A Mesh of My Own: Headscale and Container Sidecars

Tue, 15 Sep 2026 10:00:00 +0200

The two mail nodes live in different data centers, Frankfurt and Zurich, which means there is no shared private network between them. Anything they say to each other crosses the public internet. The same goes for every node added since. I wanted a private network that doesn’t care where a machine physically is, and I wanted its control plane to be mine, for the same reason the whole project exists.

Networking on Cumps · Geek.

A Mesh of My Own: Headscale and Container Sidecars