I had the same thought, but then I discovered Headscale. It allows you to host the central control server of your tailnet yourself.
I'm now running the Headscale server for some time now and really can't complain!
https://github.com/juanfont/headscale
MrWonderland
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2026-09-12 14:35:50 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…5rwh
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