diff --git a/content/posts/tailscale-on-vmware-photon/index.md b/content/posts/tailscale-on-vmware-photon/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c42caf2 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/posts/tailscale-on-vmware-photon/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,58 @@ +--- +title: "Tailscale on VMware Photon OS" # Title of the blog post. +date: 2022-12-14T10:21:12-06:00 # Date of post creation. +# lastmod: 2022-12-14T10:21:12-06:00 # Date when last modified +description: "How to manually install Tailscale on VMware's Photon OS - or any other systemd-based platform without official Tailscale packages." # Description used for search engine. +featured: false # Sets if post is a featured post, making appear on the home page side bar. +draft: false # Sets whether to render this page. Draft of true will not be rendered. +toc: false # Controls if a table of contents should be generated for first-level links automatically. +usePageBundles: true +# menu: main +# featureImage: "file.png" # Sets featured image on blog post. +# featureImageAlt: 'Description of image' # Alternative text for featured image. +# featureImageCap: 'This is the featured image.' # Caption (optional). +# thumbnail: "thumbnail.png" # Sets thumbnail image appearing inside card on homepage. +# shareImage: "share.png" # Designate a separate image for social media sharing. +codeLineNumbers: false # Override global value for showing of line numbers within code block. +series: Tips # Projects, Scripts, vRA8, K8s on vSphere +tags: + - vmware + - linux + - wireguard + - networking + - security + - tailscale +comment: true # Disable comment if false. +--- +You might remember that I'm a [pretty big fan](/secure-networking-made-simple-with-tailscale/) of [Tailscale](https://tailscale.com), which makes it easy to connect your various devices together in a secure [tailnet](https://tailscale.com/kb/1136/tailnet/), or private network. Tailscale is super simple to set up on most platforms, but you'll need to [install it manually](https://tailscale.com/download/linux/static) if there isn't a prebuilt package for your system. + +Here's a condensed list of the [steps that I took to manually install Tailscale](/esxi-arm-on-quartz64/#installing-tailscale) on VMware's [Photon OS](https://github.com/vmware/photon), though the same (or similar) steps should also work on just about any other `systemd`-based system. + +1. Visit [https://pkgs.tailscale.com/stable/#static](https://pkgs.tailscale.com/stable/#static) to see the latest stable version for your system architecture, and copy the URL. For instance, I'll be using `https://pkgs.tailscale.com/stable/tailscale_1.34.1_arm64.tgz`. +2. Download and extract it to the system: +```shell +wget https://pkgs.tailscale.com/stable/tailscale_1.34.1_arm64.tgz +tar xvf tailscale_1.34.1_arm64.tgz +cd tailscale_1.34.1_arm64/ +``` +3. Install the binaries and service files: +```shell +sudo install -m 755 tailscale /usr/bin/ +sudo install -m 755 tailscaled /usr/sbin/ +sudo install -m 644 systemd/tailscaled_defaults /etc/defaults/tailscaled +sudo install -m 644 systemd/tailscaled.service /usr/lib/systemd/system/ +``` +4. Start the service: +```shell +sudo systemctl enable tailscaled +sudo systemctl start tailscaled +``` + +From that point, just [`sudo tailscale up`](https://tailscale.com/kb/1080/cli/#up) like normal. + +{{% notice info "Updating Tailscale" %}} +Since Tailscale was installed outside of any package manager, it won't get updated automatically. When new versions are released you'll need to update it manually. To do that: +1. Download and extract the new version. +2. Install the `tailscale` and `tailscaled` binaries as described above (no need to install the service files again). +3. Restart the service with `sudo systemctl restart tailscaled`. +{{% /notice %}}