Inlets 2.0

Infrastructure

tunneling and reverse proxy

SHOW HN2019

218points
66comments
#176of 2,195 in 2019
Top 9%of 2019 by points

How HN took it

DebatedReal support and real criticism

6 positive, 8 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 8 critical, out of 22 comments about the project. Thread score -0.06.

Idea: 4 for, 6 againstDesign: 2 for, 0 againstExecution: 0 for, 2 against

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Convenient for dev work and sharing endpoints

    From 2 comments
    • Seems like it could really be convenient for dev work... I'll keep it in mind in the future!
      macawfish on HN
    • At first I said why websockets, when you are using go you could simply had done TCP sockets. But then I realize websockets is probably the right choice. This allows you a single…
      mbrumlow on HN

Objections

  • Self-hosted SSH reverse tunnels already do this

    From 2 comments
    • Recently I spent an hour trying to get a bunch of "self hosted ngrok alternatives" to work and couldn't figure out any of them. Either I couldn't get them to compile or their…
      macawfish on HN
    • Ssh tunnels work well
      beardedwizard on HN
  • No plain TCP support, only HTTP over WebSockets

    From 2 comments
    • Except ngrok supports ssh. These projects really need to consider plain TCP connections. It's a deal breaker for me. My company installs ngrok on our embedded devices. When there…
      pknopf on HN
    • Interesting, I will definitely try this out. If the Kubernetes ingress integration works well and it's stable, this could be really awesome. I'm a bit curious about the choice of…
      Legogris on HN

Requests

  • Support plain TCP connections

    From 1 comment
    • Except ngrok supports ssh. These projects really need to consider plain TCP connections. It's a deal breaker for me. My company installs ngrok on our embedded devices. When there…
      pknopf on HN

Questions

  • Why websockets instead of plain TCP tunnelling

    From 1 comment
    • Interesting, I will definitely try this out. If the Kubernetes ingress integration works well and it's stable, this could be really awesome. I'm a bit curious about the choice of…
      Legogris on HN

Alternatives named

  • ngrok

    From 2 comments
    • Seems like https://ngrok.com/ with extra steps
      Svoka on HN
    • Except ngrok supports ssh. These projects really need to consider plain TCP connections. It's a deal breaker for me. My company installs ngrok on our embedded devices. When there…
      pknopf on HN
  • localtunnel

    From 2 comments
    • This looks very useful. I'm currently using localtunnel.me for this but will definitely give this a try too and subdomain option sometimes doesn't work on localtunnel.
      superasn on HN
    • I use https://localtunnel.github.io/www/ Simple and works well
      Zaheer on HN
  • serveo

    From 2 comments
    • Serveo is another good alternative to Inlets or ngrok that is completely free and pretty flexible: https://serveo.net/
      rohug on HN
    • https://serveo.net is similar.
      trevordixon on HN
  • localhost.run

    From 1 comment
  • sish

    From 1 comment
    • Shameless self plug, but I wrote something that does the exact same thing as this (https://github.com/antoniomika/sish) but has some added benefits: 1. Don't require installing a…
      antoniomika on HN
  • frp

    From 1 comment
    • I've been using https://github.com/fatedier/frp to expose UDP endpoints for a while. Works pretty well.
      tyrbo on HN

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