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Hi fellow homelabbers! I hope your day / night is going great.

Just stubled across this self-hosted cloudflare tunnel alternernative called Pangolin.

  • Does anyone use it for exposing their homelab? It looks awesome, but I've never heard of it before.

  • Should I be reluctant since it's developed by a US-based company? I mean security-wise. (I'll remove this question if it's too political.)

  • Does anyone know of alternatives pieces or stacks or software that achieve the same without relying on cloudflare?

Your insights are highly appreciated!

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[–] Blaster_M@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I have yet to get headscale to work with my system. No turnkey setup, instructions that lack clarity, and in the end... idk how it's supposed to do the thing.

[–] lepinkainen@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Then you can just go with Tailscale, it’s 100% turnkey and just works. Even better when combined with NextDNS

[–] YodaDaCoda@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I did manage to get it to work, but I recall it took me a while. I have several devices connected to it now though. I'm keenly looking forward to the autogroup:self ACL support so I can set up sensible ACLs and share my net with some mates - I only have my own devices on it right now.

Anything I can share that might help your understanding?

[–] Blaster_M@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Every system I can run headscale on I need to do it via an nginx reverse proxy

[–] YodaDaCoda@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago

Yes you need a way to expose it over https. A reverse proxy is easiest. I use Caddy.