event-driven wireguard connection to home-lab
The past 2 weeks I spent some time configuring tailscale: think of it as your own personal, invisible, and very secure "home-lab" on the internet where only your trusted devices can connect and share information.
But, since it uses wireguard under the hood, and I had already set it up on my VPS - see post1 and post2 - I thought! “Why can't I just do this myself, without relying on a third-party service?”
So, first of all I did a quick test, by sending some text to a “termbin” service (it's like a pastebin but for shells) I run on my VPS. I set it to listen only on the wireguard interface, then activate the wireguard tunnel on my desktop PC at home, opened a shell and sent the following:
echo “termbin test” | nc 172.16.100.1 9999
It worked like a charm, so I immediately started thinking about the whole home-lab thing. And here I am, connected and happy.
