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Home Assistant
:house_with_garden: Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first.
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InfluxDB
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awesome-selfhosted
A list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted on your own servers
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Tutanota makes encryption easy
Tuta is an email service with a strong focus on security and privacy that lets you encrypt emails, contacts and calendar entries on all your devices.
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Gitea
Git with a cup of tea! Painless self-hosted all-in-one software development service, including Git hosting, code review, team collaboration, package registry and CI/CD
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crowdsec
CrowdSec - the open-source and participative security solution offering crowdsourced protection against malicious IPs and access to the most advanced real-world CTI.
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Netmaker
Netmaker makes networks with WireGuard. Netmaker automates fast, secure, and distributed virtual networks.
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netbird
Connect your devices into a secure WireGuard®-based overlay network with SSO, MFA and granular access controls.
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frp
A fast reverse proxy to help you expose a local server behind a NAT or firewall to the internet.
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The Umbrel OS for home-lab, self-hosted tech solutions
For example, the home networking, personal VPN, we may use Tailscale. https://tailscale.com/ which is also listed on the Umbrel App Store.
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How I made my Home Server accessible outside my home
Here then comes VPN (Virtual Private Network) which is basically establishes a protected network connection when using public networks. I already have relevant experiences with this one as some of my previous projects involves private repositories that can only be accessed by connecting into the client's VPN. There are many solutions for this specific use case like WireGuard, but in this particular blog, I chose Tailscale.
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Optimizing My Dev Workflow in 2025
I had 2 old laptops sitting around, both 10 years old. I turned both into a home server. Installed Ubuntu Server, set up Docker, and now I run all my containers remotely. With Tailscale, I can securely connect to it like it's on the same network. This way, my MacBook doesn't have to run MongoDB, Redis, or RabbitMQ anymore. That alone freed up a lot of memory. I can even run other services like HomeAssistant, MailHog, Immich, etc.
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Again self-hosting! on k3s
Then I wanted to add Tailscle which besides being a "best in class VPN" for the homelabbers, allows you to add k8s services directly into your tailnet. What does it mean? The Tailscale operator allows you to access your k8s applications only when you are logged into your private network (tailnet), with the usage of your domain for ended with ts.net. You can configure it in two ways on the resource side, with ingress or with service annotation.
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An open source, self-hosted implementation of the Tailscale control server
here's the GitHub issue tracking the problem:
https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/issues/3363
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Porting Tailscale to Plan 9
We actually have that nowadays... the config file support to tailscaled, as Irbe mentioned on the bug Jan 2024: https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/issues/1412#issuecomm...
- Tailscale Enterprise Plan 9 Support
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Ask HN: What is the most secure way of baby monitoring?
I dunno if the CIA would trust them but I like Amcrest cameras
https://amcrest.com/
because they have a wide range of different price points and capabilities. Use these with software like
https://zoneminder.com/
which you could run on a cheap Linux box. For secure access use
https://tailscale.com/
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DiceDB
Vertical scaling this language also gets into painful territory quite often, I’ve had to workaround this problem before but never with a thing that felt like this: https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/blob/main/syncs/shard...
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ZeroTier – home VPN without a public IP address
Hmm, yes, I think you’re right. Tailscale does handle the connection here, not Wireguard.
I’ve digged into it a bit and I believe it first connects over a relay, then the devices try to find a more optimal route. So for LAN, they would exchange their local IPs and try to connect over those. If they are indeed on the same LAN, they connect directly: https://tailscale.com/kb/1257/connection-types
This is not without issues, however: https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/issues/7206
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tailscale/tailscale is an open source project licensed under BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of tailscale is Go.
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WIP/TODO: Looks promising. Will definitely check this one out! ;3