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Re:SSH into private machines from anywhere using Cloudflare ... by punnerud on Thursday February 10, 2022 @06:32AM (#30284812)
Can be used for the same, but serve kind of a different usecase.

Tailscale scan your host for all open ports and open a WireGuard connection between the installed machines. Like every machine is on the same network, even if they are not. Way harder to have a good access control compared to plain SSH. And you don't need extra SW for just SSH.

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Re:SSH into private machines from anywhere using Cloudflare ... by matthewmacleod on Thursday February 10, 2022 @06:49AM (#30284921)
This article is specifically about using cloudflared to implement a tunnel without exposing anything to the public internet, which is definitionally extra software. Agreed however that Tailscale offers a much wider feature set—while also covering the basic "I want to access my machine from anywhere" use-case—at the cost of exposing an entire machine instead of a single port.
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