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# Tailscale Appliance Gokrazy Image
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This is (as of 2024-06-02) a **WORK IN PROGRESS** (pre-alpha) experiment to
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package Tailscale as a [Gokrazy](https://gokrazy.org/) appliance image
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for use on both VMs (AWS, GCP, Azure, Proxmox, ...) and Rasperry Pis.
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See https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/issues/1866
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## Overview
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It makes a ~70MB image (about the same size as
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`tailscale-setup-full-1.66.4.exe` and smaller than the combined
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Tailscale Android APK) that combines the Linux kernel and Tailscale
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and that's it. Nothing written in C. (except optional busybox for
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debugging) So no operating system to maintain. Gokrazy has three
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partitions: two read-only ones (one active at a time, the other for
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updates for the next boot) and one optional stateful, writable
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partition that survives upgrades (`/perm/`)
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Initial bootstrap configuration of this appliance will be over either
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serial or configuration files (auth keys, subnet routes, etc) baked into
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the image (for Raspberry Pis) or in cloud-init/user-data (for AWS, etc).
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As of 2024-06-02, AWS user-data config files work.
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## Quick start
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Install dependencies:
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```
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$ brew install qemu e2fsprogs
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```
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Build + launch:
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```
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$ make qemu
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```
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That puts serial on stdio. To exit the serial console and escape to
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the qemu monitor, type `Ctrl-a c`. Then type `quit` in the monitor to
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quit.
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## Building
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`make image` to build just the image (`tsapp.img`), without uploading it.
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## UTM
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You can also use UTM, but the qemu path above is easier.
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For UTM, see the [UTM instructions](UTM.md).
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## AWS
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### Build an AMI
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`go run build.go --bucket=your-S3-temp-bucket` to build an AMI. Make
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sure your "aws" command is in your path and has access.
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### Creating an instance
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When creating an instance, you need a Nitro machine type to get a
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virtual serial console. Notably, that means the `t2.*` instance types
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that AWS pushes as a free option are not new enough. Use `t3.*` at least.
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As of 2024-06-02 this builder tool only supports x86_64 (arm64 should
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be trivial and will come soon), so don't use a Graviton machine type.
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To connect to the serial console, you can either use the web console, or
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use the CLI like:
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```
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$ aws ec2-instance-connect send-serial-console-ssh-public-key --instance-id i-0b4a0eabc43629f13 --serial-port 0 --ssh-public-key file:///your/home/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub --region us-west-2
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{
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"RequestId": "a93b0ea3-9ff9-45d5-b8ed-b1e70ccc0410",
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"Success": true
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}
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$ ssh i-0b4a0eabc43629f13.port0@serial-console.ec2-instance-connect.us-west-2.aws
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```
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