Comment by mnahkies
10 hours ago
I started with plain wireguard then migrated to tailscale, for my use case:
- I was able to get my partner onto the tailnet by telling her to install an app and login. She doesn't know or care what wireguard is, but she can now access some of my self hosted services on her phone.
- I'm able to easily dynamically register machines to the tailnet, such as CI jobs
- I'm able to self host a DNS resolver and have it just work for devices connected to the tailnet
I'm sure I could achieve these goals with plain wireguard, but I feel like I was able to outsource significant complexity to tailscale instead.
I followed a similar trajectory for similar reasons. I was playing with wireguard around 2020 when I learned of Tailscale and since then haven't looked back.
Just the other day I was able to set my sister up with access to my Plex server and the ability to piggyback on my UK internet connection to stream BBC/Channel 4 content from Australia. It took all of 5 minutes to get it working.