What do you guys use / recommend to set up your own VPN to access your LAN services remotely?
People seem to like and recommend Tailscale. I have not gotten to setting it up. My setup involves reverse proxy with treafik and my services in docker. Any suggestions on how what I need to do would be welcome.
This is the exact script I use to install tailscale on my VPN server
Installing Tailscale
curl -fsSL https://tailscale.com/install.sh | sh
Enable IP forwarding
echo 'net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1' | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.conf echo 'net.ipv6.conf.all.forwarding = 1' | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.conf sudo sysctl -p /etc/sysctl.conf
Advertise subenets and exit node
tailscale up --advertise-exit-node --advertise-routes=192.168.0.0/24,192.168.2.0/28,192.168.5.0/24,192.168.10.0/24
Thank you for message, i appreciate the effort.
Where I struggle is the part where i need to expose my subnet within Tailscale. I don’t have any machineip:port delegated to the services anymore.
I got a domain name through CF, and have traefik generate unique url links as *service.mydomain.com that routes it to the specific service running in docker on my localmachine. It also takes care of certificates. Calling that service url only works within the local network.
In my docker compose set up, I removed all the ports as I dont access the services via ip:port. I hope this makes sense to you.
So it seems I need to configure Tailscale in such a way I can tunnel to my home network and then make the service.mydomain.com call. And that is where it got too complicated for me right now.
I also fail to understand if I need to run Tailscale native or in (the same) docker env.
I’ve been using it for maybe a year now and it’s been rock solid. Highly recommended.
I’ve never had issues with my plain old OpenVPN setup
tailscale 100 times over
i have pivpn (wireguard+pihole) running on a pi zero and it is rock solid
My MikroTik has built in WireGuard functionality so it was an easy pick 😁
I use this too. It is excellent
I installed OpenWrt on my home router and set up wireguard on it. If you have dinamic IP address assigned by your ISP, like me, you also have to setup a dynamic dns updater on the router. I use duckdns.org. Then you have to open the port for wireguard on the router. Here’s a video guide on how to do it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo2AsW4BMOo
While I’ve never used it personally I’ve heard good things about cloudflare tunnel.
Not many people here use openmediavault it seems, but Its wireguard plugin is super nice.
I use this one-liner to set up an IPsec VPN server:
wget https://get.vpnsetup.net -O vpn.sh && sudo sh vpn.sh
Security 101: Never blindly run shell scripts from a random comment on the internet.
Tbf, a lot of applications and tools provide installation scripts in lieu of more elaborate manual setup. Doesn’t make it safer, but if you want to install something, you have to trust the source with shell access at some point anyway.