Client Update v0.10.9

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....

Spokes v1.1.2

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....

Spokes v1.1.0

Published at February 18, 2021 ·  4 min read

Release v1.1.0 of Spokes is a big update and includes many new features. This release also lays the ground work for many future improvements that are on our roadmap and will shape Spokes into a robust tunneling and web server with more automation support and simpler integration with external systems. Dashboard Updates We’ve added more metrics to our dashboard to provide more useful information to admins. Active tunnels, those that were created but not necessarily online, are broken out....

Client Update v0.10.8

Published at February 1, 2021 ·  4 min read

We’ve been quietly publishing client updates since last post in December ‘20. These have been bug fixes mostly. This release includes support for a new flag that can be used for specify the destination for HTTP/S traffic that is routed through tunnels. Upstream URL Destination We’ve added a new flag --upstream-url and can be used with the pktriot http command. It can also be used with persistent traffic rules with the pktriot tunnel http add command....