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Ask HN: Agencies/MSPs, how do you manage VPN access across many clients?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47333997Hi HN,we're a software development agency with several clients scattered across Europe. Due to the nature of our products many require to connect to the client's VPN to offer assistance and perform maintenance. Most times we can't install our own VPN.This has led to some of our devs needing to manage more than 20 different VPNs, all with different clients (sometimes with incompatible versions, looking at you Fortinet), credentials, expirations, tokens and such. Some of those get unused for months, only to discover they're broken when you most need them to fix an outage in production. For us, it has become a mess.So the first question for you: Is this a fairly common problem or is this just us? If it is, did you solve it in any way? I've been looking for tools to streamline this but haven't found anything.That said, we’ve been exploring an idea for a while: basically a control layer on top of existing VPNs. A sort of virtualization framework where vpn clients run on containers managed bMar 11, 2026 10:57 AM





