website VS headscale-ui

As engineers, we all know the feeling of encountering a stubborn bug that defies easy resolution. The Gitpod team recently faced such a challenge when we discovered a bug with our Gitpod Docs Search functionality during a comprehensive documentation restructure. The search feature was not updating correctly, returning outdated data even after we manually ran an Algolia indexing query to update the production data with newly deployed changes. This left us scratching our heads, wondering how to resolve the issue and ensure that our users could access the most up-to-date information quickly and easily.

This is a small doc from a PR I submitted to Gitpod's how-to guides but the prefer to have only a few databases in this guide (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, MongoDB). No problem, I'll post this doc here.

Here is their repository on GitHub: https://github.com/gitpod-io/website

However, I'm encountering significant challenges when it comes to setting up a seemingly simple static website for the UI.

I've been running wireguard on my own for a few years. I like it, but wish there was a better GUI.

I tried installing headscale. I didn't feel like I got the immediate rush of "cool, I have the baseline thing working" without reading the docs. And, I needed to use this for a GUI: https://github.com/gurucomputing/headscale-ui. I love the command line and am happy to use that, but I'm unsure if there is a benefit to headscale over wireguard if I'm doing that.

I just read this article on tailscale vs. openziti and it mentioned netmaker (a YC company). I tried installing it, but out of the box, "DNS" did not seem to work correctly.

Is anyone here a power user that also benefits from a full fledged GUI? Is tailscale the only option there? I prefer to self-host whenever I can, despite loving tailscale and the people behind it.

There's also gurucomputing/headscale-ui which I've used personally. It's been adequate, though the lack of native arm64 builds until recently has put me off a bit.

How does this compare to headscale-ui?

Headscale's ui is fine (well ish, I'd like headscale to write an API for ACLs). I might be biased though because I wrote it.

Have you tried https://github.com/gurucomputing/headscale-ui ?

My Dev container is here: https://github.com/gurucomputing/headscale-ui/blob/master/documentation/development.md

I threw my hat into the headscale crowd instead (to the point of writing a UI for it) but I'll have to give netmaker another spin soon.