Production usage of Wireguard

Fredrik Strömberg stromberg at mullvad.net
Tue Nov 7 13:05:26 CET 2017


On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 10:38 AM, Greg KH <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 06, 2017 at 09:41:18PM +0000, Ferris Ellis wrote:
>> Hello Wireguard mailing list!
>>
>> I have been very interested in the WireGuard project for a little while now
>> and am in the process of evaluating it. While benchmarks and code reviews
>> are useful, they don’t uncover many of the issues that can potentially wake
>> one up at 3am. I’d hunted around on the web for a while but wasn’t able to
>> find any articles on running WireGuard in a production environment. I know
>> the project is still young but was wondering if anyone on the mailing list
>> had started using WireGuard in production? And, if so, if they’d be willing
>> to share some details about their use case and experience?
>
> There are at least two companies offering Wireguard as a VPN service
> "commercially" right now, so it is being used in that manner already.
>

Hi everyone,

We (Mullvad) use it in production on a bunch of our servers. Here's a
blog post I wrote about it that might be of interest to you Ferris:
https://mullvad.net/blog/2017/9/27/wireguard-future/

> But as "production environment" always means different things for
> different people, perhaps only you can answer this question?  What would
> it take for _you_ to be comfortable with it in your network environment?

I second Greg's question. What are your criteria?

Cheers,
Fredrik Strömberg


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