zrok VS headscale-ui

zrok - Aims for effortless sharing both publicly and privately. Supports multiple types of resources, including HTTP endpoints and files. Built on OpenZiti (see overlay section below). Apache 2 License. Written in Go.

I'm the lead developer on an open source product called zrok (https://github.com/openziti/zrok). zrok is a peer-to-peer sharing tool for network and file-based resources, similar to tools like ngrok.

fwiw, its back up. stars for zrok and ziti (i.e., the parent repo) are super appreciated!

Tailscale makes outbound connections so it circumvents the need for IPv6 with things like CGNAT.

OP, why not use an open source equivalent to Tailscale Funnel? For example, I work on the OpenZiti project and we created zrok.io which is fully open source alternative - https://github.com/openziti/zrok.

Here's a Dockerfile from the zrok repo you might find helpful: https://github.com/openziti/zrok/blob/main/docker/images/zrok/Dockerfile

I've started with a RPi 1 Model B rev 2 (armv61) running dietpi, which should be fine for Pihole but I'm also thinking of using it to run software to control remote access to my server, which could be Tailscale or Wireguard but zrok looks interesting. Unfortunately that doesn't have a armv61 version, only armv7 Releases · openziti/zrok (github.com) so I couldn't run it on this RPi.

I work on the open source OpenZiti project. We recently released zrok (https://zrok.io/), we have Local Debugging Interface in the backlog - https://github.com/openziti/zrok/issues/73.

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.