Best of Tailscale — 2025

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    Avatar of hnHacker News·44w

    My Ultimate Self-hosting Setup

    A comprehensive guide to building a self-hosting setup using NixOS, ZFS, and Tailscale. The author shares their journey from tinkering with various approaches to settling on a stable configuration that prioritizes security, usability, and maintainability. Key components include NixOS for declarative configuration, ZFS for data protection, Tailscale for secure networking, and Authelia with LLDAP for authentication. The setup separates public and private services across multiple servers, with detailed solutions for common problems like DNS configuration, SSL certificates, and service proxying.

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    Avatar of tailscaleTailscale·46w

    Tailscale and RustDesk: Secure Remote Access to All Your Desktops

    RustDesk is an open-source remote desktop tool that can be enhanced with Tailscale for secure, direct connections between devices. By enabling direct IP access in RustDesk and using Tailscale's encrypted network, users can skip complex server setups and connect remotely using Tailnet IP addresses. This combination provides a free alternative to paid services like TeamViewer, offering features like file transfers, remote restarts, and screen sharing across Windows, Mac, Linux, and mobile platforms.

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    Tailscale’s windowed macOS UI is now in beta

    Tailscale has released a beta windowed macOS application that complements the existing menu bar interface. The new UI provides enhanced features including device search, better error handling, debugging tools, and improved feature discovery. Key features include a searchable device list, exit node management, troubleshooting information with visual error indicators, and a mini player mode for streamlined usage. The windowed app runs alongside the menu bar version and requires enabling through the admin console's feature previews section.

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    Making a Wake-on-LAN server using Tailscale, UpSnap, and Raspberry Pi

    Learn how to set up a remote Wake-on-LAN server using Tailscale's VPN network, UpSnap web application, and a Raspberry Pi. The guide covers the technical limitations of Wake-on-LAN over Layer 3 networks, provides step-by-step instructions for installing Tailscale and etherwake on a Raspberry Pi, and demonstrates how to deploy UpSnap as both a standalone application and Docker container. The solution enables waking sleeping devices from anywhere without opening network ports, using Tailscale's secure mesh network and optional MagicDNS for easy browser access.

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    Self-host a local AI stack and access it from anywhere

    A comprehensive guide to building a private AI infrastructure using local hardware. The setup involves configuring Proxmox virtualization with GPU passthrough, deploying NixOS VMs with Docker and NVIDIA drivers, and running Ollama with Open WebUI for local LLM access. Tailscale provides secure remote access to the AI stack from any device. The approach eliminates monthly subscription costs and keeps all data private while offering ChatGPT-like functionality through self-hosted models like Llama 4, Gemma 3, and DeepSeek.

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    Self-Host Weekly (4 July 2025)

    Weekly roundup covering self-hosting news including Tailscale's response to enshittification concerns following their $160M funding, launch of MediaManager as an alternative to *arr applications for media management, and introduction of Zen Notes, a minimal Markdown-based note-taking app designed for low resource usage and easy Docker deployment.

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    Avatar of communityCommunity Picks·52w

    EasyTier/EasyTier: A simple, decentralized mesh VPN with WireGuard support.

    EasyTier is a decentralized mesh VPN solution built with Rust that enables secure networking without centralized servers. It features WireGuard encryption, cross-platform support, NAT traversal, subnet proxying, and smart routing. The tool supports networking without public IPs using shared nodes, provides a web management interface, and can act as a WireGuard server for devices with WireGuard clients. Installation options include precompiled binaries, cargo, Docker, and platform-specific package managers.

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    Video: Lightweight server monitoring on your tailnet with Beszel

    Beszel offers a simple, lightweight server monitoring solution that can run on various platforms including Linux, macOS, and Windows. It easily integrates with Tailscale to provide basic metrics like temperature and disk usage. The post details the setup process of Beszel in a video, and hints at future content about integrating Tailscale client metrics with Prometheus.

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    Release v0.12 · perkeep/perkeep

    Perkeep 0.12 ships after a 5-year hiatus with major modernization: upgraded to Go 1.25, integrated Tailscale's tsnet library for private server deployment without public endpoints, migrated encryption from GPG to age, completed UI transition from GopherJS to native JavaScript, unified cloud storage backends (S3, B2, GCS), added container image distribution, expanded CI to macOS and Windows, and introduced comprehensive linting and testing improvements. The release includes contributions from 27 new contributors and removes deprecated features like AppEngine support and macOS FUSE.

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    The Tailscale node you mail to your parents

    A comprehensive guide to setting up remote Tailscale nodes using small devices like Raspberry Pi, Apple TV, or Android TV boxes that can be mailed to family members. The setup enables secure remote network access through exit nodes and subnet routers, allowing troubleshooting, remote support, and VPN capabilities. The guide covers hardware selection, configuration steps for each platform, testing procedures, and real-world use cases including caregiving support and bypassing restrictive firewalls.

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    Visualizing your Tailscale network traffic with TSFlow

    TSFlow is an open-source network visualization tool that transforms Tailscale network flow logs into interactive, real-time dashboards. Built by a Tailscale Customer Success Engineer, it addresses the challenge of understanding traffic patterns in identity-based networks through force-directed graphs, live traffic animations, and comprehensive analytics. The tool helps with ACL verification, performance troubleshooting, and security monitoring without requiring complex infrastructure setup.

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