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Cake day: May 18th, 2026

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  • So my setup rigjt now:

    • vps with headscale
    • all devices connect to it
    • in my home lab a vm running a tailscale client and a reverse proxy with a Wildcard cert
    • all other services run as their own VMS and the proxy routes to them
    • i have a dmz (not yet public) running a proxy with tailscale again for a different domain
    • dmz runs a authentik vm which i use for access controll and user management
    • backup Server connects to tailscale as well and proxmox pushes zfs snapshots every day

    My long term goal is to move to pangolin as a reverse proxy on the vps and tailscale alternative and remove tailscale, as i find its very battery inefficient on Android (no subnet Router etc).

    So i just give people access to the VPN and send them an authentik invite and thats it. With pangolin i dont even have to give them a VPN access anymore, it can be done via authentik i think.

    A vps is 3-6€ and the tailscale standard is 10€ so its even cheaper, but a bit more setup to maintain. But it allows a ton of users :) so i guess this would be the smallest change with the highest impact

    Authentik is nice to have but a pain to set up as the oicd stuff can be tricky. Immich was super ez, nextcloud was OK, docspell was a pain and ocis does not work with authentik becsuse they use different architectures for sso. (Ocis and authentik are a bit dumb here)