The release of the SKUDONET 7.1 project has been announced, developing a specialized distribution based on Debian GNU/Linux, optimized for deploying traffic balancers and reverse proxies, as well as for creating infrastructure for application delivery. It supports the creation of balancers for HTTP/HTTPS and implements services for distributing arbitrary TCP and UDP traffic across nodes. System management and monitoring is conducted via a web interface. The size of the bootable ISO image is 844 MB. In addition to the ready-made build, a package repository is provided, which can be used to create a SKUDONET environment based on already installed Debian systems.
The release is based on Debian 12 and comes with the Linux kernel 6.1.90. The changes compared to the previous branch include expanded hardware support and the implementation of new features related to the network stack, virtualization, memory management, security, and power management introduced in kernel 6.1 (the previous SKUDONET Community Edition used kernel 4.19). Support for DHCP-based identification has been added. (the key to connect to is specified, and iroh finds the associated host and establishes an encrypted connection using the QUIC protocol). Direct P2P connections are established whenever possible, but if not, it falls back to using relays, which are also employed for host discovery by keys. You can run your own relay or connect to public relays supported by the community. in the balancer via DHCP. The option to specify domain names instead of IP addresses when configuring backends in the balancer has been provided.
Source: opennet.ru
