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There's nothing I'd like to do more than let the US internet-monopolizing company handle all my vpn traffic /s But without being snarky, for homelabbing purposes just use wireguard directly, it's fun and not that hard to handle. Automate peer configurations using Ansible or some other automation tool if it gets hard to manage manually.
I tried, but I don’t understand how to bypass a cgnat. With Tailscale it just works. Also, I tried Netbird, it’s very similar, and it works well too. I’d love to simplify this, but I have no knowledge at the moment. Would love someone pointing into the right direction.
CGNAT and changing IPs make this harder. What I'd consider in this scenario is renting a small vps at a local provider (a tiny/cheap machine is enough). Then use this one as a hop to your network, basically homelab->vps<-client. Here is a post that talks about something like that: https://taggart-tech.com/wireguard/
I haven't used this method personally, but I've done something similar for incoming web traffic before, when you want to host things behind a CGNAT. You can actually keep all the traffic confidential by having just an L4 proxy on the vps, then the http traffic is still end-to-end encrypted between the client and the service, so you don't even have to trust the vps provider when it comes to them snooping. They still get some metadata, but not significntly more than the ISPs.
I have done basically that before and it worked. But I find Tailscale with a headscale server easier to manage. Maybe I'll take a look into selfhosting netbird at some point too.
Whatever works for you, and as long as you have an out, that's great. I've just become wary of single-vendor opensource projects to the point where I basically treat them like proprietary software. So far that's worked, but it requires some restraint from using new shiny things