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Ask HN: Which hardware to ship to customer as SSH “jumpbox”?
I'm looking for a small / cheap hardware appliance that can be shipped to locations and just need to be plugged into a network cable / power. It should then connect to some kind of cloud and be accessible for me so I can deploy code to it or just SSH into it. It's important that there's no maintenance necessary and it just auto-connects in case there's issues.
I found products which look somewhat related:
- https://kubesail.com/blog/pibox-raspberry-pi-powered-nas
- https://docs.balena.io/learn/getting-started/raspberrypi3/python/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIPE_Atlas
Any hints on keywords on how to find something like that? My main use case would be to run a Squid proxy at the location.
Thanks!
- yuppie_scum 3y agoTailscale is the new hotness.
- dewey 3y agoYes, that would be an interestion option for the networking part of it, but the hardware / OS is the more unclear part to me right now.
- benasse 3y agoI had done some research to deploy something similar based on open source projects. I was thinking of using Armbian on Orange Pi R1 Plus LTS and Shellhub for the remote access.
- dewey 3y agoThe Orange Pi looks interesting, that's another good option it seems. Thanks for sahring. I was wondering if there's already a more "off the shelf" solution where you just initialize them, ship them out and then be able to deploy Docker images / packages to it easily.