If you run Portainer, and you seek a modern, flexible recipe for how to make it secure while also providing flexible access to your authorized users, this article is for you.

A question that sometimes gets asked is: What types of companies, self-hosters, or general use cases, will gain the greatest benefit from using OpenZiti BrowZer?

PKCE, which stands for “Proof of Key Code Exchange”, and is pronounced “pixy,” is an extension of the OAuth 2.0 protocol that provides an additional security layer helping to prevent intercept attacks.

Articles about OpenZiti often discuss application and network security, and this article will follow that trend.

I'm fortunate that I've had the opportunity to work on many interesting projects throughout my career. I was one of the original developers who broke ground on the OpenZiti project back in 2017. Most of my work on OpenZiti centered on the fabric, data and control plane design, and designing abstractions that would support a lot of what became the "edge" layers. It's been quite exciting to watch OpenZiti blossom and grow.

For the last six months, I've had the opportunity to re-approach the world of zero-trust and next-generation networking from the other side of the stack. Instead of working in the lowest layers of protocols and abstractions, I'm working from the perspective of end users and enabling an amazing end-user experience. I'm excited to introduce you to a new set of tools designed to empower end users at the network edge to seamlessly and transparently share resources. Imagine network sharing that is equally secure and transparent.

This new project is called... zrok.

Integrating with Ziti? An Introduction

What is something everyone wants but can be difficult or cumbersome to implement? Better security practices. Here we are going to explore Zero Trust via OpenZiti. Zero Trust is a concept where a network is never trusted and always reverified. Constantly revalidating all connections and participants to validate they should be there. OpenZiti seeks to alleviate the hassle of setting up a zero trust network and putting the power in developers to create more secure apps If you haven't heard of OpenZiti then you can check out the project here as well as an overview. Today we are going to be extending a very helpful http testing tool to talk over Ziti.