Self-Hosted Just-In-Time Access: Secure, Temporary Permissions on Your Own Infrastructure

The request hit the queue at midnight. A new contractor needed privileged access. No one wanted to hand out standing credentials again.

Just-In-Time (JIT) Access in a self-hosted instance solves this problem with speed and precision. It gives temporary, scoped permissions exactly when needed, then removes them automatically. No idle accounts. No stale keys. No guessing who still has access.

A self-hosted JIT Access deployment keeps your secrets and control in your own infrastructure. It integrates with your identity provider, source control, CI/CD pipeline, and secrets manager. You decide the policies, approval flows, and session lifetimes. Audit logs record every request and action for compliance.

To set up a self-hosted instance, start with an environment you control: Kubernetes, bare metal, or a VM cluster. Install the JIT Access server, connect it to your authentication backend, and register the resources or environments eligible for requests. Define policies that limit scope by role, repo, branch, or IP range. Configure your integrations so access requests can be triggered from chat, web UI, or CLI.

Real-time approvals let operators grant access without leaving their tools. When the window ends, permissions vanish. There is no manual cleanup, no risk of forgotten credentials. This improves security posture while reducing overhead for engineering and operations teams.

JIT Access is not limited to one type of target. You can manage cloud consoles, production databases, internal dashboards, or SSH access to critical systems. The self-hosted model ensures low-latency decisions and keeps sensitive metadata inside your network.

Security reviews now look different. Access control becomes an automated, enforceable workflow instead of a spreadsheet and a hope. Every grant is tied to a purpose and time-limited. Every action is logged.

Control, visibility, and speed can live together. See how a just-in-time access self-hosted instance works in practice. Launch one on your own hardware and connect it to your stack. Visit hoop.dev and have it running in minutes.