Inlets is a cloud-native tunneling software that allows you to connect your local services securely to the internet. It allows you to host private and public services on your local machine and make them available over the public internet using an encrypted tunnel. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Inlets on Linux Mint Latest.
The first step is to download the Inlets binary using the following command:
$ wget https://github.com/inlets/inlets/releases/download/VERSION/inlets-pro-linux-amd64.tar.gz
Replace VERSION with the latest version of Inlets available.
After downloading the Inlets binary, extract it using the following command:
$ tar -xzf inlets-pro-linux-amd64.tar.gz
This will create a new directory inlets-pro with the Inlets binary inlets-pro.
Next, move the Inlets binary to the /usr/local/bin directory using the following command:
$ sudo mv inlets-pro /usr/local/bin/inlets
This will move the Inlets binary to the /usr/local/bin directory and rename it to inlets.
To verify the installation of Inlets, run the following command:
$ inlets version
This should output the version number of Inlets installed on your system.
To start using Inlets, you need to create a configuration file with your settings. You can find an example configuration file inlets-pro.service.example in the inlets-pro directory. Copy this file to /etc/systemd/system/ using the following command:
$ sudo cp inlets-pro.service.example /etc/systemd/system/inlets-pro.service
Replace inlets-pro.service.example with the name of the example file you downloaded.
Next, edit the /etc/systemd/system/inlets-pro.service file and replace <SERVER-URL> with your server URL and <SECRET-TOKEN> with your secret token. Save the file and exit.
After creating the configuration file, use the following commands to start and enable the Inlets service:
$ sudo systemctl daemon-reload
$ sudo systemctl start inlets-pro
$ sudo systemctl enable inlets-pro
This will start the Inlets service and enable it to start automatically on system boot.
Congratulations, you have successfully installed Inlets on Linux Mint Latest. You can now use Inlets to securely expose your local services to the internet.
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