OpenVLAN exists because the way organizations connect — per-office hardware, per-app VPNs, per-contractor firewall rules — was designed for a world that no longer exists.
Make secure connectivity a property of identity. Wherever a person or workload is, whatever network they're on, reaching what they're authorized to reach should be one login — and nothing else should be reachable at all.
The project started as an internal tool at a distributed infrastructure team frustrated by the same three tickets every week: VPN resets, bastion access requests, and "is staging down or is it just me?" The first version connected eleven laptops and one rack. It took twenty minutes to set up and the tickets stopped. That ratio — minutes to set up, weeks of toil erased — became the product thesis.
organizations with a tailnet
integrations
continents with active nodes (yes, including Antarctic research stations)
inbound ports required
This page is an illustrative demo — figures and story are fictional.
Small team, hard problems, users who notice the details.