Host personal VPN on Railway using Tailscale
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To get started, you should create an account on tailscale, if you already have an account skip to next step
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Go to you tailscale admin console settings then to keys
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Click on 'Generate auth key ...'
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Give you key a description then click 'Generate key' when you are finished
Remember to take a note of the key because you'll see it only once
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Go to railway and paste in the key in TAILSCALE_AUTHKEY variable
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Deploy!
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Go to your tailscale machines and approve railway-app as an exit node
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Disable key expiry for the machine you just deployed
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Use this command to connect to your VPN
tailscale up --exit-node railway-app # or replace railway-app with your hostname
