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Deploying Tailscale/Headscale for private mesh networking

Abstract

Tailscale makes secure networking easy, it really is like magic. If you've used wireguard before, you know it takes a bit to setup and some configuration if you need to do anything fancy.

About This Material

This is a Hands-on Tutorial from the GTN which is usable either for individual self-study, or as a teaching material in a classroom.

Questions this will address

  • What is Tailscale?
  • When is it useful?
  • Is it right for me?

Learning Objectives

  • Setup a tailnet across a few nodes

Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Keywords: Galaxy Server administration, networking, wireguard

Target audience: Galaxy Administrators

Resource type: e-learning

Version: 3

Status: Active

Prerequisites:

  • Ansible
  • Three or more VMs (they can be tiny, 1 CPU, <1GB RAM)

Learning objectives:

  • Setup a tailnet across a few nodes

Date modified: 2023-03-17

Date published: 2022-09-21

Authors: Helena Rasche

Contributors: Nate Coraor


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