wireguard-tools VS HomeBrew

Oh, this is cool. I'm a huge proponent of CLI tools supporting sensible JSON output, and things like https://github.com/WireGuard/wireguard-tools/blob/master/con... and PowerShell's |ConvertTo-Json are a huge part of my management/monitoring automation efforts.

But, unfortunately, sensible is doing some heavy lifting here and reality is... well, reality. While the output of things like the LSI/Broadcom StorCLI 'suffix the command with J' approach and some of PowerShell's COM-hiding wrappers (which are depressingly common) is technically JSON, the end result is so mindbogglingly complex-slash-useless, that you're quickly forced to revert to 'OK, just run some regexes on the plain-text output' kludges anyway.

Having said that, I'll definitely check this out. If the first example given, parsing dig output, is indeed representative of what this can reliably do, it should be interesting...

> Possible? Maybe. Easy? No. Especially the “testable” part.

a testable shell script? Never seen one.

Thinking about scirpts I've read in the past, I remember seeing Jason Donenfeld's bash script for wireguard-wg and thinking how productive and readable it was,

https://github.com/WireGuard/wireguard-tools/blob/master/src...

I see this when my equipment roams back into my private network and the wireguard server is inside that LAN. It can be solved by NAT'ing packets arriving on your edge router's inside interface, destinated to your outside IP, back to the inside wireguard server IP.

Alternatively if your client is Linux, there is:

https://github.com/WireGuard/wireguard-tools/tree/master/con...

you have a copy here that you can edit: https://github.com/WireGuard/wireguard-tools/blob/master/contrib/reresolve-dns/reresolve-dns.sh

You could adapt this script for it. What this one does is re-resolve the domain of the endpoint for when it's a dynamic dns. You run it on a timer from cron, and when your dynamic dns changes it will update the endpoint IP with wg set. You could adapt this script to update your AllowedIPs instead of the endpoint.

I found the GitHub Repository to wireguard-tools however, I cannot read the exact commands required to connect to a certain VPN! I've created a .conf file and was wondering how you could use that with WireGuard-tools to establish a VPN tunnel to my network?

Homebrew is a highly popular package manager on macOS and Linux systems, enabling users to easily install, update, and uninstall command-line tools and applications. Its design philosophy focuses on simplifying the software installation process on macOS, eliminating the need for manual downloads and compilations of software packages.

Homebrew - package manager for linux-based OSs.

Package Manager: Homebrew

Hopping from one distro to another with a different package manager might require some time to adapt. Using a package manager that can be installed on most distro is one way to help you get to work faster. Flatpak is one of them; other alternative are Snap, Nix or Homebrew. Flatpak is a good starter, and if you have a bunch of free time, I suggest trying Nix.

Are you using SQLite that ships with macOS, or SQLite installed from homebrew?

I had a different problem in the past with the SQLite that ships with macOS, and have been using SQLite from homebrew since.

So if it’s the one that comes with macOS that gives you this problem that you are having, try using SQLite from homebrew instead.

https://brew.sh/

Before we begin, make sure you have Homebrew installed on your Mac. Homebrew is a package manager that makes it easy to install software and dependencies. You can install Homebrew by following the instructions on their website: https://brew.sh/

I’m on MacOS and erlang.org, elixir-lang.org, and postgresql.org all suggest installation via Homebrew, which is a very popular package manager for MacOS.

I have always either installed Node from the installer provided by the Nodejs website or, via Brew in macOS. I have also used nvm in the past but did not know that there was a best practice to guide us.

A running Rails application needs a database to connect to. You may already have your database of choice installed, but if not, I recommend PostgreSQL, or Postgres for short. On a Mac, probably the easiest way to install it is with Posrgres.app. Another option, the one I prefer, is to use Homebrew. With Homebrew installed, this command will install PostgreSQL version 16 along with libpq:

On a macOS machine, you can use homebrew by running the command.