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  • headscale

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

  • Tailscale without a central server is raw Wireguard, basically. You can do that but then you lose Tailscale's automatic NAT traversal and packet relay fallbacks for when UDP is blocked or NAT traversal fails.

    Or you can self-host Tailscale with https://github.com/juanfont/headscale if you want.

  • zerotier-systemd-manager

    Manages systemd per-interface DNS resolution for zeronsd

  • 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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  • Nebula

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

  • As other have suggested, Nebula (https://github.com/slackhq/nebula) is pretty elegant. It has groups-based access built in which is extremely convenient.

    You can bolt-on SSO fairly easily - just create a certificate signing service. I created https://github.com/unreality/nebula-mesh-admin in a weekend, so its fairly easy to add a SSO flow in.

  • nebula-mesh-admin

  • As other have suggested, Nebula (https://github.com/slackhq/nebula) is pretty elegant. It has groups-based access built in which is extremely convenient.

    You can bolt-on SSO fairly easily - just create a certificate signing service. I created https://github.com/unreality/nebula-mesh-admin in a weekend, so its fairly easy to add a SSO flow in.

  • go

    Tailscale's rolling temporary fork of Go with emphasis on performance and memory/binary size reduction. We try to upstream everything and keep this repo's diff small. (by tailscale)

  • All the hoop-jumping I can think of is open-source. https://github.com/tailscale/go has the Go toolchain changes for size reduction (though most get upstreamed), and the rest of the size reduction stuff comes from lazy configuration, i.e. keeping as little idle state as possible. But that's useful for memory reduction on all platforms, so it's just in the general network engine at https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale .

  • tailscale

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

  • All the hoop-jumping I can think of is open-source. https://github.com/tailscale/go has the Go toolchain changes for size reduction (though most get upstreamed), and the rest of the size reduction stuff comes from lazy configuration, i.e. keeping as little idle state as possible. But that's useful for memory reduction on all platforms, so it's just in the general network engine at https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale .

  • tinc

    a VPN daemon

  • InfluxDB

    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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