Part 2: https://roguesecurity.dev/blog/headscale-quadlet-part2

Part 2 is live! https://roguesecurity.dev/blog/headscale-quadlet-part2

No, it’s not you, the XML file isn’t including post content yet. I wasn’t sure how to do that, so figured I’d start with the simple thing of generating a list from the posts manifest for the time being. This would at least show you a link for when a new post is up, but you’re right there’s no content yet. When I have a bit more time I’ll research how can I dynamically add the entire post content.

Realized I didn’t answer the last question here on hardening. The answer is sure! I don’t have much planned for the blog, as I was just thinking I’d take “public notes” for my tinkerings as they came. I’ve done linux administration for a long time though so I’d be happy to put together a post on baselines and hardening

Great question. I tried to very briefly touch on it in the post. The bottom line is that its benefits are there mostly for rootless podman, which I’ve chosen not to implement here (yet). You can also configure it so that the socket is always active and that will then trigger the service associated with it, so that you save on resources when the service isn’t needed. However, I didn’t want to do that as it would likely increase page load time for readers.

Okay, rudimentary RSS feed added! It’s available in the navbar, and autodiscovery with your RSS aggregator should work from any page. Let me know if you have issues.

No, and that’s a deficiency. Thank you for asking. I totally had this on the roadmap but let it slip. I’ll work on finalizing that right now. Much appreciated!

The other poster here is correct, this is just an account of my journey through self hosting traefik, and ultimately headscale, without the hurdles along the way. I tried to include a few links to unclear terms along the way in the narrative, maybe those would help you figure things out. Unfortunately I can’t write for an audience of everyone, but hopefully you can still gain some value or learn some new things! Thank you for the feedback.

Ah yes, those examples were helpful and definitely helped inspire this. Glad you found some value in the ramblings. Post 2 will be up soon.

What nice feedback to read. I think you and I are aligned in what this will hopefully become. I really just wanted to start publicly sharing my hobby notes instead of holing them up in a local Joplin file or something, so that’s what I’m going to do. We may have similar hobbies though, which sounds like it’ll benefit you. Haha.

Excellent! Leave a note somewhere on how it measures up, I can always use more ideas!

Paperless-ngx! https://github.com/paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx

For anyone who reads this post and sees the mention of headscale – that was the overarching goal here but the blog post started getting long so I decided to chunk it up. As soon as I polish up the headscale writeup I’ve got drafted and get that posted, I’ll drop a link here just in case anyone is interested.

They place arbitrary limits on home users as well, which is a secondary reason to not use it compared to open source offerings. For instance:

• you are limited to 1Gbps line speed
• you are limited to one week of analytics, with no export option, so you can’t even ship them elsewhere
• there are also resource limits that prevent ram and CPU utilization

Discord isn’t free, you’re paying with your data. 😅