> I feel like a lot of hype around Tailscale is because it vastly simplifies VPNs and their associated networking
Tailscale is based on Wire Guard, isn’t it? Now there’s a piece of software that truly made VPNs simple. I have a tunnel back into my LAN by way of an EC2 instance and all it took was two super simple config files on each machine.
Wireguard vastly simplifies the transport level, and attains high performance because it runs in the kernel.
Tailscale simplifies: authentication (including OIDC), authorization (via ACLs), DNS, NAT piercing. All of that is not obvious or easy for someone without deeper expertise.
Tailscale is based on Wire Guard, isn’t it? Now there’s a piece of software that truly made VPNs simple. I have a tunnel back into my LAN by way of an EC2 instance and all it took was two super simple config files on each machine.