Just-in-Time Access Approval

The request hits your screen. You need production access now, not in three days. The change is critical. The pressure is real.

Just-in-Time Access Approval cuts through that delay. When self-hosted, it gives you full control over the access lifecycle, the approval flow, and the audit trail—without routing sensitive requests through third-party clouds.

A self-hosted just-in-time access system runs on your own infrastructure. It integrates with your identity provider, your CI/CD pipeline, your secrets manager. Requests trigger alerts to approvers. Approvals expire automatically. Access is provisioned and revoked in minutes, without lingering entitlements.

Key benefits:

• Security: Reduce the window of exposure. No standing credentials. Everything is time-limited.
• Compliance: Continuous logging of who requested what, who approved it, and when it was revoked.
• Control: Customize the approval workflows. Define fine-grained roles. Store logs on your own systems for long-term retention.
• Integration: Connect to GitHub, GitLab, AWS IAM, Kubernetes RBAC, and internal tools.

A self-hosted just-in-time approval service must be simple to deploy and fast to run. Docker or Kubernetes should handle the core components. APIs should be predictable. The UI should make requests and approvals intuitive. Latency should be near zero so access feels instant.

When you own the deployment, you decide the rules: approval thresholds, multi-factor requirements, on-call escalation policies. You can air‑gap it, keep it in a private subnet, or connect it to chat-based approval bots. Integration tests can run locally with production‑like configurations before any rollout.

Teams that implement self-hosted just-in-time access approval see fewer incidents from stale credentials. They onboard and offboard engineers without waiting on manual permissions cleanup. They meet compliance targets without extra overhead.

Control access on your terms. Prevent privilege creep before it starts. Build a faster, safer approval pipeline.

Test it in your own environment now—visit hoop.dev and see a just-in-time access approval system running live in minutes.