Pomerium is an open-source identity-aware proxy that authenticates and authorizes requests based on your organization's policies. In this tutorial, we will walk through the steps to install Pomerium on Windows 11.
Open a command prompt (Windows PowerShell or Command Prompt) and run the below command to clone the Pomerium repository from GitHub to your local machine.
git clone https://github.com/pomerium/pomerium.git
Navigate to the directory where you cloned the Pomerium repository and execute the below commands to build Pomerium.
cd pomerium
go build .
After building, execute the below command to run the Pomerium binary.
./pomerium.exe
Make sure to replace pomerium.exe with pomerium if you are using a UNIX-based system.
After running the Pomerium binary, open the web browser and type https://localhost:4433. This opens the Pomerium dashboard. The default username and password are admin@example.com and password respectively.
In this tutorial, we have learned how to install Pomerium on Windows 11 OS. With Pomerium, we can secure our web applications and resources by using identity-based access policies.
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