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
The thread, comment by comment
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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 HNAt 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 HNSsh 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 HNInteresting, 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 HNExcept 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 HNI 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 HNhttps://serveo.net is similar.
trevordixon on HN
localhost.run
From 1 comment
Or my personal favourite: http://localhost.run/
gitgud on HN
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