Tailscail and TrueNas Scale Woes

I have a rather vanilla truenas scale instance. Keeping it as straight forward as possible. I don’t color outside the lines with on which source to add apps from or custom config options in the app itself (besides exit node and advertise route).

In short, im sick of every few months an update or some other left field thing rending my exit node useless and having to destory it then recreate. Does anyone have any suggestions? Am I better served by hosting the node on different hardware than my truenas box?

Well, I had a similar experience with TrueNas and decided to drop it in favor of a Proxmox based system.

Much happier now.
Upgrades have predictable behavior, much lower resource consumption for same or higher workloads.

I think there are a group of influencers that made talking about TrueNas part of their business…

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TruNAS is excellent as a NAS….

I use Debian with Portainer because TruNAS gave me so many issues and every update broke anything I did that wasn’t traditional NAS functions.

I would highly recommend moving any service that isn’t directly served by TruNAS out of the box to a different system or re-evaluate if you actually need TruNAS.

In my case I didn’t actually need a traditional NAS since I wanted to run file management and sharing through Nextcloud and I have only one SMB share so I manually configured that in the command line.

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In my expeirence Truenas really simplified how to maximize the power of ZFS (for the masses) on a NAS, beyond that I regret trying anything else on it. Im not huge on Proxmox for my use cases but i might try it out again. thanks for the perspective.

Any good guides on how you went about this? Im reasonably close to pulling an old desktop out of the closet and dedicating it to containers at this point.

…or just run FreeBSD? Tailscale is is ports…