Headscale

Tailscale on Public Intrnet

Setup

Let’s build a few machines around the world and get our hands dirty with headscale / tailscale.

headscale

• amsterdam

tailscale

• stockholm
• miami
• singapore
• sydney

goal is to build a fullmesh network with all 4 tailscale clients

Headscale Server

• install OpenBSD 7.2 (needs golang 1.19) as described here

Generate Install Key

let’s generate a reusable install key for all 4 clients. It’s valid for 1 hour.

Running Headscale Server on OpenBSD

i like and widely use wireguard for my infrastructure. i’m also aware of it’s limitation and i know the tailscale project but never gave try. recently, i stumbled upon the headscale project, an opensource alternative to for the (closed) tailscale server. perfect, let’s give a try!

and, of course, i’m gooing to implement this with OpenBSD, what else ;)

Doku

• https://github.com/juanfont/headscale/blob/main/docs/running-headscale-openbsd.md
• https://zakaria.org/posts/headscale-setup.md

on the Server

compile and install server

this is working on OpenBSD 7.1, and also on the upcomming Version 7.2