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Pomerium

Identity-aware reverse proxy, successor to now obsolete oauth_proxy. It inserts an OAuth step before proxying your request to the backend, so that you can safely expose your self-hosted websites to public Internet.

Description from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Still maintained? Yes: 177 commits in the last 90 days, latest release v0.33.6 (Oct 2026).

Docker #8 of 19 in Web Servers

At a glance

Pomerium quick facts

Health score
95/100 GOOD
Stars
5,082
Last commit
today (Oct 2026)
Latest release
v0.33.6, Oct 2026
Licence
Apache-2.0
View pomerium/pomerium on GitHub ↗ Website ↗

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In its own words

The project's README opens: "Pomerium is an identity and context-aware reverse proxy. Pomerium builds secure, clientless connections to internal web apps and other services without a corporate VPN."

Why it ranks here

Health score explained

Pomerium scores 95/100, #8 of 19 in Web Servers: 177 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the latest release (v0.33.6, 3 days ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 5,082 stars add 14.8 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and Docker support adds the final 10. That places it in the good band (70 and above). The biggest shortfall is star count, worth 5.2 more points.

Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.

  • Commit activity 35.0 / 35

    177 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)

  • Release recency 25.0 / 25

    v0.33.6 released 3 days ago

  • Stars biggest shortfall 14.8 / 20

    5.1k stars on GitHub (logarithmic)

  • Not archived 10.0 / 10

    Repository is active

  • Docker support 10.0 / 10

    Docker image or Compose file available

Commit activity

660 commits over the last 12 months
177
Last 90 days
660
Last 12 months
today
Last push

Ranked #8 of 19 tools in Web Servers by health , between BunkerWeb (#7) and Zoraxy (#9) .

Details

LicenceApache-2.0
PlatformsGo, Docker
Latest releasev0.33.6 · 3 days ago
Stars5,082
Open issues90
DockerYes
Repositorypomerium/pomerium ↗
Visit website ↗ Source code ↗

Pomerium vs its top 5 alternatives

Active tools that share a category with Pomerium (Web Servers), scored on the same five terms.

Tool Health Stars Licence Last commit
Traefik 99 65k MIT today
NGINX 98 32k BSD-2-Clause yesterday
Pangolin 97 23k AGPL-3.0 yesterday
SafeLine 97 23k GPL-3.0 8 days ago
Pomerium (this tool) 95 5.1k Apache-2.0 today
Zoraxy 95 5.6k AGPL-3.0 yesterday

Pomerium: common questions

Is Pomerium still maintained?

Pomerium had 177 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was today; the latest tagged release, v0.33.6, is from 3 days ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.