| ▲ | theturtletalks 3 hours ago |
| Tailscale is truly a cheat code. I have a web app that I run locally to control terminals on my Mac. I access the website on my phone using the 100.xx IP address and can code on the go. No need for a Mac or iOS app. You can also use Tailscale serve to get a HTTPS url like Cloudflared but it's only visible to your tailnet. Be careful using Cloudflare tunnels because they are public and bots start poking around immediately. |
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| ▲ | 0x1ch 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Alternatively, Netbird has been a dream to use over the last half year or so. I think their server software has had some hiccups on new releases, but I stagger those updates anyways. All self hosted, similar concept to Tailscale, very good management UI baked into the self hosted product. |
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| ▲ | garettmd an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | Netbird's great. I've been using Pangolin (https://pangolin.net/) lately for my homelab. It's very similar in functionality to Netbird, but I like the UX of it better. | | |
| ▲ | 0x1ch 4 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Also a very good alternative. I went on a spree and tried out all of the self hostable alternatives and this was definitely a runner up to netbird. The self hosted tailscale is also good, just not as polished as these two projects are. |
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| ▲ | drcongo 6 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | I switched from Tailscale to Netbird purely because of Tailscale's bizarre pricing tiers - I wanted just the SSH features, with multiple users, but the paid tier up from free didn't include the SSH features. | | |
| ▲ | 0x1ch 2 minutes ago | parent [-] | | I think Tailscale would've fit my needs perfectly fine, but the management makes access control and grouping dead simple in netbird. It also generates a nice little map of your peers, their groups, and connected nodes etc. Quick visual on your topology. |
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| ▲ | SparkyMcUnicorn 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > You can also use Tailscale serve to get a HTTPS url like Cloudflared but it's only visible to your tailnet For public access, similar to these cloudflare tunnels, there's Tailscale Funnel. https://tailscale.com/docs/features/tailscale-funnel |
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| ▲ | nacs 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Tailscale funnel works well but you can only have 1 per Tailscale instance (1 per machine) at the https endpoint so if you want to have a few apps, the others will go on non-https, custom-port URLs. | | |
| ▲ | bakkoting 24 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | You can set up paths that route to different local ports. As long as your apps don't need to live at the root path you can have as many as you like. And you can still have something on the root path as long as it doesn't need the subpath. Here's `tailscale funnel status` on my machine: $ tailscale funnel status
# Funnel on:
# - https://my-machine.tailXXXX.ts.net
https://my-machine.tailXXXX.ts.net (Funnel on)
|-- / proxy http://localhost:3000
|-- /foo proxy http://localhost:3001
|-- /bar proxy http://localhost:3002
|-- /baz proxy http://localhost:4004
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| ▲ | MattCruikshank an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | That's why I keep using tsnet directly, where you can have as many virtual machines, doing sharing or funneling, as you want to. The CLI doesn't let you do as much as the go library does. | |
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| ▲ | dlopes7 16 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I use tailscale on my steam deck to play stardew valley with my son on my laptop, it truly is amazing |
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| ▲ | _user_account an hour ago | parent | prev [-] |
| just use wireguard; tailscale is just the SSO enterprise overlay with a pricing tab. |
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| ▲ | pocksuppet 2 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | Wireguard is great for a point-to-point or multipoint VPN set up by a competent network administrator between machines with static addresses. But that's the only thing it does. It does not handle authentication or mobility very well. | |
| ▲ | matthewmacleod 31 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | No, it’s not. It handles the keys, provisioning, DNS, NAT traversal, and a bunch of other stuff. WireGuard is a great technology - Tailscale is like a usability layer on top of it. | |
| ▲ | titularcomment 34 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | I think an important feature for homelabs is NAT traversal | |
| ▲ | herpdyderp an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | I pay Tailscale nothing, why switch? |
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