# Pangolin

Open-source networking and security platform that exposes web applications and private networks through a reverse proxy and WireGuard tunnels.


Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/pangolin/
Last reviewed: 2026-10-30
Listed since: 2026-10-30

## Record

### Links

- home: https://pangolin.net
- repository: https://github.com/fosrl/pangolin
- docs: https://docs.pangolin.net/
- pricing: https://pangolin.net/pricing
- discord: https://discord.gg/HCJR8Xhme4
- youtube: https://pangolin.net/youtube

### Identity

- status: active
- maintainer: Fossorial, Inc.
- maintainerType: company
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: 2025
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

- category: web-server
- hosting: node
- language: javascript
- runtime: node
- runtimeMin: unknown
- basedOn: unknown

### Content

- contentStore: not applicable
- databases: sqlite, postgres
- adminUi: yes
- headlessApi: not applicable
- templating: not applicable
- i18n: not applicable

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: always-on
- renderingModes: not applicable
- installMethod: docker compose

### License

- licenseModel: open-core
- license: AGPL-3.0, Fossorial Commercial License, SEE LICENSE IN LICENSE AND README.md

### Releases

- currentMajor: 1
- latestReleaseDate: 2026-10-23

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 23269
- packagistDownloads: not applicable
- npmWeeklyDownloads: unknown
- contributors: 120
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: unknown
- dependentPackages: unknown

### Sources

- name: https://github.com/fosrl/pangolin/blob/main/README.md (read 2026-10-30)
- urls: https://pangolin.net/ (read 2026-10-30)
- urls: https://api.github.com/repos/fosrl/pangolin (read 2026-10-30)
- urls: https://github.com/fosrl/pangolin/blob/main/README.md (read 2026-10-30)
- maintainer: https://github.com/fosrl/pangolin/blob/main/LICENSE (read 2026-10-30)
- maintainerType: https://pangolin.net/fcl (read 2026-10-30)
- firstRelease: https://api.github.com/repos/fosrl/pangolin/commits/a8172763a45f22120b9e8f00212025dcd2ea1f9a (read 2026-10-30)
- category: https://github.com/fosrl/pangolin/blob/main/README.md (read 2026-10-30)
- language: https://api.github.com/repos/fosrl/pangolin (read 2026-10-30)
- runtime: https://github.com/fosrl/pangolin/blob/1.25.3/Dockerfile (read 2026-10-30)
- runsAs: https://docs.pangolin.net/development/system-architecture (read 2026-10-30)
- installMethod: https://docs.pangolin.net/self-host/manual/docker-compose (read 2026-10-30)
- installMethod: https://docs.pangolin.net/self-host/quick-install (read 2026-10-30)
- adminUi: https://docs.pangolin.net/self-host/quick-install (read 2026-10-30)
- license: https://github.com/fosrl/pangolin/blob/main/README.md (read 2026-10-30)
- license: https://github.com/fosrl/pangolin/blob/main/README.md (read 2026-10-30)
- license: https://github.com/fosrl/pangolin/blob/1.25.3/package.json (read 2026-10-30)
- licenseModel: https://github.com/fosrl/pangolin/blob/main/README.md (read 2026-10-30)
- licenseModel: https://github.com/fosrl/pangolin/blob/main/README.md (read 2026-10-30)
- urls: https://pangolin.net/pricing (read 2026-10-30)
- currentMajor: https://github.com/fosrl/pangolin/releases/tag/1.25.3 (read 2026-10-30)
- latestReleaseDate: https://github.com/fosrl/pangolin/releases/tag/1.25.3 (read 2026-10-30)
- githubStargazers: https://api.github.com/repos/fosrl/pangolin (read 2026-10-30)
- contributors: https://api.github.com/repos/fosrl/pangolin/contributors?per_page=1 (read 2026-10-30)
- databases: https://docs.pangolin.net/self-host/advanced/database-options (read 2026-10-30)

## Notes

Pangolin publishes web applications and private networks through a reverse proxy and WireGuard tunnels, and applies identity-based access rules to them. The control plane is the Pangolin server application. It keeps its state in a SQLite or PostgreSQL database and pushes configuration to nodes, site connectors and clients over WebSocket. Users can sign in through an external OIDC identity provider. The [quick install guide](https://docs.pangolin.net/self-host/quick-install) runs a self-hosted server through an installer that starts its containers with Docker. A node runs several cooperating processes, among them Traefik and Gerbil, as the [system architecture](https://docs.pangolin.net/development/system-architecture) page describes. Pangolin Cloud, a managed service, runs the same codebase as the self-hosted server.

## Worth knowing

The repository is not uniformly AGPL-3: files that carry the Fossorial Commercial License header follow that license instead. The Enterprise Edition features need a license key on a separate Docker image, as the [Enterprise Edition page](https://docs.pangolin.net/self-host/enterprise-edition) states.

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