AI Disclosure:

• Implementation - Hint. Syntax was reviewed and polished by AI.
• Testing - Assisted. AI was used to troubleshoot whenever I got stuck
• Documentation - Generated

I spent the last three months slowly tinkering with Headscale and trying to get it to run on one of Google’s “free-tier” cloud instances, while also learning about GCI’s strange setup. During that time I used Claude Sonnet to keep track of my progress and help me troubleshoot whenever I got stuck. I finally got it going and before I closed the project, I asked Claude to document my work along with all pertinent information and create and admin cheatsheet, just in case I forget. I liked the output, so I asked the LLM to sanitize my data and recreate my project as a step-by-step walktrhough in a single HTML page.

PROVIDED AS-IS!!! Do not copy and paste code blindly. Use this as a walkthough/guide and NOT as a recipe book. You WILL need to correct code.

EDIT: It looks like for this document, Claude also took it upon itself to further clean my configs, scripts, etc., and add a lot of comments to make it all easier to understand. I DO NOT work this cleanly. It looks correct though.