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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 addres
by theturtletalks 8d 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.
- SparkyMcUnicorn 8d ago> 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 https://tailscale.com/docs/features/tailscale-funnel
- nacs 8d agoTailscale 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.
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- MattCruikshank 8d agoThat'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.
- bakkoting 8d agoYou 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
- Natfan 6d agoor just use a tailscale sidecar[0] in a docker container and give it any hostname you want [0]: https://tailscale.com/blog/docker-tailscale-guide https://tailscale.com/blog/docker-tailscale-guide
- justinc8687 7d agoI have multiple funnels running at once. I just put a tailscale container into my compose stack and that way each compose stack gets its own tailscale instance and thus its own funnel. Happy to share the setup if at all interested.
- havnagiggle 7d agoReverse proxy to additional endpoints.
- 0x1ch 8d agoAlternatively, 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.
- garettmd 8d agoNetbird's great. I've been using Pangolin (https://pangolin.net/ https://pangolin.net/) lately for my homelab. It's very similar in functionality to Netbird, but I like the UX of it better.
- 0x1ch 8d agoAlso 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.
- nickspacek 7d agoSwitched from Pangolin to Netbird recently and enjoy Netbird more!
- BOOSTERHIDROGEN 7d agoWhich features do you specifically benefit from?
- drcongo 8d agoI 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 8d agoI 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.
- _user_account 8d agojust use wireguard; tailscale is just the SSO enterprise overlay with a pricing tab.
- herpdyderp 8d agoI pay Tailscale nothing, why switch?
- titularcomment 8d agoI think an important feature for homelabs is NAT traversal
- matthewmacleod 8d agoNo, 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.
- pocksuppet 8d agoWireguard 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.
- jallmann 7d agogit : github :: wireguard : tailscale
- dlopes7 8d agoI use tailscale on my steam deck to play stardew valley with my son on my laptop, it truly is amazing
- girvo 8d agoI love TailScale but was getting crazy battery drain on my iPhone with it installed and setup. Still use it, just not from my phone now
- tenuousemphasis 7d agoStrange, battery use is negligible on Android, particularly when the tunnel is not in active use.
- eloisius 7d agoI have the same experience and I once found a GitHub issue about it. I don’t think it sounded like they planned to fix it anytime soon. I just added the Tailscale toggle button to my phone’s quick control panel and turn it on whenever I want to check all my syncthing nodes or something. I keep meaning to see if I can script up something with Shortcuts to make it turn back off automatically.
- devilbunny 7d agoWere you using an exit node? Because that really does hammer the battery, but vanilla TS without a bunch of traffic doesn't seem to do much to mine. The only always-on TS service on my phone is Immich for photo backup, and I don't take enough photos for that to matter much.
- aborsy 7d agoYou should compare battery consumption of TS exit node with something like WG app which low
- devilbunny 7d agoWG gonna punch through NAT for me? My endpoint is a pretty stable (though technically dynamic) IPv4 on one end, but the other might be a cell phone with CGNAT, some random WiFi, blah blah etc. TS does that. If you don't want to use it, cool. Don't. I'm willing to make the tradeoffs to use TS for now. That could change in the future.
- prtmnth 7d agoUsing Tailscale in exactly the same way. It has been such a blessing!
- timwis 7d agoFyi you can point a domain/subdomain (eg lan.mysite.com) at that 100.x IP and it will only work for those on your tailnet.
- peter_retief 7d agoI use both (also Headscale)