Headscale on a Mac
Self-hosted Tailscale control server (open-source) · VPN
Headscale is an open-source reimplementation of the Tailscale coordination server; run your own control plane so the normal Tailscale clients form a mesh with no dependency on Tailscale's cloud. Install with Homebrew (headscale); configure /opt/homebrew/etc/headscale, serve the API on :8080, register nodes with pre-auth keys, and point clients at it with tailscale up --login-server. Add headscale-ui for a web console.
Run Headscale with FrontierStack
Install or connect Headscale; then check its status, ports and certificate from FrontierStack. The same screen links to firewall checks, Malware Audit and backups where they apply.
Run it from your Mac.
FrontierStack installs, monitors and secures services on this Mac and on linked servers.
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