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I have been working on Octelium for quite a few years now but it was open sourced only by late May 2025. Octelium, as described more in detail in the repo's README, is simply an open source, self-hosted, unified platform for zero trust resource access that is primarily meant to be a modern alternative to corporate VPNs and remote access tools. It can operate as a remote access/corporate VPN (i.e. alternative to Twingate, Tailscale, OpenVPN Access Server, etc...), a ZTNA/BeyondCorp platform (i.e. alterntive to Cloudflare Access, Teleport, Google BeyondCorp, etc...), and it can also operate as an API/AI gateway, an infrastructure for MCP and A2A architectures and meshes, an ngrok alternative, a homelab infrastructure or even as a more advanced Kubernetes ingress. It's basically designed to operate like a unified Kubernetes-like scalable architecture for zero trust secure/remote access that's suitable for different human-to-workload and workload-to-workload environments. You can read more in detail the full set of main features and links about how it works in the repo's README or directly in the docs https://octelium.com/docs
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wkat4242 ◴[] No.44415156[source]
There are so so many of these already...

- Tinc (the OG of P2P VPN)

- Hamachi (not open though)

- ZeroTier

- Nebula (from Slack)

- Tailscale

- Netbird

I wonder why people keep building more. I know each has its own quirks and things they're better at, but the difference is really quite minimal.

One of the things I really would like is zero-trust 'lighthouses'. With current Zerotier and Tailscale, you really have to trust them because they can add nodes on your account whenever they want. I don't want that, I want fully self-hosted and for the lighthouses to just coordinate but not to be part of the network. I have to do some research to see what would be best.

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