flipt VS tailscale

We at https://flipt.io are putting on a buy vs build webinar in a couple of weeks to discuss this very thing as it's a common question that engineering teams seem to have.

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We're currently evaluating OPA for adding RBAC to our open-source application [0]. We plan on using the Go API [1] and doing the policy eval directly in our app since our app is also written in Go.

The thinking is we'll have some basic built-in policies (like admins can do X, editors can do Y, etc) but also allow users to configure their own policies if they want by writing rego and loading their policy rules at startup time (via config). We'd document the inputs that we pass to the evaluation call such as request headers, IP, role, etc.

I'm curious if anyone has ever tried something like this or similar?

[0] https://github.com/flipt-io/flipt

[1] https://www.openpolicyagent.org/docs/latest/integration/#int...

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Tailscale - Built on WireGuard. Easy to use. Control server is closed source. Client code available with a BSD3 license + separate patents file.

Tailscale

I'm using the GitHub version of tailscaled on one of my Macs as a background daemon launched at boot. To upgrade to the latest version, try the following:

Tailscale is a VPN service that makes the devices and applications you own accessible anywhere in the world, securely and effortlessly. It enables encrypted point-to-point connections using the open source WireGuard® protocol, which means only devices on your private network can communicate with each other.

Might be possible to do using a VPN as long as you can get broadcast/multicast packets forwarded.

Tailscale unfortunately doesn't support it...yet?

https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/issues/1013

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Tailscale is another way of doing it. I'm using it to access my Pi's Samba shares from my phone but it works from Windows as well.