

tailscale is a vpn. you don’t need cloudflare for it. you do need to set up the tail scale container with your credentials from tail scale, which they have guides for. after that, log in on your machine and click the connect toggle and you’re in.
the exit node is if you want to look like you’re at your host computer.





that’s quite a long compose file.
the way that I use cloud flare is with tunnels since my ISP blocks my ports. I have cloudflared running that connects to the cloudflare tunnel, which has a map of domain name to a service name, which is how services are accessed externally.
tailscale connects to tail scales main service and that’s how I access internal systems. at least that’s how I’m running it.