Post #2892829

Good morning! I have been happily using headscale (self hosted implementation tailscale's management service) for some time. An update was over-due but I was struggling to get things working in a satisfactory way. And I didn't like that my set-up wasn't portable (a lot of manual set-up is required). This led me to plan out what my ideal headscale project would look like: * Everything runs in docker * Containers for headscale, headscale-ui, and caddy * Re-implement user names in the MagicDNS (eg "mobile" is a user, resulting in "iain-t480s.mobile.example.com") that was removed in 0.23.0+ versions of headscale * Backup and restore procedures * Single file configuration Over a few cocktails while on holiday, I instructed OpenCode, with the Big Pickle model, to develop this project. The result is https://github.com/bigcalm/headscale-compose A simple project I can clone to any public facing server and hit the ground running with minimal config set-up. A few notes: * I have 20 years experience of linux server management, programming, devops, project management, and quality assurance. * While OpenCode created all of the file contents, I provided the requirements, code review, testing, feedback, and more testing. * This has been an iterative process to create a fully working project that I am happy with. Not a single prompt and ship whatever gets created. * I am not a tech bro. * Agentic development is a useful tool. But only a tool that I have been able to use due to my prior knowledge. The project isn't perfect, but it suits my needs. Maybe it can help somebody else too :) #headscale #tailscale #selfhosting #opencode #bigpickle