Love seeing more self-hosted alternatives mature. Having control over your own infrastructure is worth the extra setup for a lot of people.
Fun fact none of you probably care about: I finally set this up last weekend.
I really like it so far for keeping my phone sync’d up with my self hosted services. In the past I needed to flip between public and internal address if I wanted to bypass routing traffic up to my vps while laying in a bed 20ft from my server. Now, tail/headscale handles that for me.
Glorious.
So the main parts that you need aside from Wireguard support in your OS, is the Tailscale client and the Headscale hosted server?
Is the client fully FOSS? Or are there still any parts of this typical deployment that could be rug-pulled if the company gets enshittified?
Great question! You use the Tailscale clients which are fully open source. Headscale is compatible with them, and if TS gets sketchy (which, very well may happen), those clients would need a fork.
Tailscale’s network is with paying for it you need enterprise features and they do have a free tier. I’m not going to lock myself in there though and prefer a full FOSS option.