wgsd VS headscale-ui

if your looking at setting up coredns aswell then i would highly suggest checking out wgsd https://github.com/jwhited/wgsd

https://github.com/jwhited/wgsd does NAT traversal with Wireguard, but you need to operate a CoreDNS server to do it.

More info on how it works: https://www.jordanwhited.com/posts/wireguard-endpoint-discov...

Another one which looks promising is wgsd, a dns like plugin to discover peer's endpoints that sit behind a NAT. For me this is part of the solution, however not a complete one, as my client devices are also on Android and Android TV.

that guide is literally someone promoting their CoreDNS plugin, so I'm confused as to what you mean: https://github.com/jwhited/wgsd

If they are behind a NAT that you can't do port-forwarding on then you may need to run some additional software like https://github.com/jwhited/wgsd so 10.10.0.2 and 10.10.0.3 know where to look for each other by asking 10.10.0.1

Our current implementation just has the nodes configured with PersistentKeepAlive by default, which works well enough for our small setup. In future iterations our plan is to incorporate another service. Our inclination is to use WGSD: https://github.com/jwhited/wgsd

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.