Are there many big installations of it? With the vast majority of stuff being written for regular networks I do wonder if the amount of proxies/sidecars becomes unreasonable. Probably not though
So we have not finished our job to make OpenZiti the equivalent to Linux in that every just uses it by default, but we will get there ;)
You raise an interesting point. We provide flexibility for ingress/egress... do not like proxies/sidecars, go in either opposite direction, (1) ZTAA, Zero Trust App access with SDK app embedded via SDLC, (2) ZTNA, Zero Trust Network Access via appliance deployments in DMZ/VP/VNET etc (the one you mention is ZTHA, Host Access). Each of ZTNA/HA/AA have different pros and cons based on your requirements and use case.
This one is the most compelling to me! A while back I was building a small cloud provider and this was the use case I was looking really closely at OpenZiti for.
Thanks for sharing!
>You raise an interesting point. We provide flexibility for ingress/egress... do not like proxies/sidecars, go in either opposite direction, (1) ZTAA, Zero Trust App access with SDK app embedded via SDLC, (2) ZTNA, Zero Trust Network Access via appliance deployments in DMZ/VP/VNET etc (the one you mention is ZTHA, Host Access). Each of ZTNA/HA/AA have different pros and cons based on your requirements and use case.
Ah so this would work if:
1) all the apps were my own
2) I was sitting on top of a major cloud/managed colo (I'm just sitting on top of infra providers like hetzner)
The project I was working on is not so active right now but it's still chugging along (I use it)... I was looking at things like OpenZiti as a k8s CNI provider, or used along with something like Cilium/Calico (but then they'd both promise network security in-between workloads and overlap)
Yes, OpenZiti very much focus on private apps, whether COTS or inhouse developed.
Oh, I should note too, while we have a bunch of ways to deploy OpenZiti on K8S today, we are in the process of building/releasing an admission controller and an ingress controller for OpenZiti.
Whats the project you work on?
