JIT WireGuard

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  • awesome-wireguard

    A curated list of WireGuard tools, projects, and resources.

  • Roughly, yes. Netmaker has a self-hostable server though. With tailscsle of course the 3rd-party headscale is available. Netbird also seems promising. See https://github.com/cedrickchee/awesome-wireguard for more alternatives.

  • noisysockets

    Userspace TCP/IP Sockets For WireGuard.

  • Might as well take the opportunity to shill one of my recent experimental projects, If you are interested in building Go apps that act as userspace WireGuard peers take a look at https://github.com/dpeckett/noisysockets

    Based off the excellent work in done by wireguard-go but I've attempted to simplify and make things a lot more idiomatic for library use.

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    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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  • netbird

    Connect your devices into a single secure private WireGuard®-based mesh network with SSO/MFA and simple access controls.

  • Nebula

    A scalable overlay networking tool with a focus on performance, simplicity and security

  • (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

  • awesome-tunneling

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

  • 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?

  • obligator

    Simple and opinionated OpenID Connect server designed for self-hosters

  • The deployment experience is awesome, but for me[0] the killer feature of Fly.io is their Anycast network and features such as FLY_REPLAY and LiteFS that make clusering a breeze[1].

    [0]: using them for https://lastlogin.io

    [1]: Here's all the fly-specific code necessary to run LastLogin in a globally distributed way: https://github.com/lastlogin-io/obligator/blob/37f75cc861f1b...

  • rtun

    Utilities for reverse SSH tunnels

  • I have issues trusting SSHFS. It's never been stable enough for me. Maybe it's because I have to go through at least one ssh proxy, in addition to a VPN. Maybe it's that the remote filesystem is slow enough, so trying to do anything remotely is very slow.

    But really, it think it's that I'm already in a terminal connected to a remote system. I don't want to have to go to a different terminal to try and transfer data that I'm already looking at. And trying to use a Finder window (or explorer) to navigate a complex remote filesystem hierarchy isn't fun.

    Occasionally I can do my work locally, but usually the data is large enough that I have to do my work on a remote server/cluster. When I generate figures describing my data, I want to see those locally. This particular use-case could be solved by using something like Xpdf, but it's easier to send the figure back to my local machine and view it with Preview.app.

    I also sometimes do need to send datafiles back to my local computer. In these cases, I could use sshfs (but don't like the duelling terminals) or scp (but my file paths can be long and complicated, so typing out paths is a pain). I used to actually just handle this with Dropbox. I'd have a program that would send files to a specific Dropbox folder and that would then sync to my local computer. That worked well, but the delay between syncing was an issue.

    Here's the code/project I wrote to manage this: https://github.com/mbreese/rtun

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  • aws-sso-cli

    A powerful tool for using AWS Identity Center for the CLI and web console.

  • aws-ssm-ec2-proxy-command

    AWS SSM EC2 SSH Proxy Command

  • wg-jit

    JIT for WireGuard. Open Source and MIT Licensed. Based on the explanation by Fly.io on their website.

  • I thought this was brilliant and made a little POC here as I couldn't find the code anywhere: https://github.com/realrasengan/wg-jit

    This doesn't implement the completion (replay or reverse initiate) which I think both are also novel approaches to this.

    So exciting!

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