From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: reuben.m.work@gmail.com Received: from krantz.zx2c4.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by krantz.zx2c4.com (ZX2C4 Mail Server) with ESMTP id 91e0e86e for ; Tue, 7 Nov 2017 13:24:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wr0-f173.google.com (mail-wr0-f173.google.com [209.85.128.173]) by krantz.zx2c4.com (ZX2C4 Mail Server) with ESMTP id 49838bc6 for ; Tue, 7 Nov 2017 13:24:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wr0-f173.google.com with SMTP id o88so1010320wrb.6 for ; Tue, 07 Nov 2017 05:27:18 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: From: Reuben Martin Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2017 07:27:17 -0600 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Production usage of Wireguard To: wireguard@lists.zx2c4.com Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="f403045f50f0acbb6c055d648771" List-Id: Development discussion of WireGuard List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , --f403045f50f0acbb6c055d648771 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Nov 6, 2017 3:41 PM, "Ferris Ellis" wrote: > Hello Wireguard mailing list! > > I have been very interested in the WireGuard project for a little while > now and am in the process of evaluating it. While benchmarks and code > reviews are useful, they don=E2=80=99t uncover many of the issues that ca= n > potentially wake one up at 3am. I=E2=80=99d hunted around on the web for = a while > but wasn=E2=80=99t able to find any articles on running WireGuard in a pr= oduction > environment. I know the project is still young but was wondering if anyon= e > on the mailing list had started using WireGuard in production? And, if so= , > if they=E2=80=99d be willing to share some details about their use case a= nd > experience. > I've been using it for about 6 months to tie together remote video streaming servers in a star pattern with a vxlan overlay running on top of the wireguard connections. I mostly push low latency video over the connections. I've only had an issue once which was a bug resulting from some refactoring work, and Jason immediately pounced on it and had a fixed release out within a few hours. Honestly, a project with a maintainer that takes ownership of the code base like that imparts much more cred than any "stable" or "production ready" label does. -Reuben --f403045f50f0acbb6c055d648771 Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
On Nov 6, 2017 3:41 PM, "Ferris Ellis" <ferris@ferrisellis.com&= gt; wrote:
Hello Wireguard mailing list!

I have been very interested in the WireGuard project for a = little while now and am in the process of evaluating it. While benchmarks a= nd code reviews are useful, they don=E2=80=99t uncover many of the issues t= hat can potentially wake one up at 3am. I=E2=80=99d hunted around on the we= b for a while but wasn=E2=80=99t able to find any articles on running WireG= uard in a production environment. I know the project is still young but was= wondering if anyone on the mailing list had started using WireGuard in pro= duction? And, if so, if they=E2=80=99d be willing to share some details abo= ut their use case and experience.

I've been using it for about 6 month= s to tie together remote video streaming servers in a star pattern with a v= xlan overlay running on top of the wireguard connections. I mostly push low= latency video over the connections.

I've only had an issue once which was a bug resulting from= some refactoring work, and Jason immediately pounced on it and had a fixed= release out within a few hours. Honestly, a project with a maintainer that= takes ownership of the code base like that imparts much more cred than any= "stable" or "production ready" label does.

-Reuben
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