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License Boundary Enterprise

The Boundary Enterprise binaries require a license key to enforce entitlements and time restrictions according to your contractual agreement. Once purchased, your HashiCorp account team send you a valid Boundary license for environment activation. If you don't yet have an acccount team, but are interested in Boundary Enterprise, you can request access here.

Once you have received your valid Boundary license, there are two options for enabling Boundary Enterprise:

1. You may set the enterprise license for Boundary using an environment variable. Set the BOUNDARY_LICENSE environment variable to the license key value you received:

   $ export BOUNDARY_LICENSE=02MV4UU43BK5...

   or

   $ BOUNDARY_LICENSE=file:///folder_path/license.hclic

2. You may specify the enterprise license key in the Boundary controller configuration using the license attribute in the controller block. You can either specify the raw license key or the path to a file containing the license key. Refer to the sample configurations below:

   Sample #1

   controller {
     name = "controller"
     description = "controller"
     database {
       url = "postgresql://boundary:PASSWORD@127.0.0.1:5432/boundary"
     }
     public_cluster_addr = "boundary.domain"
     license = "file:///folder_path/license.hclic"
   }

   Sample #2

   controller {
     name = "controller"
     description = "controller"
     database {
       url = "postgresql://boundary:PASSWORD@127.0.0.1:5432/boundary"
     }
     public_cluster_addr = "boundary.domain"
     license = "02MV4UU43BK5..."
   }

   Refer to the controller configuration documentation for more information.