VPNs (Pritunl/SoftEther) & Peer-To-Peer Overlay Networking (Nebula/ZeroTier/Tailscale)

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List of Open Source Software:

 

Peer To Peer:

 

Defined Networking / Slack Nebula:

Information: Written In Golang

Use Case: best for server-to-server and server-to-network infrastructure

GitHub: https://github.com/slackhq/nebula

Website: https://www.defined.net/

Tailscale:

Information: Uses WireGuard and written In Golang

Use Case: best for user/server-to-server and user/server-to-network

GitHub: https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale

Website: https://tailscale.com/

ZeroTier:

Information: Written In C/C++

Use Case: best for user-to-user or user-to-server

GitHub: https://github.com/zerotier/ZeroTierOne

Website: https://www.zerotier.com/

 

Nebula REST API: (Management API for Deploying Nebula)

GitHub: https://github.com/elestio/nebula-rest-api

Headscale: (For Tailscale Self-Hosting)

GitHub: https://github.com/juanfont/headscale

 

VPNs:

 

Pritunl:

Information: OpenVPN Based and written In Python

Use Case: best for user-to-user or user-to-network, and supports high-availability.

GitHub: https://github.com/pritunl/pritunl

Website: https://pritunl.com/

SoftEther:

Use Case: best for user-to-user or user-to-network

GitHub: https://github.com/SoftEtherVPN/SoftEtherVPN/

Website: https://www.softether.org/

 

Tutorials & Information:

 

About Nebula: https://slack.engineering/introducing-nebula-the-open-source-global-overlay-network-from-slack/

 

Slack Nebula is production ready with support to saturate 10+Gbps links as tested by Slack in production.