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k8s-ipsec-cni

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James, we respectfully disagree. I think it's helpful if you (or anyone reading this) compare two projects side by side. This is the project you have submitted: https://github.com/jameskeane/scrambler It is a prototype of IPSec CNI plugin using Bash. We are happy you are promoting your project online and as we've discussed during the interview, you could use it as you wish as it's your work. This is the project that we have created at Gravitational: https://github.com/gravitational/wormhole It is using Go, Wireguard and is designed for production use under Apache 2 license. I understand that similarities in the problem statement may have led you to believe that we could re-use the project idea, I'm assuring that you that we have not. There are many OSS CNI plugins in the market solving the similar problem in a similar fashion (e.g. flanne
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l with IPSec backend). As a matter of fact that's the main reason we have picked this as a problem statement - to make it easier for candidates to look around for prior work. For example, this is a submission of the engineer we've hired based on their similar execution of the assignment from April 2018: https://github.com/webvictim/k8s-ipsec-cni James, I wish you the best and hope that my response clarifies some confusion around this. Sasha, CTO and co-founder at Gravitational
In Gravitational Wormhole: WireGuard for Kubernetes
FYI, I was hired by Gravitational back in April 2018 and I was given that same take-home assignment as part of the interview process - to write a CNI plugin for k8s which created an encrypted mesh network between nodes. My work is here: https://github.com/webvictim/k8s-ipsec-cni I found some other resources/projects online while I was writing this which indicated that I certainly wasn't the first interviewee to be asked to do this - I evidently wasn't the last either as your project shows. My point is that it seems Gravitational has had this 'idea' for quite some time as they've been using it as an interview question for at least the year 2018. I don't feel like that constitutes them using anyone's interview work as free labour.
In Gravitational Wormhole: WireGuard for Kubernetes

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