Tailscale

This is Part 2 of the GitOps series. Part 1 covered bootstrapping and configuring HashiCorp Vault (the one-time terraform-admin work) and the design goals for Zero Trust secrets management.

A long time ago, my house only had 1 router, located on the third floor. So whenever we needed to access the internet while having dinner on the first floor, we needed to enable 4G or walk near the stairs just to receive a fraction of the WiFi signal. My father decided to give me an important task, which was to figure out how to solve this issue. I initially bought a simple WiFi extender located on the second floor, but after using it for a month, even though we could receive a strong signal from it, we couldn’t access the internet because the signal from the router on the 3rd floor to the WiFi extender on the 2nd floor was still really weak.

A week ago, my laptop died. When I booted it up, it said something like, fTPM is corrupted, press Y to reset or N to do nothing. Neither of them helped me boot into my machine. So I had a severe mental attack back then, because that machine was the primary one that helped me do my work for school, my lab, and my personal projects. I was lucky to have my friend lend me an old laptop of his, but it was pretty bulky, so I figured I couldn’t bring it to school. Therefore, I had to go to the school library to do my work on its public computers.