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Comment by irusensei

2 days ago

I'm curious how is this different from the controller software.

It's the level above; it's the thing that hosts the "grid of apps" you see on unifi.ui.com or on a Dream Machine, for example. The Network / Controller app is just one "app" in the "grid of apps." (I get the feeling that the current Controller app was also forked at some point and this might clean that up too, but I haven't looked into the software to see if that's the case yet).

To start, it seems to allow for the multi-site coordinated tools like MD-WAN to work with self-hosted OS installation, and they added Innerspace and Identity (which I suppose is necessary since I think that's how the login works) as "launch" apps. Presumably they'll roll more out in the future - ideally you could fully self-host stuff like Protect.