addon-tailscale VS pam

I did file an issue asking them to make that flag, along with the --advertise-exit-node flag which is also hard-coded, optional.

I appreciate that Tailscale runs the DNS server so it's one less thing for me to manage. Similarly, the built-in LE is just icing on the cake as it's one less thing to think about. Once https://github.com/hassio-addons/addon-tailscale/pull/89 is merged, running Home Assistant on a VPN with a LE certificate, would be such a quick setup for anyone.

Indeed, you can do all that yourself as you point out. Just last night I manually created a public domain to point to a ZeroTier address and ran the Lets Encrypt addon in Home Assistant to generate a certificate via the DNS challenge. Didn't take long, but there were many steps involved (creating a Google Cloud service account and configuring everything).

There is a community-supported HomeAssistant addon which does: https://github.com/hassio-addons/addon-tailscale

> I know it says it's linux-only right now, but is that client side or server only? Can my Windows users TailSSH into linux boxes?

Linux-only on the server right. macOS support is kinda there (in git) but not entirely done and not included in the GUI builds. Windows server support is tracked in https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/issues/4697.

You can use any SSH client from any OS.

> Would be cool if somehow it could wedge into sudo auth so you could login as a a user and sudo without password if allowed by ACLs

Some of the start of that is in https://github.com/tailscale/pam

> One thing that has prevented me from trying Tailscale, despite the great word on the street, is I can't figure out pricing, despite contacting sales. I'd like to run it on ~120 dev+stg+prod VMs, with 10 people (devs, testers, ops). I'd like every box to talk over tailscale directly, as an overlay network, but servers I hope aren't users, that'd get expensive fast. But I need more devices than 10/user. I presume "custom" would help with that but I got no reply from sales. We are probably too small fry. Now that I'm typing this, I realize I guess we could just buy ~15-20 users despite needing only 10.

You only pay for unique humans, not tagged role account devices. I wonder if your email got eaten as spam or something. Email me (username at tailscale) and copy sales@ and I'll make sure somebody replies. But I don't think you need a custom plan.

> I think I've resolved myself to setting up Nebula for the server overlay network, and using Tailscale for physical users, with a traditional firewall bridging them.

Hey, if you've got something that works, stick with it. :)