Headscale is an easy-to-deploy and self-hosted implementation of the Tailscale control plane, which allows secure and private communication between devices over the internet. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the process of installing Headscale on NetBSD.
Before you begin, make sure you have the following prerequisites installed:
Follow the steps below to install Headscale on NetBSD:
To install the dependencies required by Headscale, run the following command:
$ sudo pkg_add git
Clone the Headscale repository using the following command:
$ git clone https://github.com/juanfont/headscale.git
Build Headscale by running the following command:
$ cd headscale && go build
After the build is complete, install Headscale using the following command:
$ sudo go install
Initialize Headscale by running the following command:
$ headscale init
This will create a new Headscale configuration file at ~/.headscale/config.yaml.
Start Headscale by running the following command:
$ headscale serve
Headscale will now be running, and you can access its web interface at http://localhost:8080.
In this tutorial, we showed you how to install Headscale on NetBSD. Headscale is now ready to use, and you can use it to securely connect your devices over the internet.
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