Comment by supermatt
2 months ago
The benefit of Tailscale is that it gives you “lots” of wireguard tunnels that work through NAT with near zero configuration and a central admin interface.
I use a personal plan and have multiple nodes. Desktop, laptop, tablet, phones, docker containers just for me and a couple of raspberry Pis on my families home networks.
Only once have I been “locked out” of a node and that was due to an expired key.
Sure, for just connecting one node to another with a known IP and accessible port it’s overkill, but for anything more complex it an awful lot of awesome for very little effort.
I second this, and want to highlight that only recently I learned about this similar project called netbird. I tried it, and it looks and works very similarly from the first glance. However, Magic DNS like feature did not work for me, for some reason. Maybe I need to do something, e.g. to enable it. More likely there are others, similar projects, but I’m not aware of them. By this point I stayed with Tailscale, but in any case, I see such project as of tremendous help for a self-hoster.