Nebula is incredibly interesting. For advanced personal use, the mesh VPN can simplify and improve connectivity between networks. I tried it out between my home network, some VPS's (Google, Linode), my work desktop, and my laptop. Neat stuff. Once it finally supports mobile devices (Android, iOS), I can use it to replace my traditional IKEv2/IPsec setup.
For enterprise use, I can see how it would be useful connecting disparate datacenters/regions/cloud providers together. However, in a traditional enterprise environment (hub+spoke, centralized services) like mine, it is unnecessary and lacks hardware appliances (for now). I have no plans to consider it for my enterprise. My branches have no interest in connecting to each other, and their hardware firewall/VPN/router appliances are easier to manage than running custom servers in each location. On Tue, Dec 31, 2019 at 9:35 AM Michael Torrie <torr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Have any of you looked into the recently released Nebula[1] project from > Slack? It's very intriguing[2][3]. I've long wanted something like > this, even on a small scale for my home networking and family needs. It > combines peer to peer VPN technologies with a robust security access > model. It's like a combination of firewall and vpn. Apparently it > scales well to thousands of nodes. I plan to mess with sometime in the > next year. Just wondered if anyone has thoughts on it, or plans to try > to use it in an enterprise setting. > > I could envision every household in my immediate family being tied in > for purposes of tech support and sharing of files. And using the > security policy for privacy purposes. For example, there's no reason > for my sister across the continent to print to my printer, and probably > file sharing would be restricted to some shared NAS boxes. Interesting > possibilities. > > [1] https://github.com/slackhq/nebula > [2] > > https://slack.engineering/introducing-nebula-the-open-source-global-overlay-network-from-slack-884110a5579 > [3] > > https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/12/nebula-vpn-routes-between-hosts-privately-flexibly-and-efficiently/ > > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
