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  • tunnel-wireguard-udp2tcp

    Tunnel WireGuard UDP traffic over TCP using socat

  • Shameless plug [1], socat combined with WireGuard

    [1] https://github.com/lrvl/tunnel-wireguard-udp2tcp

  • wsl-ssh-agent

    Helper to interface with Windows ssh-agent.exe service from Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)

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    Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management

  • Socat is the default implementation for Kubernetes port-forwarding [1] when using dockershim for the kubelet runtime. Similar to how tar is used as the default Kubernetes cp command implementation.

    [1] https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/770d3f181c5d7e...

  • winssh-pageant

    Bridge to Windows OpenSSH agent from Pageant. This means the openssh agent has the keys and this proxies pageant requests to it.

  • Just to throw another one of these bridge applications into the mix, here is one that allows Pageant apps to communicate with Windows' native ssh-agent.

    https://github.com/ndbeals/winssh-pageant

    I use both this and rupor's wsl-ssh-agent from the other thread extensively.

  • wsl-ssh-pageant

    A Pageant -> TCP bridge for use with WSL, allowing for Pageant to be used as an ssh-ageant within the WSL environment.

  • In the past I also used https://github.com/benpye/wsl-ssh-pageant to go from WSL to Pageant (which I believe KeeAgent is also compatible with)

  • https://gitlab.com/inivekin/socatplayer/-/releases

    So if you're commonly doing a socat process like:

  • rlwrap

    A readline wrapper

  • > if you have to interact with something that has no readline

    See also https://github.com/hanslub42/rlwrap

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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