Recommendations for SOCKS5 proxy services as cloud gateway

Hi James, thanks for the quick response. Would consider a VPN, our concern would be scaling it to multiple devices. Perhaps you could provide some insight on how you handle so many VPN connections to IOT devices through a single host?

The thought of the proxy was a lightweight middleman for directing all outbound traffic from the Balena Device through a single point. I had seen Network Setup on balenaOS - Balena Documentation and had the belief that this was going to be the only way to manage all traffic from a Device.

This thread specifically didn’t give me much hope for the VPN approach: