, and give your team the access they need—without the risks and slowdowns of yesterday’s bastion.