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Only the Tailscale pairing server is proprietary but there's a FOSS self-hostable alternative called Headscale.
The Tailscale clients are FOSS.
There isn't much of a guide, you install the Tailscale clients and make an account on their website. After you enroll your devices to the account with a code they'll be able to access each other via private IPs on an encrypted network based on WireGuard.
You can connect among devices with unsecured protocols like VNC because they'll be inside the encrypted network. And this works with any app and any protocol not just remote desktop — you can use Syncthing, access files, access any services you want securely etc.
Sounds pretty damn awesome, need to try it.
And to add to this, if you want another overlay network solution like Tailscale that is fully Open source, Netbird is something to check out.
Lawrence Systems has some vids on their product, fully self-hostable 1st party control plane and Foss clients. Newer, smaller, not as well supported as Tailscale, but solid enough for homelabs and small biz solutions from what I've seen/read.
I've messed with both and each has their own strengths. Both solutions are really awesome though. Unless you need really high network performance, I feel like overlay networks are the way to go. Soooo much easier to setup and maintain than traditional ipsec tunnels or even OpenVPN firewall configs and manual routes.
Really nice! uBlue has Tailscale preinstalled, but I now switched to their simpler variant. I will try Nerbird!