We went down this path over the last year, lots of our devs need local and dev/test environments and AWS was costing us a bomb, With about 7 Bare metals(Colocation) we are running about 200+ VMs and could double that number with some capacity to spare. For management, we built a simple wrapper over libvirt. I am setting up another rack in the US and will end up costing around $75Kper year for a similar capacity.

Our prod is on AWS but we plan to move everything else and it's expected to save at least a quarter of a million dollars per year

Sounds like a good chunk of money saved, but are you getting the same level of redundancy as you did on the cloud?

For most dev/test workflows redundancy is not a huge concern, because we can just recreate the environments, in practice things are quite stable, most HW vendors like Hp Dell etc let you rent the servers instead of buying them, in case of serious HW issues they take care of the fixes, and usually there is someone at the Colocation site to take care of the day to day

I am working on a couple of things.

- An open version of strongDM/teleport for privileged access management. I am currently testing it out in my org and plan to release the source soon. - I also run a free HTTPS and TCP tunnel which gets a few users daily (https://webrelay.dev)

I made one too, https://webrelay.dev it’s a fun little project, I added TCP tunnels and a lightweight overlay network as well , basically you can start a port on a remote machine and map it to a local port instead of exposing it publicly.

Interesting. Reminds me of https://github.com/hackerschoice/gsocket

I made WebRelay as an alternative to Ngrok. It supports TCP, HTTPs tunnels and allows the user to create a lightweight overlay network to access remote services using local ports. https://docs.webrelay.dev/

This looks cool.

FYI, the "Setup" link under "Zero Config" on the home page is broken.

"Start Here" on the docs doesn't really show you how to get it installed/setup (which is what I was expecting). Same for "Get Started" on the home page.

Also, I couldn't find a link from the docs to the home page so I eventually just edited the URL.