Nebula Mesh Management

Nebula Admin is a modern, centralized control plane for managing decentralized Nebula mesh networks. Built with a high-performance backend and a responsive frontend, it enables administrators to easily deploy, monitor, and maintain secure network infrastructures using a web interface.

Whether you’re overseeing a small internal mesh or a large-scale global deployment, Nebula Admin simplifies and secures operations with features tailored for observability, automation, and enterprise-level control.

Key Features

1. Network Management

• Real-time dashboard with visibility into active devices, certificate status, lighthouses, and blacklisted nodes.
• Interactive network topology graph for mesh structure visualization.
• Automated Certificate Authority (CA) management with full monitoring.

2. Device Management

• Full device inventory with filtering, search, and real-time status indicators.
• Quick actions to connect, disconnect, block, or delete devices.
• Configuration file generator for Linux, macOS, and Windows platforms.
• Certificate monitoring, expiry alerts, and revocation options.

3. Lighthouse Management

• Add, configure, and manage lighthouse nodes.
• Support for multiple external IPs per lighthouse.
• Custom configuration templates for lighthouse deployments.

4. Device Registration

• One-time token-based registration for secure provisioning.
• Password-based registration for controlled onboarding.
• Downloadable client binaries for all major platforms.
• Customizable registration policies (TTL, group assignment, etc).

5. Security

• Blacklist management to block unauthorized devices.
• Secure API access via JWT-based authentication.
• Robust CA management and certificate signing tools.

6. System Configuration

• Initial setup wizard for fast onboarding.
• Mesh subnet and custom subnet configuration.
• CA naming and certificate lifespan customization.

Documentation & Resources

• Built-in help with configuration examples.
• CLI automation examples for provisioning and registration.
• Config templates for various deployment scenarios.

• Generate an SSH key pair to connect to your virtual machine (VM).

• Create a VM from a public image. In the Image/boot disk selection section, go to the Cloud Marketplace tab and choose nebula. In the Access section:

  • In the Login field, enter a username, for example ubuntu;
  • In the SSH key field, paste the contents of your public SSH key file.
    Save the public IP address of the VM.

• Connect to the VM via SSH. Use the login your-username and the private SSH key you generated earlier.

• After creating the virtual machine, open its public IP address in your browser.

• Centralized management for organizations using Nebula mesh networks.
• Secure remote access for employees or branch offices.
• Certificate lifecycle and device identity management.
• Implementation of Zero Trust networking principles.

OpenNix provides technical support to Nebula Admin users in Yandex Cloud. You can contact their technical support by email at support@opennix.ru. Support engineers are available on business days from 9 am to 6 pm GMT+3.