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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 spacepotato »

sepositus wrote: post #59
crschnick wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Now I don't fully know the details of your setup, but in general XPipe just works on top of your kubectl installation. So it will only work if you could manually connect to your clusters via kubectl in a terminal. But you can always just try it out and see what happens the community version because I can't say that for sure.

Yeah, I'm assuming you're just calling kubectl directly underneath the hood. The way that aws-vault works is that you do something like: `aws-vault exec kubectl ...` or you can just do `aws-vault exec` and drop into a subshell. In both cases, a set of short-lived AWS credentials are exposed via the AWS-defined environment variables to the process (or shell context). The kubeconfig is then configured to handle authent…

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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 m0d0nne11 »

crschnick wrote: post #31
wkat4242 wrote: post #29

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.

What os are you using? And about adversity to subscriptions, note that you can also obtain lifetime licenses further down the pricing page.

FYI: y'all are talking about an "aversion" and not an adversity.

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

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Post by bb88 »

crschnick wrote: post #11
bb88 wrote: post #2

I just want to purchase software these days. Not another subscription.

I fully get that. The reason why it focuses on the subscription model is that is quite difficult to plan ahead with an irregular revenue stream. Everything is financed via bootstrapping, so I can't afford to burn through money or have irregular revenue over time when planning expenses.

So typically I'm fine with something like a $50 upfront cost and then $10/year for updates (that actually get updated).

Or maybe a license with $70 with two years of updates included and then $10/year afterward.

Or what Jetbrains does and reduce the cost of the subscription over time, but let the users still use their last version after the subscription ends.

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

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Post by whistl034 »

The ARM Mac version crashes instantly upon launch with a window reporting a broken pipe error, and attempts to 'report and send diagnostics' gets the same problem.

Well, I tried to try it. I guess I'll just bookmark it and try again at a later date.

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

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Post by crschnick »

sepositus wrote: post #59
crschnick wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Now I don't fully know the details of your setup, but in general XPipe just works on top of your kubectl installation. So it will only work if you could manually connect to your clusters via kubectl in a terminal. But you can always just try it out and see what happens the community version because I can't say that for sure.

Yeah, I'm assuming you're just calling kubectl directly underneath the hood. The way that aws-vault works is that you do something like: `aws-vault exec kubectl ...` or you can just do `aws-vault exec` and drop into a subshell. In both cases, a set of short-lived AWS credentials are exposed via the AWS-defined environment variables to the process (or shell context). The kubeconfig is then configured to handle authent…

Yeah, I think something like that will be properly supported once I get around to implementing an aws integration in the future

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

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Post by crschnick »

von_lohengramm wrote: post #58

> Windows enterprise systems are only supported with at least a XPipe Professional license. You can find information about upgrading to a professional license below. Welp. If I have to choose between XPipe and LTSC, I'm afraid LTSC is gonna win. I have no interest running a version of Windows where Windows Update will randomly decide to brick my install or better yet, add even more Candy Crushes to my start menu.

Are you using the LTSC version on your desktop or also for some of your remote systems? I think if it's only for the desktop, I can fix that as that isn't really intended to be limited to the Professional version. Didn't really test it on an LTSC system so far, so I will look into that

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

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Post by crschnick »

d0100 wrote: post #62

Are the community version limitations artificial? What part of this relies on SaaS infra? Can it import my connections from WinSCP?

There's only one release build which contains all feature implementations, but some of them are locked behind the plans. So to some degree, they are artificial as there isn't currently a separate build for the Homelab and Professional builds.

The only service it relies upon is the licensing server, but if you also don't want to use that to be fully independent, you can request an offline license. You can find the details about that on the pricing page.

Right now, there's no direct import from WinSCP, next best thing where it can import from is Putty

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

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Post by crschnick »

whistl034 wrote: post #65

The ARM Mac version crashes instantly upon launch with a window reporting a broken pipe error, and attempts to 'report and send diagnostics' gets the same problem. Well, I tried to try it. I guess I'll just bookmark it and try again at a later date.

On macOS there are still a few reliability problems, mostly caused by misbehaving zsh extensions that I have to work around. I replied to your issue report, I think this should be fixable.

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

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Post by crschnick »

mrbluecoat wrote: post #60

> Automatic detection of all containers on any system without manual configuration for docker, podman, LXD, incus, k8s, Proxmox, and more Apptainer?

Interesting, haven't heard of that before. That is not supported right now, but I can look into it. It also depends how good their CLI works for me to integrate it
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