Stop Port Forwarding! Secure Home Lab Access with Modern Tools

Here’s why I stopped exposing my home lab to the Internet—and what I use instead. In this video I walk through four secure, modern remote-access options that let you reach Proxmox, pfSense, Portainer, Gitea, Grafana, Home Assistant, and more without opening ports or playing NAT roulette: Twingate, Tailscale (WireGuard mesh), vanilla WireGuard, and Cloudflare Tunnel. Written blog post on this topic: https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2025/07/stop-exposing-your-home-lab-do-this-instead/ WG-Easy post: https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2023/07/wg-easy-wireguard-config-generator-vpn-server-in-docker/ GEEKOM A5 (2025 edition) Great for Proxmox! https://geni.us/geekoma52025-3 https://www.skool.com/homelabexplorers/about?ref=25f64c297b724689ae81c7dd30ba2c21 ★ Substack URL: bleevht.substack.com ★ Subscribe to the channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrxcWtpd1IGHG9RbD_9380A?sub_confirmation=1 ★ My blog: https://www.virtualizationhowto.com ★ Twitter: https://twitter.com/vspinmaster ★ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandon-lee-vht/ ★ Github: https://github.com/brandonleegit ★ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/people/VirtualizationHowto/100092747277326/ ★ Discord: https://discord.gg/Zb46NV6mB3 ★ Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/brandonleevht/ Introduction to exposing your home lab to the Internet! 0:00 Video sponsor message - 1:00 Twingate - 1:45 Looking at the Twingate Docker Compose code - 2:41 Tailscale - 5:20 Getting started with Tailscale - 6:12 Wireguard - 7:20 WG-Easy for Wireguard - 8:00 Cloudflare tunnel - 8:24 Wrapping up secure access solutions to home lab - 9:18