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I wanted to move away from Tailscale but found Headscale a bit too convoluted for what I actually needed.

Ended up with a simple WireGuard setup using two VPSes: one as a VPN hub, the other acting as a reverse proxy back into my home lab.

It lets me expose services publicly without any inbound port forwarding on my home connection.

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[–] stratself@lemdro.id 2 points 1 month ago

The article makes sense. I think it's good to note that if the services you're running makes outbound requests (e.g. a Matrix homeserver), you could also tunnel outbound traffic to the same VPS as your inbound, so your residential IPs won't be leaked.

I've written about a similar setup, but for Tailscale nodes, here.