I have written before about how I have used Tailscale, a magical tool to set up Wireguard tunnels to create an overlay network called Tailnets. I have also written about how I host all of my services to be publically accessible using Cloudflare Tunnels (fka Argo Tunnels). But I recently discovered that the ~20MiB binary of cloudflared can do a lot more than just run tunnels. Here is how I used most of the newly discovered features. ...
If you have read through the previous articles, I have a setup where applications are securely accessible to me from anywhere. That is all well and good until something breaks, and I have to fix it. No big deal when I am home, but how would I do that if what I am trying to fix is the one that helps me access it remotely? Enter Tailscale , a point-to-point mesh VPN topology private LAN overlay over the internet. Tailscale is a game-changer when it comes to VPN technologies. It accomplishes this using WireGuard , another up-and-coming technology for secure, simple tunneling. ...