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Show HN: Pangolin – Open source alternative to Cloudflare Tunnels

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Re: Show HN: Pangolin – Open source alternative to Cloudflare Tunnels

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Post by oulipo »

oschwartz10612 wrote: post #2

Hello Eveyone, this is the other maintainer here. Just wanted to add some more detail about the other components of this system: Pangolin uses Traefik under the hood to do the actual HTTP proxying. A plugin, Badger, provides a way to authenticate every request with Pangolin. A second service, Gerbil, provides a WireGuard management server that Pangolin can use to create peers for connectivity. And finally, there is N…

Would be nice if there were a mini-tutorial in the doc for each of the use-cases you mention here, so we could quickly test it and see if it helps

Re: Show HN: Pangolin – Open source alternative to Cloudflare Tunnels

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Post by raphinou »

Did you get outside contributions yet? I'm asking because it is dual licensed agpl and commercial (just like a recent project I'm working on), and am wondering how contributors react to the cla.

Btw I like your short and clear CLA! Did you check the wording of the cla with a lawyer? In my project I wanted to replace the perpetual license granted by contributors by 'a license granted as long as the software is also proposed under the agpl', but that might make it too complicated to still keep it succinct and legally clear.

Re: Show HN: Pangolin – Open source alternative to Cloudflare Tunnels

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Post by TheTxT »

djlameche wrote: post #29

Sorry if this is a noobish question, but would this allow me to access services on a VPS, that I do not want publicly accessible on the internet? In other words: Let's say I have a VPS with eg. Keycloak running on it. I want to be able to access it for management purposes but don't want it exposed to other people on the internet. Would Pangolin be a way for me to do this?

Did you already consider using ssh port forwarding? That way you can temporarily forward the local port that keycloak is running on to your machine

Re: Show HN: Pangolin – Open source alternative to Cloudflare Tunnels

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Post by 44za12 »

This is super exciting! The “Cloudflare Tunnel” lock-in has always bugged me, so seeing an open source option is genuinely refreshing. I’m especially curious how Pangolin handles the gritty stuff—flaky networks, authentication headaches, scaling up when things get real. If anyone’s kicked the tires on this in the wild, how does it compare to the “it just works” magic of Cloudflare? Bonus points if you’ve wrangled it into playing nice with self-hosted stuff on a home connection. For context, I’ve got a Raspberry Pi running my blog and a bunch of other hobby projects from home, so real-world stories would be gold.

Re: Show HN: Pangolin – Open source alternative to Cloudflare Tunnels

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Post by zakki »

djlameche wrote: post #29

Sorry if this is a noobish question, but would this allow me to access services on a VPS, that I do not want publicly accessible on the internet? In other words: Let's say I have a VPS with eg. Keycloak running on it. I want to be able to access it for management purposes but don't want it exposed to other people on the internet. Would Pangolin be a way for me to do this?

I guess you have to use firewall as well. So basically you block any access from internet except VPN service. And you can have rule which IP allowed to access your VPN service.

Re: Show HN: Pangolin – Open source alternative to Cloudflare Tunnels

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Post by jychang »

djlameche wrote: post #29

Sorry if this is a noobish question, but would this allow me to access services on a VPS, that I do not want publicly accessible on the internet? In other words: Let's say I have a VPS with eg. Keycloak running on it. I want to be able to access it for management purposes but don't want it exposed to other people on the internet. Would Pangolin be a way for me to do this?

You want Tailscale for that.

Re: Show HN: Pangolin – Open source alternative to Cloudflare Tunnels

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Post by [deleted] »

noduerme wrote: post #5

This seems really interesting for managing a lot of remote dev boxes or something like that... so, kind of an uneducated question (from someone who isn't heavily involved in actual infrastructure)... I haven't used CF tunnels, and the extent of my proxying private services has pretty much been either reverse proxy tunnels over SSH, or Tailscale. Where pretty much any service I want to test privately is located on som…

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Re: Show HN: Pangolin – Open source alternative to Cloudflare Tunnels

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Post by djlameche »

TheTxT wrote: post #35
djlameche wrote: post #29

Sorry if this is a noobish question, but would this allow me to access services on a VPS, that I do not want publicly accessible on the internet? In other words: Let's say I have a VPS with eg. Keycloak running on it. I want to be able to access it for management purposes but don't want it exposed to other people on the internet. Would Pangolin be a way for me to do this?

Did you already consider using ssh port forwarding? That way you can temporarily forward the local port that keycloak is running on to your machine

I did not consider it yet, I will look into it. I am thinking about hosting a pepper variety databse that I am developing, but I have 0 experience with hosting software, so I am a bit wary about what I will be exposing...
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