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Nope. I'm trying to move further away from US proprietary tech, not towards it. I'm currently using Tailscale, but I'm looking at moving to Netbird because it's open source and European.
Tailscale is Canadian
Ah, nice. I actually didn't realize that. They are also open source friendly https://tailscale.com/opensource I don't hate Tailscale, btw. They seem nice.
But, I like Netbird lets you self-host the server components. And, an important feature for me, is that Netbird doesn't require me to create an account with Big Tech to use the service. Right now I created a dummy account with GitHub just to use Tailscale, Netbird just allows me to create a username and password. E-Z P-Z. No extra hoops to jump through.
After switching to Netbird, I'll be able to get completely off of GitHub.
headscale, an open-source reimplementation of the tailscale control server, exists. I haven't tried it myself yet, but it claims to be an option for a fully selfhosted tailscale-compatible network.
It's quite fine, but not as feature complete as the proprietary control plane. My main issue is that it doesn't support tailnet lock yet, and it'll take a while before they'll implement grants instead of the old ACL system
Yeah, I'm aware of Headscale. I even think it's cool that Tailscale isn't trying to kill them: https://tailscale.com/opensource#encouraging-headscale
Whoa did not know this, this changes some plans over here.
Hopefully also part of Europe soon. Geologically, our land masses were very closely connected, but it was a few years ago.