awesome-tunneling VS yunohost

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awesome-tunneling

List of ngrok/Cloudflare Tunnel alternatives and other tunneling software and services. Focus on self-hosting. (by anderspitman)

yunohost

YunoHost is an operating system aiming to simplify as much as possible the administration of a server. This repository corresponds to the core code, written mostly in Python and Bash. (by YunoHost)
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awesome-tunneling

Posts with mentions or reviews of awesome-tunneling. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-21.
  • Tunnelmole, an ngrok alternative (open source)
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Mar 2024
    I haven't tried vscode forwarding. What features does it have that are missing from most of the options on the list[0]?

    If you want a nice GUI for remote managing maybe check out one of my tools, boringproxy

    [0]: https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling

    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Mar 2024
    I maintain a list of similar tools here:

    https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling

    I'm not sure there's a single class of software that's been implemented more times than ngrok-style tunneling. I keep finding more and more.

    Honestly it's a really fun exercise. Fairly challenging, but well within the reach of a single developer. I'm currently working on my 4th incarnation.

  • JIT WireGuard
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Mar 2024
    I maintain this list:

    https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling

    Your use case sounds interesting and there may be a tool out there that will do it, but I can't quite wrap my head around your description of how everything is connected and what runs where with your current setup.

    I agree with sibling that my main question is what prevents you from using SSHFS or similar?

  • Would we still create Nebula today?
    14 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Oct 2023
    We have a section for overlay networks on the tunneling list[0] I maintain. This is a very interesting space with some excellent software.

    I certainly have my gripes about the closed nature of Slack itself, in particular using a closed protocol when the model is clearly "federated" between multiple servers internally. That said, the contribution of something on the scale and quality of Nebula back to the open source community is hard to argue with.

    [0]: https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling#overlay-ne...

  • Every Phone Should Be Able to Run Personal Website – Rohanrd.xyz
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Aug 2023
    I'm a big proponent of this idea. Unfortunately IPv6 alone isn't enough, due to firewalls. It's just not realistic for the average person to be expected to set up port forwarding etc. Now, if something like UPnP was universally deployed alongside IPv6, that would pretty much do it.

    Personally, I think the future of self hosting is going to happen through IPv4 tunnels[0] with SNI routing. You also get the added benefit of not exposing your actual IP address, and dealing with things like DDoS become the tunnel provider's concern.

    [0]: https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling

    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Aug 2023
    Lots of alternatives to Ngrok and Cloudflare - https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling. What we need is more open source and permissives ones which are well maintained and easy to use. fwiw, I work on one in the list called zrok.io, its open source and we have a free SaaS version.

    I dont think (as the author suggests) that IPv6 everywhere is happening anytime soon.

  • Tailscale vs. Narrowlink
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Aug 2023
  • Tor is not just for anonymity
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Jul 2023
    The internet is no longer as peer-to-peer friendly as it once was. Hence the existence of commercially-motivated hacks run by third parties such as hosting, e.g., Cloudflare, etc., including tunneling, e.g., ngrok, etc. Alternatively, Tor relies on third parties but AFAIK it's not so centralised and it's not commercially-motivated.

    That is what differentiates it from all the other options. There is no company behind it trying to make money by exploiting internet subscribers trying to connect with each other (not the so-called "tech" company).

    Tor can have uses other than the ones normally discussed such as anonymity and evading censorship. Tor can provide reachability without use of commercial eavesdropping third party intermediaries.

    For example, one can use Onion Services for advertising open IP:port information that is needed for peer-to-peer connections over other, faster peer-to-peer overlay networks, not the Tor network. The Onion Service can function as the "rendezvous" server for making peer-to-peer connection outside of Tor. Tor's Onion Services can be used to exchange IP:port information for making direct connections over the internet without using Tor. No need to use commercial third parties. Ngrok, Tailscale, etc. all require use of servers run by a commercial third party. Tor does not. There is ample free software that can establish peer-to-peer connections over the internet but in every case it requires some reachable server running this software on the internet, and for most users that means they have to run a server and pay a commercial third party for hosting. Tor has no such requirement.

    Imagine being able to share content with family, friends, colleagues without the need for so-called "tech" companies^1 acting as intermediaries ("middlemen"). With a reachable IPv4 address this becomes possible. It would be nice if every home internet access subscriber received a reachable IPv4 address from their ISP. No doubt, some do. But on today's internet most do not. The so-called "tech" companies all have reachable IPv4 addresses. Hence they assume the roles of middlemen and use this position to exploit internet subscribers for profit.

    Something like Tor provides a solution. Again, it is not always necessary to route all traffic over Tor. Tor can have other uses. When the goal is simply peer-to-peer connections, Onion Services can be used to bootstrap peer-to-peer overlay connections using the user's choice of software by providing a secure, reliable way to exchange IP:port information. Goal here when using Tor is not anonymity nor censorship evasion, it's reachability. Similarly, goal of peer-to-peer is not necessarily anonymity nor evading censorship either, it's bypassing commercially-motivated, eavesdropping middlemen known as "tech" companies, and avoiding the annoyances of advertising. A possible additional benefot of using Tor in this way is elevated privacy. Google, for example, cannot easily discover Onion Services. No one can discover Onion Services using ICANN DNS.

    1. The term "tech" as in "tech company" means a company, usually a website, that collects data from and about people to support the sale of advertising services because advertising services are the only services the company can sell on a scale large enough to sustain a profitable business.

    More reading/viewing:

    https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling

    Tor Hidden Services (now called "Onion Services")

    https://jamielittle.org/2016/08/28/hidden.html

    As one author wrote on Github:

    "onion-expose is a utility that allows one to easily create and control temporary Tor onion services.

    onion-expose can be used for any sort of TCP traffic, from simple HTTP to Internet radio to Minecraft to SSH servers. It can also be used to expose individual files and allow you to request them from another computer.

    Why not just use ngrok?

    ngrok is nice. But it requires everything to go through a central authority (a potential security issue), and imposes artificial restrictions, such as a limit of one TCP tunnel per user. It also doesn't allow you to expose files easily (you have to set it up yourself)."

    https://github.com/ethan2-0/onion-expose

    As another Github contributor put it:

    "With onionpipe, that service doesn't need a public IPv4 or IPv6 ingress. You can publish services with a globally-unique persistent onion address, and share access securely and privately to your own allowlist of authorized keys.

    You don't need to rely on, and share your personal data with for-profit services (like Tailscale, ZeroTier, etc.) to get to it."

    https://github.com/cmars/onionpipe

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36734956

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30445421

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29929399

    "Finally, onion services are private by default, meaning that users must discover these sites organically, rather than with a search engine." [Small websites with small audiences get buried by advertising-supported search engines anyway.]

    https://nymity.ch/onion-services/pdf/sec18-onion-services.pd...

    https://media.ccc.de/v/31c3_-_6112_-_en_-_saal_2_-_201412301...

    https://wiki.termux.com/wiki/Bypassing_NAT (Termux recommends Tor over Ngrok)

    https://github.com/ajvb/awesome-tor

  • Serve a service/port on IPFS instead of content, ngrok decentralized alternative?
    2 projects | /r/ipfs | 9 Jul 2023
    It's actually one of the proposed alternatives in this repo: https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling which was one of my main sources of research for a service that I could use, it seems to suggest a lot of open-source self-hostable solutions too.
  • Best 5 ngrok alternatives in 2023
    3 projects | /r/webdev | 6 Jun 2023
    In fact - https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling

yunohost

Posts with mentions or reviews of yunohost. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-25.
  • Ask HN: Tips to get started on my own server
    19 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Mar 2024
    Pull that old laptop from the closet, the one with the broken screen and keyboard which made you so sad to put it to pasture since it did have plenty of memory and CPU to keep up. Install Debian on the thing followed by Proxmox Virtual Environment (PVE) [1]. Since you have 16GB of RAM in that laptop (or 8 but 16 is nicer) you should be able to run a number of containers [2].

    Here's an idea, more or less based on a number of servers I configured for friends and family, based on 8GB Raspberry Pi 4 hardware with 2/4TB USB SSD. Your laptop will offer better performance.

    - Create 4 or 5 containers and name them 'auth', 'serve´, 'base', 'backup' and 'mail' (if you want to run your own mail that is, otherwise skip that one). Their functions are:

    > auth runs LDAP, Kerberos (if you want that), a central letsencrypt instance which takes care of all your certificate needs and anything else related to authentication and authorisation

    > base runs databases, that means Postgresql, Mysql/Mariadb, Redis, RabbitMQ and whatnot - all depending on what you need.

    > serve runs services, that means nginx or another web server which is used as a reverse proxy for the other web-related things you want to run: 'cloud' services like Nextcloud with everything that comes with it (e.g. Collaboraoffice or Onlyoffice to replace whatever web-based office things you currently use), communications services like XMPP, application-specific proxies like Invidious/Nitter/Libreddit, media services like Peertube/Airsonic/Ampache, a Wiki like Bookstack, search services like SearxNG, etc. - the size of your server is the limit.

    > backup runs Proxmox Backup Server and is used to backup everything to some external drive and to some outside repository.

    > mail runs mail services, only if you want to run those. I always say 'do it' but many people have an irrational fear of running their own mail services. That fear is not grounded in truth, running mail is not hard and offers many advantages over hosted solutions.

    While it is possible to separate all the mentioned services out into their own containers I think this adds needless complexity for little to no gain. Separating out database services makes sense since those can end up quite taxing and as such might well be moved to their own hardware in some (possibly not too distant) future. Separating out authentication services makes sense since that lowers the attack surface compared to running them together with externally available services. The same goes for mail services which is why I put those in their own container.

    Once you've got this up and running you can create a few more containers to play around with. If you just want to try out services something like Yunohost [3] or Caprover [4] can come in handy but I do not see these as viable alternatives to installing and running services which you intend to keep around for a long time.

    Of course you can do most of this on a VPS as well but I prefer to keep thing in-house - the fewer dependencies, the better.

    [1] https://proxmox.com/en/

    [2] containers perform better and take less memory than VMs but if VMs are your thing that is possible as well

    [3] https://yunohost.org

    [4] https://caprover.com/

  • Best home OS?
    2 projects | /r/selfhosted | 4 Sep 2023
    YunoHost, although not Docker-based, is still nice and quite mature.
  • RPi 4 Build Recommendations (NAS/VPN/Seedbox/etc)
    3 projects | /r/selfhosted | 27 Jun 2023
    If you want something like that, then CasaOS is pretty great and i can recommend it, especially for a beginner. There is also Cosmos and Tipi. Yunuhost too but a bit different approach. Oh and Umbrel is a thing...
  • The latest umbrelOS release brings a redesigned app store for self-hosted apps
    7 projects | /r/selfhosted | 21 Jun 2023
    However you quickly reach the limits of what Umbrel can do, its very basic in its abilities. Of course it depends all on what you (or anyone else) wants to do with it. There is also CasaOS which is very similar to Umbrel but last i compared, Casa offered a bit more features like for example adding your own docker projects easily. There is also Tipi which i must admit i havent taken a closer look at yet. And there is Yunohost which i guess aims at a similar audience but achieves these things differently, still worth mentioning tho.
  • Sandstorm: Open-source platform for self-hosting web app
    15 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Jun 2023
    This looks exciting and definitely something to look out for as an option fkr self-hosting.

    Similiar and a little bit more mature is also YunoHost, https://yunohost.org/, or for professional environments, UCS https://www.univention.com/.

  • My selfhosted Backup Solution
    2 projects | /r/selfhosted | 22 May 2023
  • Need simple tutorial for getting remote-access nextcloud setup with HTTPS
    2 projects | /r/selfhosted | 27 Apr 2023
    I use https://yunohost.org on my Pi, mostly for monitoring other stuff but you can get Nextcloud running just fine with it!
  • Who is self hosting Mastodon
    3 projects | /r/selfhosted | 27 Apr 2023
    Just FYI it's Very easy to host with https://cloudron.io or https://yunohost.org
  • Immich - Self-hosted photos and videos backup solution from your mobile phone (AKA Google Photos replacement you have been waiting for!) - March late update - now with CLIP-enabled search mechanism.
    8 projects | /r/selfhosted | 29 Mar 2023
    Will this app ever get some love from yunohost.org?
  • Is there a Linux server distro that you can configure stuff like Windows server does?
    2 projects | /r/linuxquestions | 16 Mar 2023

What are some alternatives?

When comparing awesome-tunneling and yunohost you can also consider the following projects:

CasaOS - CasaOS - A simple, easy-to-use, elegant open-source Personal Cloud system.

cloudflared - Cloudflare Tunnel client (formerly Argo Tunnel)

umbrel - A beautiful home server OS for self-hosting with an app store. Buy a pre-built Umbrel Home with umbrelOS, or install on a Raspberry Pi 4, Pi 5, any Ubuntu/Debian system, or a VPS.

OpenMediaVault - openmediavault is the next generation network attached storage (NAS) solution based on Debian Linux. Thanks to the modular design of the framework it can be enhanced via plugins. openmediavault is primarily designed to be used in home environments or small home offices.

awesome-docker - :whale: A curated list of Docker resources and projects

frp - A fast reverse proxy to help you expose a local server behind a NAT or firewall to the internet.

Jellyfin - The Free Software Media System

Nextcloud - ☁️ Nextcloud server, a safe home for all your data

Sandstorm - Sandstorm is a self-hostable web productivity suite. It's implemented as a security-hardened web app package manager.

Portainer - Making Docker and Kubernetes management easy.

SirTunnel - Minimal, self-hosted, 0-config alternative to ngrok. Caddy+OpenSSH+50 lines of Python.

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