Am I the only one who uses it more for secure access than for VPN?

Hey folks,

I've been running Perimeter 81 for about 18 months now, and I've noticed my use-case has drifted pretty far from what I think is the classic "VPN replacement" pitch. Curious if anyone else is in the same boat.

For me, the killer feature isn't just tunneling all my traffic for privacy. It's the **secure, zero-trust access to specific resources**. I've got my homelab, a couple of cloud project VPCs, and our staging environment all segmented as "networks" in P81. My team and I can connect directly to *just* the app we need (like the Grafana or Prometheus server) without being on a full-blown VPN that exposes everything. The identity-aware part is huge for this.

My typical dashboard for access looks like this – I mostly live in the "Networks" and "Policies" tabs:
- **Main use:** Secure shell/rdp to specific servers (jump-host style).
- **Secondary:** Access to internal web apps (like our internal wiki or CI/CD).
- **Rarely:** The "Full VPN" mode for when I'm on super sketchy public Wi-Fi.

The VPN part feels almost secondary now. It's more about creating these secure, software-defined perimeters around individual services. It's like a more user-friendly, cloud-native version of setting up a bunch of individual SSH tunnels or a complex site-to-site VPN.

Anyone else using it primarily as a zero-trust / secure access service broker rather than a traditional VPN? Would love to hear how you've got your policies and network segments set up. Especially interested if you've integrated it with other IAM tools.