I actually think Tailscale may be an even bigger deal here than sysadmin help from Claude Code at al.
The biggest reason I had not to run a home server was security: I'm worried that I might fall behind on updates and end up compromised.
Tailscale dramatically reduces this risk, because I can so easily configure it so my own devices can talk to my home server from anywhere in the world without the risk of exposing any ports on it directly to the internet.
Being able to hit my home server directly from my iPhone via a tailnet no matter where in the world my iPhone might be is really cool.
Basically, I feel that tailscale does not make it very easy to set up services this way, and the only method I have figured out has a bit too many steps for my liking, basically:
- to expose some port to the tailnet, there needs to be a `tailscale serve` command to expose its ports
- in order for this command to run on startup and such, it needs to be made into a script that is run as a SystemD service
- if you want to do this with N services, then you need to repeat these steps N times
Is this how you do it? is there a better way?