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Curious why you want to run Headscale? Is it purely to avoid the risks of the coordination server?

Yes, and because Tailscale requires me to use a third-party identity provider.

Got it. Makes sense. A big part of why we're building Bowtie. https://bowtie.works . We stay out of the critical path.

As of about a month ago, you can self-host your own OIDC identity provider; for example, Ory Hydra is open-source.

Thanks, I did read that blog post but adding yet another dependency to my stack just for authentication of a single user (me)? I don't know… Then I might as well just install Headscale.

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