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    • ESXi Arm Edition on the Quartz64 SBC

      calendar Apr 23, 2022 · 16 min read · vmware linux chromeos homelab tailscale photon vpn  ·
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      ESXi Arm Edition on the Quartz64 SBC

      Up until this point, my homelab has consisted of just a single Intel NUC9 ESXi host running a bunch of VMs. It's served me well but lately I've been thinking that it would be good to have an additional host for some of my workloads. In particular, I'd like to have a Tailscale node on my home network which isn't hosted …


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    • Secure Networking Made Simple with Tailscale

      calendar Jan 1, 2022 · 16 min read · vpn wireguard homelab cloud linux networking security  ·
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      Secure Networking Made Simple with Tailscale

      Not all that long ago, I shared about a somewhat-complicated WireGuard VPN setup that I had started using to replace my previous OpenVPN solution. I raved about WireGuard's speed, security, and flexible (if complex) Cryptokey Routing, but adding and managing peers with WireGuard is a fairly manual (and tedious) …


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    • Cloud-hosted WireGuard VPN for remote homelab access

      calendar Oct 28, 2021 · 21 min read · linux gcp cloud wireguard vpn homelab tasker automation networking security  ·
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      Cloud-hosted WireGuard VPN for remote homelab access

      For a while now, I've been using an OpenVPN Access Server virtual appliance for remotely accessing my homelab. That's worked fine but it comes with a lot of overhead. It also requires maintaining an SSL certificate and forwarding three ports through my home router, in addition to managing a fairly complex software …


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    • Auto-connect to ProtonVPN on untrusted WiFi with Tasker [Update!]

      calendar Nov 24, 2020  · edit Mar 12, 2021 · 10 min read · android automation tasker vpn  ·
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      Auto-connect to ProtonVPN on untrusted WiFi with Tasker [Update!]

      [Update 2021-03-12] This solution recently stopped working for me. While looking for a fix, I found that OpenVPN had published some notes on controlling the official OpenVPN Connect app from Tasker. Jump to the Update below to learn how I adapted my setup with this new knowledge. I recently shared how I use Tasker and …


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    • Fixing WSL2 connectivity when connected to a VPN with wsl-vpnkit

      calendar Oct 7, 2020 · 2 min read · windows linux wsl vpn  ·
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      Fixing WSL2 connectivity when connected to a VPN with wsl-vpnkit

      I was pretty excited to get WSL2 and Docker working on my Windows 10 1909 laptop a few weeks ago, but I quickly encountered a problem: WSL2 had no network connectivity when connected to my work VPN. Well, that's not entirely true; Docker worked just fine, but nothing else could talk to anything outside of the WSL …


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