Package request: Pangolin stack

[jackrosenberg]

Describe the package

The Pangolin is a self-hosted tunneled reverse proxy with identity and access management, designed to securely expose private resources through encrypted WireGuard tunnels running in user space. Think self hosted Cloudflare tunnels.

Upstream homepage

https://docs.fossorial.io/overview

Source URL

https://github.com/fosrl/pangolin

License

AGPL-3.0 license

Platforms

x86_64-linux

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Please tag this issue in your pull request description. (i.e. Resolves #ISSUE.)

[SigmaSquadron]

Hi! Thanks for opening this issue. Have you considered contributing this application with a pull request by packaging it yourself? If you plan on using this application on the long term, it will certainly be beneficial to have you as its maintainer. Should you need help with packaging, feel free to reach out on Matrix or Discourse.

[jackrosenberg]

Sure, I'll take a crack at it.

[Daviey]

Hi @jackrosenberg, how are you getting on? Would love to test what you have so far, or work on it together.

[jackrosenberg]

Hey hey, I think i'm almost done! fork link (branch bigass_confs)
It's a bit messy, and i'm sure i've butchered the best practices, but it currently gets all the services built and running, as well as creating the website at https://<dashboardUrl>. I'm having an issue i dont understand getting Newt to connect to the VPS from the edge server, so i've made an issue: link
Any help is appreciated, i'm reachable on @not-jack:matrix.org

[jackrosenberg]

Update: done! #416148, just waiting for merge now :)

[nikhilmaddirala]

Hey, any update on this?

[SigmaSquadron]

Plenty of updates, in fact. @jackrosenberg has been extremely hard at work for the past four months to get the Pangolin modules merged.

Currently, using them requires you to get different branches from jack's fork and my fork and combine them in a merge commit that you can point your configuration to. We're waiting for the 1.8.0 update in #419533 to get merged, in order to unblock the main Pangolin module in #416148 and further improvements like the Olm module and documentation in #428592.

If you would like to help, please review any of these PRs.

[nikhilmaddirala]

Thank you so much! I'm still fairly new to Nix, so I'm afraid I'm not qualified to review any of these PRs. I'm also not sure if/how my review would help because I'm not a repo maintainer or contributor? Once this gets merged into nixpgs-unstable, I'll be sure to try it out and share feedback! 😊

[SigmaSquadron]

Hi again. We've changed our policies recently, and unfortunately, in order to mitigate the unsustainable growth of unmaintained packages, Nixpkgs is no longer using package requests to coordinate new package additions.

That said, we still encourage you to contribute this package as a Pull Request yourself - should you need any help during packaging, feel free to reach out on Matrix or Discourse. You are also welcome to open custom Tracking issues if you would like the assistance of other volunteers in packaging a software ecosystem.

This change has the benefit of decreasing future maintainer burden on the long term, and was implemented after several contributors reached a consensus. You can read more about this on Pull Request #391926 and Issue #425040.

[SigmaSquadron]

Added the tracking label to prevent this from being closed, as it's a complicated software ecosystem.