Building a Home Network with Tailscale & Forgejo

A full walkthrough of the home network series from the channel. Follow the steps in order below, or jump straight to the part you need.

What you’ll build

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A home network with a private overlay (Tailnet) for secure remote access, and a self-hosted Forgejo instance reachable only over that Tailnet.

Prerequisites

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• Basic comfort with the command line
• A spare machine or VM for the server components
• (Optional) a domain name if you want to expose anything publicly later

Steps

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1. Planning the network
2. Setting up Tailscale
3. Forgejo on the Tailnet