Ask HN: Who is using Nebula (mesh VPN)?
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by cdsl
1 day ago
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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?

Tomte
19 hours ago
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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.

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ValtteriL
19 hours ago
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Never seen it deployed anywhere.

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

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cdsl
9 hours ago
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Yeah, that's my point. It seems to be used mostly on homelabs. No big companies endorsing it.
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aborsy
1 day ago
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Tailscale has tailnet lock. Do you still need to trust the coordination server?
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cdsl
8 hours ago
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More than on a Nebula setup..
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