Boundary Enterprise has features that are not available in the open source version of the product, as well as support.
Boundary Enterprise has features that are not available in the Community Edition of the product, as well as support.
The Enterprise version is self-managed in your environment, making it the perfect choice for agencies that are not able to use SaaS products for compliance or regulatory reasons.
The [Install Boundary](/boundary/docs/install-boundary) section can help you build a self-managed production environment using Boundary Enterprise.
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You can enable or opt out of automated license reporting.
Refer to [Automated license utilization reporting](/boundary/docs/enterprise/automated-license-reporting) for more information.
## Upgrade from Boundary OSS
## Upgrade from Boundary Community Edition
To upgrade from the open source version of Boundary to Boundary Enterprise, complete the following steps:
To upgrade from the Community Edition of Boundary to Boundary Enterprise, complete the following steps:
1. [Contact sales](https://hashicorp.com/contact-sales) to procure a Boundary Enterprise license.
1. [Upgrade Boundary](/boundary/tutorials/self-managed-deployment/upgrade-version) using a Boundary Enterprise binary.
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easiest way to get started. It streamlines deployment and operations, and is
available as a freemium service. HCP Boundary allows users to run their own
worker proxies, preventing exposure of your network to HashiCorp or clients.
HCP Boundary has features that are not available in the open source version of the product, as well as support.
HCP Boundary has features that are not available in the Community Edition of the product, as well as support.
It has full feature-parity with Boundary Enterprise.
Review the [Get
started with HCP Boundary](/boundary/docs/getting-started/deploy-and-login) section to
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It has full feature-parity with HCP Boundary.
The Enterprise version is self-managed in your environment, making it the perfect choice for agencies that are not able to use SaaS products for compliance or regulatory reasons.
The [Install Boundary](/boundary/docs/install-boundary) section can help you build a self-managed production environment using Boundary Enterprise.
- **Boundary OSS** is an open source distribution of Boundary that users can run
- **Boundary Community Edition** is a free distribution of Boundary that users can run
in their own environments. The [Dev Mode quick start](/boundary/docs/oss/installing/dev-mode) section discusses running Boundary
in Dev mode on your local machine, allowing you to get started with the OSS distribution quickly.
in Dev mode on your local machine, allowing you to get started with the Community Edition distribution quickly.
We recommend you use the Boundary model that best meets your intended use case.
If you’re not sure what’s best for you, we recommend reviewing the [Getting
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- **HCP Boundary**: a managed Boundary offering with commercial features. HashiCorp hosts Boundary's control plane and you have the option of running private workers within your environment.
- **Boundary Enterprise**: a self-managed Boundary offering with full feature parity to HCP Boundary.
- **Boundary OSS**: an open source, self-managed version of Boundary.
- **Boundary Community Edition**: a free, self-managed version of Boundary.
If you're not sure which edition is right for you, we recommend [**HCP Boundary**](https://developer.hashicorp.com/boundary/tutorials/hcp-getting-started) because it eliminates deployment operations.
**Boundary Enterprise**: Organizations are now able to deploy Boundary Enterprise within their self-managed infrastructure to let their teams securely access hosts and services consistently across any environment.
The introduction of Boundary Enterprise allows organizations in highly regulated industries who are prohibited from adopting cloud based solutions to leverage Boundary's secure remote access functionalities.
Boundary Enterprise has the same feature set as HCP Boundary and seamless migrations from OSS deployments are supported as well.
Boundary Enterprise has the same feature set as HCP Boundary and seamless migrations from Community Edition deployments are supported as well.
For more information, refer to [Boundary Enterprise](/boundary/docs/enterprise).
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[tutorials](/boundary/tutorials/access-management/oss-vault-cred-brokering-quickstart) of this scenario.
2. Boundary can use Vault as an OIDC provider to enable sign-in with Vault's supported auth methods (even non-OIDC auth methods like Active Directory kerberos/LDAP).
This scenario is walked through in this [tutorial](/vault/tutorials/auth-methods/oidc-identity-provider).
3. OSS Boundary can use Vault as the external KMS that serves as Boundary's root of trust. More information on this use case can be found
3. Boundary Community Edition can use Vault as the external KMS that serves as Boundary's root of trust. More information on this use case can be found
[here](/boundary/docs/configuration/kms/transit).
## Q: What identity providers does Boundary support?
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**Session Logging/Monitoring:** Supported. Boundary creates a session log of all sessions created between identities and targets that have been onboarded to
Boundary. You can learn how to monitor these sessions in this [tutorial](/boundary/tutorials/getting-started/getting-started-connect#manage-sessions).
Boundary supports audit logs for [Boundary OSS](/boundary/tutorials/oss-configuration/event-logging) and [audit log streaming](/hcp/docs/boundary/audit-logging)
Boundary supports audit logs for [Boundary Community Edition](/boundary/tutorials/oss-configuration/event-logging) and [audit log streaming](/hcp/docs/boundary/audit-logging)
for HCP Boundary. Audit logs for both distributions can be exported to SIEM or BI tools.
**Session Termination:** Supported. Session termination for Boundary administrators is a supported capability, as demonstrated in this