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My self-hosting infrastructure, fully automated

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Re: My self-hosting infrastructure, fully automated

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Post by simonw »

This is very cool!

Have you considered something like Tailscale so you can securely access it from outside your home? I've been thinking about spinning up my own home server that way, seeing as Tailscale makes it easy to securely access it from my phone when I'm out and about.

Re: My self-hosting infrastructure, fully automated

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Post by kinduff »

simonw wrote: post #2

This is very cool! Have you considered something like Tailscale so you can securely access it from outside your home? I've been thinking about spinning up my own home server that way, seeing as Tailscale makes it easy to securely access it from my phone when I'm out and about.

I use Tailscale to access a jumpbox I have in my home server, but it could also be installed in all the nodes to access them individually.

I really like the service, works like a charm. Sometimes I use one of my servers as an exit node when I'm out as a VPN.

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Post by omnicognate »

simonw wrote: post #2

This is very cool! Have you considered something like Tailscale so you can securely access it from outside your home? I've been thinking about spinning up my own home server that way, seeing as Tailscale makes it easy to securely access it from my phone when I'm out and about.

I haven't looked into Tailscale but I do that with plain Wireguard and it's awesome.

Re: My self-hosting infrastructure, fully automated

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Post by extinctpotato »

This is a very good example of how you can save yourself the mental hurdle of remembering how to configure something etc.

I can only suspect how much time, trial and error this must've taken. This is my main issue with IaC. The concept really lends itself to any kind of modern infra, however I'm really put off by the sheer amount of time it takes me to whip out a bunch of Ansible playbooks and helper scripts, and on top of that make sure that all of them are idempotent.

Maybe I'm doing something wrong and this should be easy?

Re: My self-hosting infrastructure, fully automated

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Post by zrail »

simonw wrote: post #2

This is very cool! Have you considered something like Tailscale so you can securely access it from outside your home? I've been thinking about spinning up my own home server that way, seeing as Tailscale makes it easy to securely access it from my phone when I'm out and about.

I'm using Tailscale on my home network. Right now my two most interesting use cases are 1) I have it installed on my Home Assistant VM so I can access it wherever I am without having to futz with internal vs external URLs, and 2) I have a few Raspberry Pi's scattered around the house running zwavejs2mqtt which doesn't have any authentication built in (i.e. anyone on my wifi could theoretically mess with my zwave network). I told it to listen on each Pi's Tailscale address and use ACLs to lock it down so just Home Assistant can talk to the websocket API.

Re: My self-hosting infrastructure, fully automated

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Post by 616c »

Pretty sweet. I have been called a devops person by others around me (and I am hesitant to proudly identify as one) because this homelab is more impressive and modular than a lot of stuff I have seen colleagues and I put together for professional stuff.

Well done. I was not aware of the Cloudflare solution. Is this something someone can use, _with_ their Cloudflare Access offering, for personal dev/lab envs without breaking the bank?

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