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Tailscale Has a Free VPN — Connect All Your Devices Without Port Forwarding
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Tailscale Has a Free VPN — Connect All Your Devices Without Port Forwarding

via Dev.to DevOpsAlex Spinov4h ago

The Networking Problem You have a dev server at home. A Raspberry Pi running Home Assistant. A database on a VPS. A laptop at a coffee shop. Connecting them requires: port forwarding on your router, dynamic DNS, SSL certificates, firewall rules, and a VPN server you maintain. Or you could use Tailscale. Tailscale: WireGuard VPN Without the Pain Tailscale creates a mesh VPN between your devices using WireGuard. Every device gets a stable IP. No port forwarding. No firewall config. No central VPN server. Free Tier 100 devices (more than enough for personal use) 3 users on the network Unlimited bandwidth All platforms: macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS, Android Setup in 60 Seconds # Install (macOS) brew install tailscale tailscale up # Install (Linux) curl -fsSL https://tailscale.com/install.sh | sh tailscale up Log in with Google/GitHub. Both devices are now on the same network. Access your home server from anywhere in the world. Why Developers Love It 1. SSH Into Anything From Anywhere # Befor

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