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Show HN: XPipe, a shell connection hub for SSH, Docker, K8s, VMs, and more

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Re: Show HN: XPipe, a shell connection hub for SSH, Docker, K8s, VMs, and more

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Post by crschnick »

hobofan wrote: post #17

Tried it out and it's amazing! I'm a freelancer working with different clients with a mix of the technologies you listed (Docker/Kubernetes) and I'm using Tailscale for mostly personal use-cases, so this hits all the right spots. Up until now I proxied most of my stuff on a macOS client via "SSH Tunnel Manager", which has quite a clunky UI, and whenever I have to reconfigure something there the current feedback of th…

Great that it works for you. I also struggled a lot with setting up various different types of tunnels initially, especially more complex ones. That was one of the motivations why I started developing it.

Re: Show HN: XPipe, a shell connection hub for SSH, Docker, K8s, VMs, and more

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Post by crschnick »

f2hex wrote: post #19
crschnick wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you elaborate on that? Then I can better respond to your specific points on why it shouldn't be used

Well, it would necessitate a dedicated conversation. In my opinion, there are better languages and runtimes available today to create such solutions, such as Go and Rust, to name a couple of the most suitable ones. I believe Java is no longer an appealing choice for these types of tools, but I still like the project and its development process.

So far I'm happy with the choice. The ecosystem is mature, the build tools (maven/gradle) are solid to build this more complicated project, JavaFX works well enough to realize cross-platform applications, and the performance with modern JIT compilation from GraalVM is good. Currently I'm not missing something important from the tech stack.

Next week, when JDK 24 is released for the general availability, I plan to immediately switch to that as there will be additional performance gains with Project Leyden's AOT compilation and Project Liliput's memory improvements. So I'm positive for the future.

Re: Show HN: XPipe, a shell connection hub for SSH, Docker, K8s, VMs, and more

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Post by trurl42 »

f2hex wrote: post #19
crschnick wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you elaborate on that? Then I can better respond to your specific points on why it shouldn't be used

Well, it would necessitate a dedicated conversation. In my opinion, there are better languages and runtimes available today to create such solutions, such as Go and Rust, to name a couple of the most suitable ones. I believe Java is no longer an appealing choice for these types of tools, but I still like the project and its development process.

Go and Rust are more suited than Java for building graphical user interfaces that run cross-platform? That would be news to me.

Sure it can be done, but it's not exactly like there are well-established solutions for this.

Re: Show HN: XPipe, a shell connection hub for SSH, Docker, K8s, VMs, and more

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Post by KomoD »

crschnick wrote: post #7
bb88 wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The issue is do I own the software or rely upon SaaS infra I can't control? I'm not really interested in the latter.

You will own a lifetime license for the software if you choose the lifetime plan. Everyone has seen it in practice that some companies try to pull a bait and switch by then changing the terms of licenses or simply shutting down the servers when going out of business. Since this is a desktop tool not hosted on any server infrastructure, at least the latter part isn't that much of a risk. You still have to have some tr…

The feature matrix says you can't get an offline license with "Homelab" though.

Re: Show HN: XPipe, a shell connection hub for SSH, Docker, K8s, VMs, and more

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Post by crschnick »

KomoD wrote: post #25
crschnick wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You will own a lifetime license for the software if you choose the lifetime plan. Everyone has seen it in practice that some companies try to pull a bait and switch by then changing the terms of licenses or simply shutting down the servers when going out of business. Since this is a desktop tool not hosted on any server infrastructure, at least the latter part isn't that much of a risk. You still have to have some tr…

The feature matrix says you can't get an offline license with "Homelab" though.

Alright, fair point. I will change that on the website, you can still write me an email to request that

Re: Show HN: XPipe, a shell connection hub for SSH, Docker, K8s, VMs, and more

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Post by wkat4242 »

Hmm looks interesting but all my servers require openpgp (yubikey with gpg agent support) so I'd have to use the homelab tier. And I'm very adverse to subscriptions.

And I don't think it's available for my os, otherwise I'd try it. But it's ok, I have my own setups for this stuff.

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