Published at June 3, 2021 · 6 min read
Release v1.2.1 introduces a built-in SOCKSv5 server. SOCKS is a simple protocol for relaying a TCP or UDP request to a destination server. It’s typically used to navigate traffic through a firewall. To summarize the protocol: a SOCKS server will receive a connection from a client and a request to connect to a host. The request includes the protocol (TCP or UDP), a destination, either a hostname or IP address, and the port for that host....
Published at May 10, 2021 · 5 min read
Release v1.2.0 introduce Webhook events and updates to the dashboard to allow more administration and configuration through the web-bases UI. You can now completely configure Spokes and manage users, tokens, tunnels and more in the Spokes dashboard! In addition, we’ve added service checks for the upstream application that are hosted behind tunnels. HTTP/S and TCP applications can be checked by Spokes to determine if the upstream service is running and accessible....
Published at May 10, 2021 · 2 min read
In this new version of the client, v0.10.9, we’ve made several updates to allow the client to integrate better with Spokes servers. Service Health Checks Added a new API endpoint to the internal client API to allow the Spokes server to check the availability of the upstream services hosted behind tunnels. The checks are implemented using a HEAD request for HTTP-based services and a simple open TCP connection for others. The backend availability to returned to the Spokes server....
Published at April 11, 2021 · 3 min read
Release v1.1.2 builds on-top of the unannounced v1.1.1 release with making container-based installation and deployments simple to set up and configure. Previously we only supported RPM packages for Linux, however, containers allow us to support more Linux distributions and container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes. We are also supporting a Homebrew package for macOS. Installs and upgrades using the brew package manager are now possible. An example command is below: [user@macos ] brew install packetriot/homebrew-tools/spokes More details on our container deployment update and other new features below....