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title: "Inlets CLI"
url: "https://forum.qnap.net.pl/threads/inlets-cli.37319/"
thread_id: 37319
date: "2021-03-15"
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# Inlets CLI

> Source: <https://forum.qnap.net.pl/threads/inlets-cli.37319/> · Download · Forum QNAP Polska · 2021-03-15

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Nowa aplikacja QPKG w sklepie Qnapclub Store: Inlets CLI

Cloud Native Tunnel,Expose your local endpoints to the Internet or within a remote network, without touching firewalls.

https://github.com/inlets/inlets

inlets ® is how you connect services between different networks. You won't have to think about managing firewalls, NAT or VPNs again. Services can be tunnelled securely over a websocket and accessed on a remote network privately, or exposed on the Internet using an exit-server (5-10USD / mo).

Why do we need this project? Similar tools such as ngrok and Argo Tunnel from Cloudflare are closed-source, have limits built-in, can work out expensive, and have limited support for arm/arm64, Docker and Kubernetes. Ngrok's domain is also often banned by corporate firewall policies meaning it can be unusable. Other open-source tunnel tools are designed to only set up a single static tunnel.

With inlets you can set up your own self-hosted tunnel, copy over the static binary and start tunnelling traffic without any arbitrary limits or restrictions. When used with TLS, inlets can be used with most corporate HTTP proxies.

![](https://forum.qnap.net.pl/attachments/36400/)**About inlets**

inlets uses a websocket to create to create a tunnel between a client and a server. The server is typically a machine with a public IP address, and the client is on a private network with no public address.

inlets is considered production-ready, but you should do some testing before you depend on it. For a commercially-supported solution, see inlets PRO, which enables additional use-cases, has more thorough testing and secure defaults.

**Private or public tunnels?**

A private tunnel is where you start a tunnel to a server and only expose it on the server's LAN address (this can replace the use-cases where you would use a VPN or Kubernetes federation)

A public tunnel is where you expose the private service to users via the server's public IP

**Features**

Tunnel HTTP or websockets

Client announces the tunnelled services to the server

Expose multiple sites on same port through the use of DNS entries and a Host header

Upgrade to link encryption using TLS for websockets (wss://) with an external add-on, or inlets PRO

Shared authentication token for the client and server

Automatic reconnects for when the connection drops

**Distribution:**

Binaries and Docker images for multiple architecture - Intel and ARM

Kubernetes YAML files and Dockerfile

systemd unit file for client/server

Native Kubernetes Service and LoadBalancer integration with inlets-operator

Going to production with inlets PRO

The following features / use-cases are covered by inlets PRO:

Tunnel L4 TCP traffic such as websockets, databases, reverse proxies, remote desktop and SSH

Tunnel L7 HTTPS / REST traffic - with automated Let's Encrypt support

Expose multiple ports from the same client - i.e. 80 and 443

Run a reverse proxy or Kubernetes IngressController directly on your host

Automated TLS for the control-plane

Commercial services & support

Documentation, blog posts, tutorials and videos

**TIP ME !!**

Your gratitude and finance will help me to continue integration of this QPKG and maintain up to date versions.

![](https://forum.qnap.net.pl/attachments/36401/)

Modele: TS-XA28A,TS-NASX86 64bits,TS-X31,TS-X41

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