Re: ZeroTier Review

Hello Dear Community,

I played wth ZeroTier some and use it by their hosted service some time now and also set up a cluster by first defining it "old-style" by building the planets file (in attic/world) and distributing it to the corresponding nodes. It worked and now tried building the network controller from the source what also worked without problem. Can talk to it with REST API and will probably deploy it in a k8s cluster with service that makes the automation for authorization etc.

What I didnt get is after I build the network controller part from source with the make option for controller as referenced (ZT_ENABLE_NETWORK_CONTROLLER), how do I tell the nodes to join exactly this private network controller? I mean they all have by installing zerotier the hardcoded roots / planet definition as default or am I mistaken?

Thx for any help and be healthy at this time!

Dear all, after some hrs and a great advise of a found personal resource, I got it to work with 3 planets, online and accepting connections. Gonna use the public but for testing it suffices

Thx to anyones input and stay safe/healthy!

@stacksofplates
basically you have to update the planet definition and also include the public identity into the fold. Then they find each other and are online. I will bow try to make it work as a cluster. Keep this post updated...

Dear all, after some hrs and a great advise of a found personal resource, I got it to work with 3 planets, online and accepting connections. Gonna use the public but for testing it suffices

Thx to anyones input and stay safe/healthy!

Well i tried it with my own planet file and it doesnt work anymore. The zerotier client never updates itself and is offline for all planets. If I take their planets in, it comes offline. It seems you cannot decouple yourself and so for any teal business case in Europe I can forget this solution since nobody is gonna go this way.

@stacksofplates actually I did manually, building the planets file in the working directory myself. Its a bit hacky but works. Problem is the nodes need the same planets file. I thought maybe there is an easier way.

Because I already use Wireguard but want to play with ZT @travisdh1

Again I noticed the new ZT has no option of ZT_ENABLE... anymore but is included in the general binary build. Still the same problem of deactivating the public roots (ALICE/BOB) and telling the nodes to just contact my private controller.

Hi @JaredBusch yeah I read your input. I think its easier if used for a productive env since customers would prefer sometimes an own setup with own network HA controllers.

Re: ZeroTier Review

Hello Dear Community,

I played wth ZeroTier some and use it by their hosted service some time now and also set up a cluster by first defining it "old-style" by building the planets file (in attic/world) and distributing it to the corresponding nodes. It worked and now tried building the network controller from the source what also worked without problem. Can talk to it with REST API and will probably deploy it in a k8s cluster with service that makes the automation for authorization etc.

What I didnt get is after I build the network controller part from source with the make option for controller as referenced (ZT_ENABLE_NETWORK_CONTROLLER), how do I tell the nodes to join exactly this private network controller? I mean they all have by installing zerotier the hardcoded roots / planet definition as default or am I mistaken?

Thx for any help and be healthy at this time!