About the community

Where OpenVLAN users gather, argue about subnet math, and occasionally ship each other's feature requests.

The places

Forum

Long-form questions, configs, and show-your-tailnet threads. Searchable, indexed, kind to future readers.

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Chat

Real-time help and watercooler. Fastest path to an answer at 2am in any timezone.

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Open source

Clients and tooling in the open. Good first issues labeled, releases public.

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Events

Meetups, the annual conference, and Insiders briefings.

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The principles

Beginners are load-bearing

Every expert here started by asking what a tailnet was. Basic questions get real answers, not lmgtfy links.

Show your config

Half of all solutions start with someone pasting their config. Redact the secrets, keep the structure.

Answer in public

Threads over DMs: today's answered question is next searcher's saved evening.

Homelabs count

Some of the best tooling came from someone's basement cluster. Absurd projects welcome.

Be excellent

Standard code of conduct, actively enforced. Grumpy is fine; cruel is gone.

We're in here too

Engineers and support read and post daily — not as a rota, because arguing about networking is genuinely fun for us.

Lurk, ask, or answer — all three help