Homelab VPN

There are several problems with self-hosting at home by exposing the local network to the Internet. Among them, the public IPv4 address of the home network might change unexpectedly, requiring a Dynamic DNS configuration. Furthermore, exposing a home’s public IP address may be a privacy concern. This is why it is useful to configure a VPN between the local device and a cloud server with a static IPv4 address. https://youtu.be/sIH1RRdTjys WireGuard This is the most essential and simple VPN solution, and the following tutorial explains quite well how to set it up. https://youtu.be/bVKNSf1p1d0 Tailscale/Headscale Tailscale is a tool based on WireGuard that simplifies some aspects and takes care of more things for you, but it is not fully open source. Headscale is its self-hostable and fully opensource implementation. Open questions How do I expose services to the Web by hosting them on Bocia and routing them through a public server? When I connect through my laptop client, how do I avoid…