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Octelium

A next-gen FOSS self-hosted unified zero trust secure access platform that can operate as a remote access VPN, a ZTNA platform, API/AI/MCP gateway, a PaaS, an ngrok-alternative and a homelab infrastructure.

Active
Health87
Shipping93
Score89
Confidence90
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ModeSource-visible project
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