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Quote: "In the "before tailscale" times, if I needed to test against the production AWS resources or connect dBeaver for database maintenance, I would edit the
by unnouinceput 4y ago
Quote: "In the "before tailscale" times, if I needed to test against the production AWS resources or connect dBeaver for database maintenance, I would edit the security group to add my IP address, do my testing, edit the security group to remove myself. This is as error prone as it sounds. I quite often forgot to remove my IP address from the allowed addresses, a major potential security risk when you are travelling."
My takeaway from this is that the author was either lazy or lacked the knowledge to create an automation script that could've done that automatically (the add/remove) based on location. If that's the whole reason for this tailscale praise, kinda of takes away the tailscail actual usefulness and why it exists in first place.
- smackeyacky 4y agoAuthor here. Yep, I'm lazy and a cheapskate, so using the built-in AWS solution I thought was too expensive for something I only did occasionally. 99% of the time I'm hooked up to my test system rather than production (as it should be).