How to use twingate to access your homelab?

The following article is a simple how to that I am currently trying on my homelab.

Requirements or technology used:

• ubuntu
• podman installed

1. Create a Podman network

This will be important to because it will allow twingate connector to solve the names. Podman somehow will have a internal DNS.

~$ podman network create homelab-net

To inspect:

~$ podman network ls
~$ podman container list
~$ podman ps -a

2. Create twingate connector inside that network

podman run -d --network homelab-net 
--env TWINGATE_NETWORK="NETWORKNAME" 
--env TWINGATE_ACCESS_TOKEN="*" 
--env TWINGATE_REFRESH_TOKEN="*" 
--env TWINGATE_LABEL_HOSTNAME="`hostname`" 
--env TWINGATE_LABEL_DEPLOYED_BY="podman" 
--name "twingate-stoic-ermine" 
--restart=unless-stopped 
--pull=always 
docker.io/twingate/connector:latest

Take into account this is just an example. You will have to adapt. Twingate website will help you on that too.

3. Create a container with a simple nginx hello world page

podman run -d \
  --name nginx-test \
  --network homelab-net \
  -p 8080:80 \
  nginx:latest

4. Create the resource on Twingate using the name and the port

name: nginx-test

port: 80

Also give permissions to yourself in order to test it.

5. Testing

You have to install Twingate client on other device. I used my android.

Open Twingate

Go into your browser and type: http://nginx-test