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robber May 30, 2025

Any experience with Pangolin?

Any experience with Pangolin? - Lemmy

Hi fellow homelabbers! I hope your day / night is going great. Just stubled across this self-hosted cloudflare tunnel alternernative called Pangolin [https://github.com/fosrl/pangolin]. - Does anyone use it for exposing their homelab? It looks awesome, but I’ve never heard of it before. - Should I be reluctant since it’s developed by a US-based company? I mean security-wise. (I’ll remove this question if it’s too political.) - Does anyone know of alternatives pieces or stacks or software that achieve the same without relying on cloudflare? Your insights are highly appreciated!

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nimmo May 30, 2025

I've seen lots of talk about headscale, an open source tailscale which allows you to create your own tailnet and I'm sure I've seen people talking about using tailscale as a reverse proxy tool, but it's not something I've explored in detail.

Pangolin is somewhat higher on my list of things to explore than headscale though.

If you're looking for a reverse proxy caddy and Traefik are also widely used.

With all of these solutions though you're going to need to have some online provider somewhere handling DNS for you so that you can have your domains be pointed to your IP address.

Headscale

An open source, self-hosted implementation of the Tailscale control server.

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Nick

I love headscale. I use it for subnet routing. I have a server in the cloud with NGINX for reverse proxy and the a subnet router at home that just routes internal stuff so I just use the local IP for the backend service and it just works.