Any experience with Pangolin?

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Submitted ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨robber@lemmy.ml⁩ to ⁨selfhosted@lemmy.world⁩

Hi fellow homelabbers! I hope your day / night is going great.

Just stubled across this self-hosted cloudflare tunnel alternernative called Pangolin.

Does anyone use it for exposing their homelab? It looks awesome, but I’ve never heard of it before.
Should I be reluctant since it’s developed by a US-based company? I mean security-wise. (I’ll remove this question if it’s too political.)
Does anyone know of alternatives pieces or stacks or software that achieve the same without relying on cloudflare?

Your insights are highly appreciated!

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aksdb@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Pangolin is the most user friendly self hosted alternative to Cloudflare tunnels. There are dozens alternatives, but none with that feature set and such a UI.

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- robber@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Thanks for the list! Do you use Pangolin yourself?
  
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  - aksdb@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    No, since at the moment it wants to manage certificates, but I don’t intend to run pangolin as my main reverse proxy.
    
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Bort@hilariouschaos.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I just switched from cloudflare to pangolin on a racknerd vps. I’m really liking it so far. Very easy to configure. I’ve got three different domains, and a ton of subdomains pointing to different services running on two servers on my lan. I’m loving the authentication, crowdsec, and geoblock features. The community guide for the metrics broke my system (and I didn’t backup any of the yaml files) but I was able to wipe everything and get it up again in about 30 minutes. I have my jellyfin bypassing the authentication for a few specific IPs so that my relatives can stream to their firesticks. I highly recommend it.

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mmhmm@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Pangolin is my next homelab project. I can’t wait to give it a go. If anyone has any advise or guides it’d be appreciated

I don’t know of alternatives

Pangolin, while u.s. based does not appear to serve the state of its interests

I am not aware of a direct peer, but tailscale, a bastion hosting a direct VPN or remote reverse proxy to your homelab are all similar. Pangolin seemingly combines the best and more of these scenarios

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- mosiacmango@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Lawerence systems has a recent video that is pretty indepth.
  
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dfense@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Using it for several weeks now. Very happy with it, especially now that it is integrated with OAuth, so SSO for getting through Pangolin itself and then on all the services it routes to.

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- robber@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  That sounds awesome! No issues at all so far?
  
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  - dfense@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    None so far. And I am using pretty much all the features.
    
    It is also great for my current migration from docker compose to kubernetes.
    
    A newt client on both and I can just switch on the pangolin side.
    
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TheOneCurly@feddit.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I moved my entire public facing set of services over to Pangolin a little over a month ago. It's been pretty sweet. I really like the auth system and they just integrated custom oidc providers so I've got pocketID set up with it as well.

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- robber@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Thanks for the hint to pocketID, haven’t heard of it before. That makes me think it’s time to upgrade my auth stack as well.
  
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  - TheOneCurly@feddit.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I tried and bounced off of several of the other popular auth providers over the years. PocketID was the first one I found reasonable to set up and configure.
    
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nick@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Using pangolin to serve a bunch of services from my homelab. It’s great.

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