TrueNAS Tailscale Companion - a new tool for using Tailscale on TrueNAS

Apps and Virtualization
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Hi all,

I’ve created a tool and docker image for adding TrueNAS to a Tailscale network.

https://github.com/dwurf/truenas-tailscale

It has some warts and limitiations, but unlike the official app, it:

  • automatically creates a node on your Tailnet for each App (if it has a web Portal) as well as the TrueNAS host itself.
  • configures TLS for each app using LetsEncrypt, so you don’t need to muck about with Nginx Proxy Manager or similar.

It’s early days so please try it out on a test system, report bugs, leave feedback or just tell me it’s a dumb idea (hopefully with a link to better alternatives!)

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That sounds slick. Not sure if it’ll work with my Headscale setup, but sounds like a neat way to integrate Tailscale much better than simply “there’s an app for that.”

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It won’t work with headscale right now, but I could add a parameter for setting an alternate login server if there’s interest

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Ah basically what the Tailscale addon from TrueCharts used to have hehe. (Technically still does but it’s Helm only now)

I’ve found that Tailscale with Host-Network (Userspace disable) on 24.10 hasn’t given me issues, aka all apps are available to their GUI using tailscaleIP:port.

But great addition nonetheless!