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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by eskuero@lemmy.fromshado.ws to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
  • A different device from your home server?
  • On the same home server as the services but directly on the host?
  • On the same home server as the services but inside some VM or container?

Do you configure it manually or do you use some helper/interface like WGEasy?

I have been personally using wgeasy but recently started locking down and hardening my containers and this node app running as root is kinda...

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[-] aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

You are, second point means running WG on say, a proxmox root, and using it to access the containers.

[-] just_another_person@lemmy.world -1 points 8 months ago

Uhhhh...that is...not how you do that. Especially if you're describing routing out from a container to an edge device and back into your host machine instead of using bridged network or another virtual router on the host.

Like if you absolutely had to have a segmented network between hosts a la datacenter/cloud, you'd still create a virtual fabric or SDLAN/WAN to connect them, and that's like going WAY out of your way.

Wireguard for this purpose makes even less sense.

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