Some discussion on bsky of the usefulness of Tailscale, and I’ll just note here how very handy it is for running a personal homelab that includes cloud instances. As well as just having lab connectivity from a laptop or phone on the go!
Services I run over Tailscale, just for myself, include:
- An RSS feed reader
- A personal git forge
- An IRC bouncer
- A (poorly maintained) wiki
- JupyterLab
- Open WebUI for playing with local LLMs on a GPU workstation
- SSH to a powerful workstation, hosted at home but without complex configs
And probably a few things I’ve forgotten! It’s really just very neat. Sure I could do it all with manual Wireguard configs. But Tailscale just makes the underlying primitive much more ergonomic.