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Show HN: Pangolin – Open source alternative to Cloudflare Tunnels

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478 points miloschwartz | 3 comments | 10 Jul 25 21:50 UTC | HN request time: 0.66s | source

Pangolin is an open source self-hosted tunneled reverse proxy management server with identity and access control, designed to securely expose private resources through encrypted WireGuard tunnels running in user space.

We made Pangolin so you retain full control over your infrastructure while providing a user-friendly and feature-rich solution for managing proxies, authentication, and access, all with a clean and simple dashboard web UI.

GitHub: https://github.com/fosrl/pangolin

Deployment takes about 5 minutes on a VPS: https://docs.fossorial.io/Getting%20Started/quick-install

Demo by Lawrence Systems (YouTube): https://youtu.be/g5qOpxhhS7M?si=M1XTWLGLUZW0WzTv&t=723

Some use cases:

  - Grant users access to your apps from anywhere using just a web-browser

  - Proxy behind CGNAT

  - One application load balancer across multiple clouds and on-premises

  - Easily expose services on IoT and edge devices for field monitoring

  - Bring localhost online for easy access
A few key features:

  - No port forwarding and hide your public IP for self-hosting

  - Create proxies to multiple different private networks

  - OAuth2/OIDC identity providers

  - Role-based access control

  - Raw TCP and UDP support

  - Resource-specific pin codes, passwords, email OTP

  - Self-destructing shareable links

  - API for automation

  - WAF with CrowdSec and Geoblocking
1. oulipo ◴[11 Jul 25 07:40 UTC] No.44529358[source]▶
Would Pangolin "integrate naturally" with something like Dokploy? Or is more meant to "replace" it?

Could you make a Dokploy template to let people deploy it easily?

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2. fossorialowen ◴[11 Jul 25 17:12 UTC] No.44534670[source]▶
From the little I understand about it I think you may be able to deploy Pangolin on it. Would need to do some research. But you could also use Pangolin to provide access to a self hosted Dokploy application I think.
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3. oulipo ◴[12 Jul 25 13:30 UTC] No.44541927[source]▶
Nice, because Dokploy also uses Traefik to give a reverse proxy access to the services deployed there. Ideally I'd keep it that way, and also use Pangolin in order to add a login for services which don't "natively" have one, in order to protect access, how would I go about doing that?