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openziti / zrok

zrok

Secure internet sharing made simple.

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What it is

Secure internet sharing made simple.

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by month10 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2023-02-08 17:51:02 UTC to 2025-05-12 11:10:39 UTC.

0122023-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 commentsFeb 20232023-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2023-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2024-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsMar 20242024-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsMay 2025

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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Feb 20232023-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-03-01 00:00:00 UTC202
Mar 20232023-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-04-01 00:00:00 UTC202
Apr 20232023-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-05-01 00:00:00 UTC000
May 20232023-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-06-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Jun 20232023-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-07-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 20232023-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-08-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 20232023-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-09-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Sep 20232023-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-10-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Oct 20232023-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-11-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 20232023-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-12-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 20232023-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-02-01 00:00:00 UTC110
Feb 20242024-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-03-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 20242024-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-04-01 00:00:00 UTC000
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Jun 20242024-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-07-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 20242024-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-08-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 20242024-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-09-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Sep 20242024-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-10-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 20242024-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-11-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 20242024-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-12-01 00:00:00 UTC000
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May 20252025-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-06-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

10 sources
dovholuknf·May 12, 2025
The project I am a maintainer on, OpenZiti is an open source project that has high-quality MacOS, iOS, Windows, Android and linux clients https://openziti.io/docs/learn/introduction/ OpenZiti underpins the private connectivity from zrok, another opensource project and is one of the ones that is __not__ riding on wireguard which many people think is a good thing, but sometimes people are interested in a wireguard-based approach. There is a huge list of alternatives as well you can find at https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling. You can find OpenZiti and zrok on there but the github urls if interested are https://github.com/openziti/ziti and https://github.com/openziti/zrok
In Mycoria is an open and secure overlay network that connects all participants
dovholuknf·Aug 15, 2024
OpenZiti maintainer (zrok sometimes). It depends on your definitions of peer to peer. the private sharing functionality is peer-to-peer at the application level using a zero trust tunnel, but it'll ride through/over the openziti overlay network (the zero trust part). If you use the public sharing option, it's definitely "just" a reverse proxy back to your share location without the need to open a firewall hole in your home network. Super useful for plenty of tasks and there are numerous offerings like this. You can self-host everything yourself if you like or you can use the NaaS version provided by NetFoundry. We operate the zrok/openziti overlay for you in that case. To self-host you would need an openziti overlay network, a zrok controller and zrok front end. It's pretty easy (well, easy for me maybe) overall. People are starting to se
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lf-host more and more zrok instances. The software is all strictly opensource and a liberal apache v2 license. You can find them on github: * https://github.com/openziti/ziti/ * https://github.com/openziti/zrok If you (or anyone) appreciate free, open source tooling like this, don't forget to give the projects a star on github and help spread the word! :)
In Zrok: An open source sharing solution built on OpenZiti (zero trust networking)
PLG88·Feb 9, 2023
We had this question in another thread so I will copy paste the answer :) Yes! We're currently targeting an end-user UI for v0.5. My crystal ball is imperfect with regards to timing, so don't hold me to it... but I would imagine that this will probably come out sometime in the summer. https://github.com/openziti/zrok/issues/221 And I would imagine some sort of mobile-first interface would happen after that.
In Zrok: Open-source peer to peer
AlbertoGP·Feb 8, 2023
There was a post one day ago, apparently from the creator of Zrok, giving more context on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34693988 > In the discussions about v0.2, the (now obvious) idea came up to implement something that we're calling "private sharing". It works a lot like the traditional on-demand reverse proxy, except instead of exposing the private endpoint through a public HTTP listener, it binds the shared resource onto an OpenZiti network, where it can be accessed securely by another zrok client. This "other" zrok client exposes an HTTP listener wherever the user wants... but it's usually put on the loopback interface of that user's system. This allows the user to securely access the shared resource on their system as if it's local, even though it's somewhere else on a zero-trust network. > As we've started working thro
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ugh the development of v0.3, we've realized that we can incorporate other useful capabilities, like streamlined file sharing (elegant WebDAV integration is coming). From a quick look, it seems that the self-hostable part (https://github.com/openziti/zrok/blob/main/docs/guides/v0.3_...) is written in Go, and there are SDKs for connecting to it from a variety of languages. Oracle has an article on the underlying network layer which is called OpenZiti, which defines ZeroTrust: > Zero trust assumes there is no implicit trust granted to assets or user accounts based solely on their physical or network location (i.e., local area networks versus the internet) or based on asset ownership (enterprise or personally owned). Authentication and authorization (both subject and device) are discrete functions performed before a session to an enterprise resource is established. All of this sounds very interesting to me, but I have no experience with these kinds of network stacks. Has anyone here evaluated it? Would this be useful for adding document sharing to applications I write, for instance, a hypothetical word processor? I mean sharing with other people working on a document. The SDKs seem to be clients, so to interchange files between two applications with an embedded SDK, does it still need a third machine running an API server?
In Zrok: Open-source peer to peer

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