Show HN: Octelium – FOSS Alternative to Teleport, Cloudflare, Tailscale, Ngrok

Post by metmac » Mon, Jun 30, 2025, 12:55 AM UTC

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Reading through the docs. I feel like a lot of people are missing the value here. This could be a diamond in the rough if it actually delivers on its docs. What enterprises want is to move away from perimeter based security models towards the promise that Google überProxy/BeyondCorp popularized many years ago. Which has been lost in the buzzword soup. It’s very simple. 1. A clean separation between Prod, Corp, and th…

Thank you really for your comment. I was actually hoping myself to get more questions that are related to the internals and architecture of Octelium, especially from those who are familiar with commercial ZTAs such as Cloudflare Access, Teleport, StrongDM, Google BeyondCorp, Pomerium and many other ZTNA/BeyondCorp based solutions.

Post by zxexz » Mon, Jun 30, 2025, 1:01 AM UTC

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I mean the fact headscale exists and is still in decent development, means i doubt it really is an issue, what i'd like to see is an effort for an opensource tailscale client so we could use headscale without the closed source client.

Isn't the client entirely OSS? - https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale

Post by FloatArtifact » Mon, Jun 30, 2025, 1:06 AM UTC

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TailScale is wonderful but they do need competition. I imagine an IPO is on the horizon, and as soon as they enter that phase, nasty price increases are sure to follow unless someone else is nipping hard at their heels.

I’ve been meaning to explore Netbird. Fewer features at the moment, but can be fully self hosted.

Post by subscribed » Mon, Jun 30, 2025, 2:00 AM UTC

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But that's what I'm getting at. Even if it is much more, is all of that immediately relevant to a curious/potential new user? I understand it may not be easy to narrow down the explanation, especially if you invested a lot of time and don't want to do a disservice to yourself by underselling it. Looking at the Tailscale tagline I quoted, it is small and ambiguous enough that it works marketing wise, regardless of all…

I am sorry that you find whatever I say as nothing but "jargon". I assume that those interested in Octelium are already interested in zero trust architectures as defined by NIST, simply products such as Cloudlfare Access, Teleport, StrongDM, Google BeyondCorp, Zscaler ZTNA, etc... I will do my best to simplify the README soon.

Post by geoctl » Mon, Jun 30, 2025, 2:26 AM UTC

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I am sorry that you find whatever I say as nothing but "jargon". I assume that those interested in Octelium are already interested in zero trust architectures as defined by NIST, simply products such as Cloudlfare Access, Teleport, StrongDM, Google BeyondCorp, Zscaler ZTNA, etc... I will do my best to simplify the README soon.

I am the potential target audience and I assure you it's understandable and clear. I share some (very little) from some of the criticism regarding the clarity, but I disagree you need a tagine like Tailscale while your solution does several times more things. Great product, im chewing through the docs already :)