Nebula VS garage

Compare Nebula vs garage 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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garage

(Mirror) S3-compatible object store for small self-hosted geo-distributed deployments. Main repo: https://git.deuxfleurs.fr/Deuxfleurs/garage (by deuxfleurs-org)
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Nebula garage
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MIT License GNU Affero General Public License v3.0
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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.

garage

Posts with mentions or reviews of garage. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-02.
  • SeaweedFS fast distributed storage system for blobs, objects, files and datalake
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Feb 2024
    Take a look at GarageS3, it's a niceoption for "just an S3 server" for self hosting.

    https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/

    I use it for self hosting.

  • A case for moving away from the cloud and embracing local storage solutions
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Dec 2023
    Garage (https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/) gets pretty close for object storage. It’s built with mixing high/low latency links and replication between multiple hosts. Unfortunately it’s not really built for end-users, but devs, so there’s no ui or anything like that.
  • Show HN: OpenSign – The open source alternative to DocuSign
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Oct 2023
    > Theoretically they could swap with minio but last time we used it it was not a drop-in replacement yet.

    Depends on whether AGPL v3 works for you or not (or whether you decide to pay them), I guess: https://min.io/pricing

    I've actually been looking for more open alternatives, but haven't found much.

    Zenko CloudServer seemed to be somewhat promising, but doesn't seem to be managed very actively: https://github.com/scality/cloudserver/issues/4986 (their Docker images on DockerHub were last updated 10 months ago, which is what the homepage links to; blog doesn't seem active since 2019, forums don't have much going on, despite some action on GitHub still)

    There was also Garage, but that one is also AGPL v3: https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/

    The closest I got was discovering that SeaweedFS has an S3 compatible mode: https://github.com/seaweedfs/seaweedfs

  • Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud (2019)
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Oct 2023
    Ah, you should check out Garage (https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/) for a self-hosted, cluster-y API of S3
  • Object storage - "we are finally building it"
    1 project | /r/hetzner | 22 Jun 2023
  • Canva saves millions annually in Amazon S3 costs
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Jun 2023
    I'm a big fan of Garage[1], which is a dead-simple S3 drop-in that you can host on your own drives. It's designed for consumer hardware with shitty internet in-between nodes.

    [1]:https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/

  • Quickwit 0.6.0 - Search and analytics on billions of logs with minimal hardware
    4 projects | /r/selfhosted | 9 Jun 2023
    One more thing we are also proud of: a bunch of our users is using the object storage Garage, this OSS project looks really promising, and we really cherish the OSS for this kind of unexpected combination.
  • Show HN: Quickwit – Cost-efficient Elasticsearch alternative on object storage
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Jun 2023
    - Another nice comment seen on HN « it seems to be very easy to run, not very IO intensive, and running fine on a single node with modest hardware with >2 billion log rows. It has a really cool dynamic schema feature too.» [9]

    Fun fact: at least 4 users are using Garage[10] as the object storage, this OSS project looks really promising and made the HN front page a few months ago[11], we really cherish the OSS for this kind of unexpected combination.

    Any feedback positive/negative always greatly appreciated here!

    [0] Quickwit repo: https://github.com/quickwit-oss/quickwit

    [1] Searching the web under 1000$/month: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27074481

    [2] Chitchat gossip library: https://github.com/quickwit-oss/chitchat

    [3] Columnar format: https://github.com/quickwit-oss/tantivy/tree/main/columnar

    [4] Tantivy library: https://github.com/quickwit-oss/tantivy/

    [5] Whichlang library: https://github.com/quickwit-oss/whichlang

    [6] GitHub Archive demo in terminal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNq3bARRlDI

    [7] Indexing performance: https://twitter.com/fulmicoton/status/1638016949459488768

    [8] https://twitter.com/arnonrgo/status/1645429632303235073?s=20

    [9] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35742544

    [10] Garage object storage: https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/

    [11] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33853539

  • The NixOS Foundation’s Call to Action: S3 Costs Require Community Support
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Jun 2023
    On the technical side, garage (https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/) does multi master replication by default, so is probably better for this use case. Still with S3 API.
  • Looking for a solution to merge storage accross WAN
    1 project | /r/homelab | 28 May 2023
    You are looking for garage.

What are some alternatives?

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

ZeroTier - A Smart Ethernet Switch for Earth

seaweedfs - SeaweedFS is a fast distributed storage system for blobs, objects, files, and data lake, for billions of files! Blob store has O(1) disk seek, cloud tiering. Filer supports Cloud Drive, cross-DC active-active replication, Kubernetes, POSIX FUSE mount, S3 API, S3 Gateway, Hadoop, WebDAV, encryption, Erasure Coding.

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

ceph-containers - OCI compliant Ceph Container Images based on Ubuntu LTS

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

Zenko - Zenko is the open source multi-cloud data controller: own and keep control of your data on any cloud.

tinc - a VPN daemon

s3ql - a full featured file system for online data storage

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

Seaweed File System - SeaweedFS is a fast distributed storage system for blobs, objects, files, and data lake, for billions of files! Blob store has O(1) disk seek, cloud tiering. Filer supports Cloud Drive, cross-DC active-active replication, Kubernetes, POSIX FUSE mount, S3 API, S3 Gateway, Hadoop, WebDAV, encryption, Erasure Coding. [Moved to: https://github.com/seaweedfs/seaweedfs]

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

MooseFS - MooseFS – Open Source, Petabyte, Fault-Tolerant, Highly Performing, Scalable Network Distributed File System (Software-Defined Storage)