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by blop 852 days ago
Nebula is great! From what I found after testing other solutions (headscale, netbird, netmaker) It's also the only completely open source mesh vpn that can be configured with a highly available control plane (just run multiple lighthouses, nothing is shared) and also supports multiple root CAs for nodes, relays and control planes (and each node can be a relay too)

I just wish there was a kubernetes operator to easily set up mesh sidecars like with tailscale and it would be perfect!
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mintplant 852 days ago
FYI, the Nebula mobile client is source-available but not open-source. The devs from Defined Networking have been cagey about this and don't make this fact obvious, which makes me wary of Nebula.

https://github.com/DefinedNet/mobile_nebula/issues/19

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blop 852 days ago
Fair enough about the android mobile client... My use case only involves meshing linux appliances across various networks so we only need the nebula core binaries which are under MIT license

https://github.com/slackhq/nebula/blob/master/LICENSE

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pests 852 days ago
TLDR: They haven't explicitly added a license, on purpose.

https://choosealicense.com/no-permission/

Sad optimism of the commentor to get a PR going if that was all it needed.

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jsiepkes 851 days ago
They could have just added a LICENSE file which stated you are not allowed to use to software without a commercial license. Instead they chose to be vague about it. Doesn't really inspire confidence.
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