No-IP

Connecting a remote server to my Kubernetes cluster and mounting an NFS share over tailscale

The homelab has not undergone any major change in recent months due to personal reasons, but now is a good time to get back on track. Today I want to share how I managed to connect a completely remote server to my Kubernetes cluster and how it’s able to directly write to my home NAS with the help of Tailscale. This might come in handy to those who are thinking of setting up their own VPS to connect to their K8s cluster, whether it be hosted at home or in the cloud, or maybe to those who just simply want to connect two mutually remote devices running on two different networks with a firewall....

Deluge

Tailscale for tunneling torrent traffic to a remote server behind a NAT

I was finally able to deploy a remote server in my parent’s house with the help of my sister. Guided her to install Debian, connect the LAN, and download a script I created to get tailscale up and running. Once the server was connected to my tailscale network, I was able to ssh from there and do all the remaining configuration. The server is planned for 24/7 uptime and since I only intended this to act as an exit node, I just sourced a cheapo HP T620 Thinclient with 2-cores, 8GB RAM, and 128GB SSD from some online store back home....