Using OpenVPN on Cloudron as a client for other VPN services?
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@scooke Yes, you can add a VPN connection as Cloudron wide. The apps then get a Network tab where you can go in and select the VPN connection.
The UI is simple but the implementation was quite complex since it involved some docker networking magic.
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Would be quite an interesting business case for smaller corp. users tbh - KASM can do something similar with their sidecar VPN service (or docker desktop with integrated VPN as it's now available with the development version). This enables users to use the Kasm frontend (which is basically Guacamole), connect to docker desktop instance and then use a VPN to the desktop to the Final destination (e.g) in a jumpserver setting.
The downside is the ridiculous pricing of Kasm workspaces for commercial customers - 600-1200$ for a rarely used tool is unfeasible for most smaller customers.Cloudron could really be useful as a "rougher but still working solution":
While we have no Docker desktop on Linux, these could easily be hosted elsewhere and are provided by various projects.
BUT people should not keep these desktops publicly available via VNC/RDP - That is where Guacamole cones into play.
One option would be to use Guacamole to point to an internal network "behind" a Cloudron instance in a DMZ. But that is currently not possible as Cloudron basically only supports one network,right?
(See my other topic about this from 2022)The other, imho much easier to achieve, option would be to make Cloudron internal network connection to OpenVPN instances (Portainer is an example of a project than has done similar things) on a container to container base - e.g. letting Guacamole connect to a WG/OpenVPN to then connect to the required external resources.
Even without providing a actual Docker Desktop it would still make it much much easier and safer to provide properly separated infrastructure.
(Besides, in my jumpserver scrnario of course Guacamole alone can act as an direct Jump to the target infrastructure then).Tbh,I currently don't see a way for people to safely use Guacamole on Cloudron in a public environment safely at all.
Offering something in that regard would be an compelling business case, even nore so as Cloudron of course offers a massive "SSO" solution for all the other business needs as well.
@girish We would actually ve willing to sponsor that feature at least partially-Feel free to contact me.
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Hello people!
I have been searching far and wide for a solution to this exact problem, and I couldn't find anything but this 4 years old discussion about a prototype (https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/3667/openvpn-client-with-poll). Any change you would have an ETA for this feature, or a workaround you could recommend? -
Hello @nottheend
Is there a complexity or a legal issue to not continuing the implementation?
Simply put, demand is not enough for this feature to be put up higher in the prioritisation queue and other tasks and feature requests are higher in demand.
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Hello @nottheend
Is there a complexity or a legal issue to not continuing the implementation?
Simply put, demand is not enough for this feature to be put up higher in the prioritisation queue and other tasks and feature requests are higher in demand.
demand is not enough for this feature to be put up higher in the prioritisation queue
Thanks.
I am still interested in the technical part:
Would it be possible to route all the traffic of cloudron through a VPN? Probably not, because a server need to be publicly propagated via DNS (IP resolution), right?So just to understand it right: Is the solution for this feature request to 1) "route all traffic to the cloudron VPN endpoint via a third party VPN?
Technically the "endpoint" would still "Just arrive within the network of the cloudron server", is it?(I may still have some gaps in understanding the whole VPN/Networking topic)
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demand is not enough for this feature to be put up higher in the prioritisation queue
Thanks.
I am still interested in the technical part:
Would it be possible to route all the traffic of cloudron through a VPN? Probably not, because a server need to be publicly propagated via DNS (IP resolution), right?So just to understand it right: Is the solution for this feature request to 1) "route all traffic to the cloudron VPN endpoint via a third party VPN?
Technically the "endpoint" would still "Just arrive within the network of the cloudron server", is it?(I may still have some gaps in understanding the whole VPN/Networking topic)
Hello @nottheend
- "route all traffic to the cloudron VPN endpoint via a third party VPN?
The idea would be to only allow access to configured apps through the Cloudron VPN app or a custom VPN you can configure.
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