mistborn VS Nebula

Compare mistborn vs Nebula and see what are their differences.

Nebula

A scalable overlay networking tool with a focus on performance, simplicity and security (by slackhq)
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mistborn Nebula
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mistborn

Posts with mentions or reviews of mistborn. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-16.
  • Mistborn Selfhosted
    1 project | /r/selfhosted | 8 Dec 2023
    Guys, anyone has experience with Mistborn ?
  • I want to run Nextcloud on my server running Jellyfin
    1 project | /r/NextCloud | 28 May 2023
    There is a github project that rolls a Nextcloud instance and Jellyfin together in a docker install. It also rolls a bunch more stuff as well. https://gitlab.com/cyber5k/mistborn
  • Cannot get WireGuard and Pi-hole working for the life of me
    1 project | /r/WireGuard | 27 Mar 2023
    try mistborn: https://gitlab.com/cyber5k/mistborn
  • vault warden behind vpn
    1 project | /r/selfhosted | 8 Mar 2023
    https://gitlab.com/cyber5k/mistborn has wireguard and valtwarden built-in
  • Firewall settings, any advice for my setup?
    1 project | /r/pihole | 8 Mar 2023
    So there is one other option you can run with - mistborn. Now, fair warning - if you want to run this on a pi....flash at least 100GB of storage space on a microssd and then for the OS I recommend a Ubuntu flavor of your choice. Ideally the latest one he has listed as successful on his table of distros that he successfully installed it on.
  • Ask HN: Share your new devbox setup process My own setup is included here
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Jan 2023
    I find the fundamental problem with this sort of server setup script/config management is that they inevitably get quite personal. Nobody really wants to use another devs and when you try to allow for a lot of customisation they tend get byzantine and complex.

    That said I still think it's worth sharing. If nothing else we can all usually cherry pick nice ideas from each other.

    I had an entirely private set of Ansible roles I'd cobbled together that I started to put in a more shareable state a couple of years ago. It has little overlap with what you're putting together, but I do think you might find the way it separates personal Ansible config and the main project roles into separate directories (and thus different git repos) useful.

    I really need to dust off my project and get it to a releasable state this year [momod](https://github.com/adrinux/momod).

    I assume you've come across the many similar projects like [Sovereign](https://github.com/sovereign/sovereign), [Mistborn](https://gitlab.com/cyber5k/mistborn)

  • Wireguard Multihop VPN wg0 > wg1
    1 project | /r/WireGuard | 10 Jan 2023
    https://gitlab.com/cyber5k/mistborn on my endpoint but route my traffic thru another another WG server first thus creating a multihop VPN in the interests of security
  • Folks, it's happening. The day I dreaded might be here soon.
    1 project | /r/consulting | 1 Dec 2022
    I've been using selfhosted Nextcloud with OnlyOffice for years. I've yet to encounter something it can't handle. In fact I opened up my setup at the beginning of the pandemic so others could host their own: https://gitlab.com/cyber5k/mistborn
  • minecraft server
    1 project | /r/HomeServer | 10 Nov 2022
  • What’s some self hosted applications you can’t live without?
    6 projects | /r/HomeServer | 4 Nov 2022

Nebula

Posts with mentions or reviews of Nebula. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-13.
  • JIT WireGuard
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Mar 2024
    (I am a Nebula maintainer.) We recently merged support for gVisor-based services, although it's very new, and I don't know of much experimentation that's been done with it yet: https://github.com/slackhq/nebula/pull/965
  • Ask HN: What Underrated Open Source Project Deserves More Recognition?
    63 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Mar 2024
    Nebula, originally from Slack[0].

    Wireguard rightly gets a lot of attention, but Nebula is a really simple and easy to deploy mesh network that is often overlooked.

    It does lack a management GUI and that stuff is very much DIY.

    [0] https://github.com/slackhq/nebula

  • Nebula is Not the Fastest Mesh VPN (But neither are any of the others)
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Feb 2024
    Fair enough about the android mobile client... My use case only involves meshing linux appliances across various networks so we only need the nebula core binaries which are under MIT license

    https://github.com/slackhq/nebula/blob/master/LICENSE

  • Nebula is an open-source and free-to-use modern C++ game engine
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Jan 2024
    That's not at all confusing with Slack's Nebula. https://github.com/slackhq/nebula
  • A word of caution about Tailscale
    12 projects | /r/selfhosted | 9 Dec 2023
    Sounds like a bunch of your pain points are just related to needing an online CA or ICA. But, looking through the Nebula docs I don't know that it supports things like CRL addresses where you could host the CRL, or OCSP responders. Someone got support for an OCSP responder but never submitted a PR with completed code: https://github.com/slackhq/nebula/issues/72
  • Free Tech Tools and Resources - Multi-clock Display, Networking Tools, Digital Forensics & More
    2 projects | /r/SysAdminBlogs | 17 Nov 2023
    Nebula is a scalable, cross-platform overlay networking tool focused on performance, simplicity, and security. This portable tool is equally adapted for linking a small number of computers or scaling to connect tens of thousands. It integrates encryption, security groups, certificates, and tunneling into a powerful, cohesive connectivity solution. Thanks for the recommendation go to jmeador42.
  • Would we still create Nebula today?
    14 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Oct 2023
    Replying to my own comment as I can no longer edit it:

    The folks over at Slack had an interesting discussion regarding the the "battle of the VPNs" article published by Netmaker I sourced in my parent comment:

    https://github.com/slackhq/nebula/discussions/911

  • Tailscale vs. Narrowlink
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Aug 2023
    Interesting. I thought recognized the logo, apparently seems to be a commercial support offering of https://github.com/slackhq/nebula and they support the "nebula" iOS app. I had been using for nebula/defined in the past.
  • Which overlay network?
    6 projects | /r/selfhosted | 13 Jul 2023
    Nebula: Is super easy to get running. It uses an interesting angle, working on the service and not just the device level. Unfortunately their NAT support seems to be still quite problematic and I am not going to maintain all those forwarded ports manually. There is a PR to support PCP but even if that ever gets applied I am not sure how well that will play with older routers. While it should be battle proven at slack, the community seems to be not that active. It still has the in-house tool that just got released.
  • Most efficient way to reliably get a message to every server in a network?
    2 projects | /r/AskProgramming | 6 Jul 2023
    The catch is that I want this to be reliable and fault tolerant, so if some of the game servers in the network go down, the remaining online servers should still always be able to receive broadcasts from any other online server. The servers can also be in multiple geographic locations and I am planning on using a mesh overlay network like Nebula to connect them. Essentially each pair of online servers will likely have a secure link between them that goes directly through the underlying network.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing mistborn and Nebula you can also consider the following projects:

tailscale - The easiest, most secure way to use WireGuard and 2FA.

ZeroTier - A Smart Ethernet Switch for Earth

wirehole - WireHole is a combination of WireGuard, Pi-hole, and Unbound in a docker-compose project with the intent of enabling users to quickly and easily create a personally managed full or split-tunnel WireGuard VPN with ad blocking capabilities thanks to Pi-hole, and DNS caching, additional privacy options, and upstream providers via Unbound.

Netmaker - Netmaker makes networks with WireGuard. Netmaker automates fast, secure, and distributed virtual networks.

porn-vault - 💋 Manage your ever-growing porn collection. Using Vue & GraphQL

selfhosted-apps-docker - Guide by Example

tinc - a VPN daemon

rustdesk - An open-source remote desktop, and alternative to TeamViewer.

headscale - An open source, self-hosted implementation of the Tailscale control server

Open and cheap DIY IP-KVM based on Raspberry Pi - Open and inexpensive DIY IP-KVM based on Raspberry Pi

yggdrasil-go - An experiment in scalable routing as an encrypted IPv6 overlay network