CI/CD reaches private infra
A GitHub Actions or GitLab job reaches a private database, a staging cluster’s API, or an internal service — with no public endpoint, no bastion, and no long-lived key sitting in CI secrets.
Longbridge Mesh · Exploring
One network for your whole estate.
A managed, Tailscale-compatible mesh — flat per tailnet, never per user or device. EU-hosted, and built to be driven by automation: CI, ephemeral environments, laptops, clusters, clouds.
Tell us if you'd use this— Delaunay triangulation · drifting peers · hue by link length
The idea
Connectivity as code, not a per-seat tax.
A mesh network should be infrastructure you declare — ephemeral, reviewable, programmable — not a directory of seats you pay for one by one. Longbridge Mesh is the connectivity layer a platform team actually wants: the same span-across-clouds idea as the Control Plane, one layer down. Here's the work it's built to do.
Ephemeral environments
Preview environments join the mesh on create and vanish on teardown. Two hundred short-lived nodes a day cost the same as two — flat pricing never punishes automation.
Multi-cloud, as code
Wire laptops, private services, cluster nodes, and clouds onto one network you control — declared and version-controlled like the rest of your infrastructure.
Why it's different
API-first & declarative
A real API, a Terraform/Pulumi provider, and ACL policy as code. The mesh is configured the way you configure infrastructure — GitOps-friendly, reviewable, reproducible.
Ephemeral identity
Short-lived, OIDC/workload-identity join: a CI job presents its token, gets a scoped, ephemeral mesh identity, joins, and deregisters itself. No long-lived keys in CI — ever.
Flat per tailnet
Never per user, never per device. The exact opposite of per-seat billing — so adding people, laptops, and ephemeral nodes doesn’t grow the bill.
Better together
One network that already runs your clusters.
If you run Longbridge Control Plane, your cluster nodes already ride a private mesh. Longbridge Mesh exposes that network as a product: your CI, laptops, private services, and cluster nodes live on one tailnet you control — and you reach your private cluster API over it, with no public endpoint and no bastion. Take it bundled with a cluster, or stand-alone if you don't run managed Kubernetes with us — yet.
Pricing
Flat per tailnet. Pay only for what we forward.
The same doctrine as the Control Plane: flat for the service, metered only where our cost genuinely scales. Direct and hole-punched traffic costs us nothing, so it's free and unmetered. Only relay-forwarded bytes meter — and that meter has a cap, an alert before it, and an opt-out that guarantees a zero bill.
Solo
~€6/mo · per tailnet
A small network, flat-priced.
- Generous device ceiling
- Direct traffic free & unmetered
- Community support
TeamFor automation
~€15–19/mo · per tailnet
The programmable tier.
- ACL-as-code + SSO/OIDC join
- The Terraform provider
- Higher ceilings, email support
Relay
~€0.04/GB · forwarded
Only when a direct path can't form.
- A generous included allowance
- Capped where you set it
- Opt out → a real €0
Ex-VAT, and indicative while we explore this — the model is settled (flat per tailnet; only relay metered; capped and opt-out-to-zero), the numbers are not. Bundled with Control Plane, an org tailnet is included or discounted.
The honest part
Not for hobbyists
If you’re a solo homelabber, the incumbents’ free tier serves you better than we would — and we’ll say so. Mesh is for teams past the free tier, automation-heavy setups, and EU-sovereignty buyers.
Compatible, by goodwill
It speaks the standard client protocol, but that compatibility is goodwill, not a contract. We run this stack ourselves and keep a documented fall-back path — we won’t strand you.
EU-hosted & resident
A GDPR-resident, EU-jurisdiction coordination plane — and someone else’s pager. If the coordinator ever blips, your existing tunnels keep flowing; it’s off the data path.
Help us decide
We're exploring this — and we want to hear from you.
Longbridge Mesh isn't a shipping product yet; it's a direction we're weighing. If the flat-priced, programmable, EU-hosted mesh is something you'd actually use — especially for CI or platform work — tell us. Real demand is what moves it from exploration to roadmap.
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