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Posts tagged "tailscale"
One way in, and a dead route looks like a dead estate
A broken route into a network is indistinguishable from every service in it being down, because the evidence available from outside is identical in both cases. The fix is an order of diagnosis - prove the service from a chair that is not yours, then walk the path - and a gate that is never a tenant of the building it lets you into.
The bastion is a pattern, not a box
Admin credentials accumulate on whatever machine you happen to work from, until your daily driver is the real control plane of the fleet. A bastion fixes that, not by being special hardware, but by being the one place the keys live and the discipline that they never leave it.