Introducing Gateway for all our Montel clients

Displaying a company dashboard you hurriedly vibe-coded last night should be as simple as opening it in your browser. No terminal detour. No Kubernetes port-forwarding trickery. And no massive fear that it'll leak the production database to the darkweb.

Meet Montel Gateway, our next addition to MontelCare. Gateway brings your Montel services and your own private in-cluster tools together behind a single entry point, with sign-in handled securely through Montel ID. You no longer need to add "make it secure" to your prompts and cross your fingers. Montel Gateway will make sure your services are only accessed by identified and authorized people (and agents).

Secure open source foundation to build on

Montel Gateway is built on Pomerium, an open-source identity-aware proxy, with our custom user interface, integrations and authentication via Montel ID on top. Pomerium builds on the principles of Zero Trust and BeyondCorp to deliver a modern approach to enterprise level security.

So Gateway checks who you are and whether you are allowed to access a service before connecting you to it. The service itself can stay inside your cluster, without a public DNS record of its own.

A smaller public footprint

An internal dashboard does not need its own public address just because your team needs to use it. With Gateway, private services can stay off public DNS and avoid direct exposure to the internet. That leaves fewer service-specific clues for opportunistic attackers, script kiddies and all that rogue AI roaming the internet these days.

The protection comes from controlled access: Montel ID handles identity, and Gateway enforces who can reach the services behind it. Your organisation manages user accounts at id.montel.fi, keeping access tied to the people who should have it. Easier for you and invisible to the rest of the world.

All your Montel services, together

We've also decided to make Gateway the front door to other Montel services you already use, including MIR, GitLab and Rancher.

There is room for a few more services, too. We have some gifts lined up for the coming weeks, but we will leave those wrapped for now…

Bring your own services

Cluster specific services like Grafana are obvious beneficiaries from Gateway, but you can also add your own. Any app you deployed on the cluster can now enjoy centralized login via Montel ID without any modification to the service itself. This includes quick prototypes, business dashboards, admin interfaces, local LLM services, etc.

Want some more links in your gateway? Get in contact with us and lets add them.

Come on in

We are starting to onboard MontelCare customers to Gateway as part of this week's release. Your Montel services and your private tools —all within easier reach.

Your new starting point 👉🏻 gateway.montel.care.