Re:Tailscale free for open source projects
by probotect0r on Friday September 17, 2021 @11:16PM
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Thanks for the suggestion. I have seen subspace, but haven't had a chance to explore it deeply. I don't mind deploying and managing my own setup, but since my team is small, I want to limit how much time I have to spend on this in the long run. I have definitely considered running my own setup of barebones WireGuard, but haven't come across an elegant user management solution.
tldr make sure the bastion box can reach the stuff you need it to reach as far as subnets and security groups go, ensure kernel will fwd traffic from WireGuard clients, run WireGuard daemon, and expose it to the outside world via eip. I’m oversimplifying (dns, sec groups, routing client traffic to other subnets) - but hopefully that explains the gist.
I have a small Python script that takes a XLSX file as input and populates a dir with config files and QR code images for each user.
Or you can check out some of the OSS ways to do self-service vpn mgmt with a web UI that authenticates against Google auth. I haven’t deployed this yet but it looks cool https://github.com/subspacecloud/subspace
If you know this sort of tech well it is not hard to deploy and manage yourself. But tailscale has a really killer clientside experience and “just works” so honestly it might be worth the $$$