Tailscale Magic
Alex Kretzschmar, Head of Developer Relations at Tailscale joins to talk all about self-hosting, Unraid and Tailscale
In this exciting new episode of the Uncast Show, we welcome Alex Kretzschmar aka @ktzsystems, Head of Developer Relations at Tailscale and co-host of the Self-hosted podcast to talk about the magic that is Tailscale.
They discussed using Tailscale on Unraid and announced an exciting new partnership and integration between the two products.
Later, they delve into other technical topics like NAT traversal, remote access, ts.net certs, Tailscale Serve vs. Funnel, and much, much more.
Lastly, the conversation wouldn't be complete without delving into self-hosting best practices, discussing the advantages of containerization over virtual machines, and discussing emerging trends in the self-hosting space while finding a balance between self-hosted and commercial products.
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Episode Chapters:
- 1:15: Intros
- 02:15: When Ed first started using Tailscale at C-Base
- 03:34 New Tailscale on Unraid videos
- 04:25 Exciting partnership announcement between Tailscale and Unraid
- 05:00 What is Tailscale and how does it work?
- 12:50 Split DNS Magic with Tailscale
- 16:13 - Tailscale + Unraid = Exciting new functionality
- 18:00 ts.net certificates and MagicDNS will make reverse proxies, domains and API keys largely unnecessary for Unraid users
- 23:55 Tailscale Serve vs Tailscale Funnel
- 27:45 Sharing Tailnet Access out to other people: How Jupiter Broadcasting and the Self-Hosted podcast use this feature
- 34:20 Tailscale + travel router = a great travel hack for RVers, Roadtrippers, Cruisers or regular travel
- 40:00 Subnet routing in Tailscale
- 42:15: Tailscale is Hiring! Contact Alex.ktz.me to get in touch
- 43:30 Essential steps for secure self-hosting
- 46:34 Setting up Unraid in a Datacenter
- 50:00 Beginner self-hosting services to start with
- 55:45 Benefits and downsides to Docker containerization
- 1:01:10 Underrated self-hosted services and the most challenging self-hosted services to run
- 1:05:03 Emerging trends in self-hosting
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