Re:Why Not WireGuard (2020)
by HunterWare on Sunday October 17, 2021 @11:48AM
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Your analogy alone deserves a chef’s kiss along with an upvote. =)
Yeah well said. I don't know much about Wireguard, but I know OpenVPN is slow and painful and you can just tell from the tone of the article that they doth protest too much.
Kind of like those articles from businesses who are going to be destroyed by bigger companies entering their space - "we welcome the competition; the more the merrier" they say, but you know they're thinking "oh shit we're screwed". Slack/Teams is the most recent example I can think of.
It is rooted in a lack of imagination. The entire argument is basically because this network does not do exactly what Cisco and the big VPN vendors with large enterprise deployments and bare-metal machines and thousands of end node clients it will not displace them.
That’s like arguing that the streaming will not displace CDROMs, because streaming cannot be rotated in a disc drive at a sufficient speed. The author acknowledges containers, but disregards the growth of zero-trust-networking and evergreen deployment models.
Technologies like Tailscale and ZPA, Docker and Snap, and immutable operating systems are being quickly adopted. These change the equation to the point that traditional approaches around ZScalar may feel as obsolete as a 5.25 floppy in a CDROM world.