Re:How our free plan stays free
by xanaxagoras on Wednesday March 16, 2022 @07:03PM
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That's true, the ACLs are pretty huge. I've heard about Tailscale almost exclusively in the context of /r/selfhosted, and this post is about the free plan which guided my response. It's not hard to see why this would be useful at my job. Honestly I wish they'd pay for it, OpenVPN is such a pain for my users.
Tailscale is also deceptively powerful, and that's why people love it. In particular: getting WireGuard deployed across a whole team with a single source of authentication truth and role-based default-deny ACLs is not, in fact, very easy to do. The massively more common pattern in tech companies with access VPNs is something like OpenVPN, with separately-managed credential stores (that get desynced and lock people out --- or accidentally retain access for separated team members) and default-allow network policy that gives anyone with access to the VPN direct access to Redis, databases, staging instances, and stuff like that.
I don't just like Tailscale. I fucking hate Tailscale for how simple they've made one of the larger problems in corpsec. It's maddening.