I love Tailscale, but it’s not really designed for public tunnels. You can do it, but you typically need to provision some kind of proxy with a static IP (most likely cloud based) to handle your public stuff.
Tailscale must be properly configured on your client machine to access machines/ports on their respective private Tailscale network(s), setup of which typically requires administrative intervention. Without bridging to a public network, services exposed to the Tailscale network are not accessible publicly.
Tailscale does offer user-mode clients so it can be used similarly to SSH by those allowed to connect (I don't know how difficult user-mode Tailscale is without admin setup on various operating systems).
I mean if I wanted to host a public blog on my private infrastructure, Tailscale alone isn’t going to cut it. I would have to make a instance on a cloud provider to allow public ingress, and I have to setup and configure Tailscale on it to allow it to punch a hole into my walled garden. If I just want plain VPN access to my instances from wherever, then that’s when Tailscale really shines.
A core offering of Cloudflare Tunnel is the ability to host web servers through tunnels. Tailscale requires you to run your own reverse proxy on a publicly-accessible node in order to accomplish this.
I love Tailscale, but it’s not really designed for public tunnels. You can do it, but you typically need to provision some kind of proxy with a static IP (most likely cloud based) to handle your public stuff.
what do you mean by public channels? if I was trying to ssh into my machines it works wonderfully for dns resolution.
Cloudflare tunnels expose ports publicly.
Tailscale must be properly configured on your client machine to access machines/ports on their respective private Tailscale network(s), setup of which typically requires administrative intervention. Without bridging to a public network, services exposed to the Tailscale network are not accessible publicly.
Tailscale does offer user-mode clients so it can be used similarly to SSH by those allowed to connect (I don't know how difficult user-mode Tailscale is without admin setup on various operating systems).
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I mean if I wanted to host a public blog on my private infrastructure, Tailscale alone isn’t going to cut it. I would have to make a instance on a cloud provider to allow public ingress, and I have to setup and configure Tailscale on it to allow it to punch a hole into my walled garden. If I just want plain VPN access to my instances from wherever, then that’s when Tailscale really shines.
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A core offering of Cloudflare Tunnel is the ability to host web servers through tunnels. Tailscale requires you to run your own reverse proxy on a publicly-accessible node in order to accomplish this.
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