Uploaded August 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Here’s why I stopped exposing my home lab to the Internet—and what I use instead. In this video I walk through four secure, modern remote-access options that let you reach Proxmox, pfSense, Portainer, Gitea, Grafana, Home Assistant, and more without opening ports or playing NAT roulette: Twingate, Tailscale (WireGuard mesh), vanilla WireGuard, and Cloudflare Tunnel.

Written blog post on this topic: virtualizationhowto.com/2025/07/stop-exposing-your-home-lab-do-this-instead

WG-Easy post: virtualizationhowto.com/2023/07/wg-easy-wireguard-config-generator-vpn-server-in-docker

GEEKOM A5 (2025 edition) Great for Proxmox! geni.us/geekoma52025-3

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Introduction to exposing your home lab to the Internet! 0:00
Video sponsor message - 1:00
Twingate - 1:45
Looking at the Twingate Docker Compose code - 2:41
Tailscale - 5:20
Getting started with Tailscale - 6:12
Wireguard - 7:20
WG-Easy for Wireguard - 8:00
Cloudflare tunnel - 8:24
Wrapping up secure access solutions to home lab - 9:18