tailmox - in action

[willjasen]

hello all! i've been working here and there on tailmox, a means of clustering together proxmox servers via tailscale to allow for features such as staged zfs replications/migrations across geographically distant nodes.

i've been running the dev version for a while now on my own cluster, and i have recently wanted to surface data in regards to cluster performance, link latency, corosync statistics, etc.

while i'm not quite ready to ship a numbered version just yet, you can view stats about my live tailmox cluster at https://tailmox.com/. there is a corresponding way to interact with tailmox via the web from an administrative side, but those pages are only available through a tailscale service for security reasons.

tailmox garnered a decent amount of eyes, and i'm thankful in the interest there that has been.

 

[LnxBil]

Nice idea, but building a cluster on a volatile link with a third party VPN solution as an external SPOF is a very good recipe for disaster. If you leave out the clustering, it's a nice solution.

 

[willjasen]

the clustering is the point though! but tailmox is very much a research-style project to be used at one’s own risk. it’s worked okay for my single use case, in my own personal environment, for the way that i’ve needed it.