inlets-archived VS headscale

inlets - Used to be open source; now focused on a polished commercial offering. Designed to work well with Kubernetes.

This appears to be a very old version of the project before it was eventually forked to a repo that belonged to the inlets org on GitHub. That's why when Alex deleted the github.com/inlets/inlets-archived repo yesterday (a fork he controlled, where all the work since late 2018 was done), this repo under the-cc-dev now appears as the root repo of all the forks that exist right now, including my fork (https://github.com/mattwelke/inlets-archived).

Also if you're looking to self host something checkout inlets: https://docs.inlets.dev/#/

I've used Hamachi (vpn.net), that worked pretty well. You could also try Inlets (https://github.com/inlets/inlets).

Did you check https://github.com/inlets/inlets ? It’s an opensource alternative to cloudfared. Never use it myself but creator has a good track-record of developing nice oss solutions (were raspberry is usually first-class citizen)

I found some of them that are related to this topic, it might be useful for you too: * inlets * kt-connect * shuttle * ngrook

You could build something similar to HCM yourself. For instance you can use Inlets but you'd have to maintain the server yourself and pay for it. Plus, HCM is a breeze to set up and can be automated with the Azure CLI

headscale - Open source implementation of Tailscale control server. Can be used with Tailscale's official open source client. Written in Go.

Headscale

You can always use headscale. https://github.com/juanfont/headscale

One more thing, you can host Tailscale Control Server yourself if you want, which is a plus.

https://github.com/juanfont/headscale not to mention but Tailscale has a very good culture, I’m sure they would give notice if they pull the rug. There are also many alternatives such as Zerotier and more are showing up every day and open source options.

How about self-hosted Tailscale, known as Headscale

Would be nice if https://github.com/juanfont/headscale can be managed by the Tailscale operator.

You can run your own "head scale" control server and use their clients with it: https://github.com/juanfont/headscale

Requires a lot more setup, but it is an option. I've been self-hosting headscale for some time and it is quite stable.

There's an alternative to tailscale service called headscale https://github.com/juanfont/headscale (CLI only server compatible with official tailscale clients)