Tailscale’d Into Homelabbing
Homelabbing Series #1Tailscale’d Into HomelabbingWritten at 2026-03-26Discussions: (lobsters)Having my own homelab was something I wanted to try for a long time. However, I just couldn’t get started. Mostly because I kept overthinking it. How will I handle dynamic IPs? Do I need something like a local DNS on my router for that? Even if I solve things inside the home, how am I supposed to access it remotely? Do I need port forwarding at the NAT layer? And what about TLS certificates, how do I even manage those without using a public certificate authority?Of course, I know there are answers to all of these questions. And each one, on its own, is probably manageable. But I was discouraged by the possibility of Lingchi, small things slowly adding up until the maintenance burden is no…
