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Ask HN: Who is using Nebula (mesh VPN)?

5•cdsl•1d ago
I've been doing some research these days about the state of the art for mesh VPN's / network overlays. I'm looking for secure options for a small company and even to update my home server.

Nebula, from the Slack team, looks like a really solid solution. All nodes having their own certificate, it doesn't even require to trust the coordination server. I love it!

But I'm surprised I can't find any big company claiming to use it (other than Slack themselves). I can only find 'Home-labbers' and smaller businesses, but no big guys looking into it. At least not publicly. Has anyone seen it deployed in a bigger corporation?

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aborsy•1d ago
Tailscale has tailnet lock. Do you still need to trust the coordination server?
cdsl•19h ago
More than on a Nebula setup..
ValtteriL•1d ago
Never seen it deployed anywhere.

I'm planning to replace the traditional network architecture in my homelab with it to practice Zero Trust.

cdsl•20h ago
Yeah, that's my point. It seems to be used mostly on homelabs. No big companies endorsing it.
Tomte•1d ago
Back when I used it the mobile app on iOS was broken, but they fixed it real quick. That was encouraging.

Other than that, I mostly stopped using it because it forces you to regularly rotate all certificates, and for my personal purposes it was too much of a hassle.

I still like the project a lot and wish it would be more prominent. Nowadays everyone immediately seems to recommend Tailscale.

mindcrash•20m ago
If you are looking for a container interconnect you could also take a look at Skupper (https://skupper.io/):

"Skupper is an over-the-top, multi-platform application interconnect. Skupper makes it easy to deploy private application networks that span multiples sites and platforms.

* Over-the-top - Skupper operates at the application layer, on top of existing IP networks. Services connect across network boundaries without VPNs or special firewall rules.

* Multi-platform - Skupper works on Kubernetes, Docker, Podman, and Linux. It scales up to multi-tenant clusters and down to edge devices.

* Application-centric - Skupper creates isolated application-focused networks with logical service addresses that enable application portability.

* Secure - Skupper uses mutual TLS authentication and encryption to protect all communication. Application services are never exposed on the public internet."

It's in use at several big orgs in production. For example, I know with 99.9% certainty it is still being used by the Dutch Railways to connect Kubernetes clusters running on Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure and AWS together.

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