Brad FitzpatrickandBrad Fitzpatrick
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Adds a Linux-only framebuffer status display (cmd/fbstatus) that draws
to /dev/fb0 on the Tailscale gokrazy appliance. It shows:
- the Tailscale logo
- the current tailscaled state (starting, needs login, running)
- a QR code with the login URL when enrollment is needed (triggers
StartLoginInteractive automatically so the URL appears without
user action)
- the LAN IP or "Waiting for DHCP (MAC)" pinned at the bottom-left
- Tailscale IPs once connected
VT switching: Ctrl-Alt-F2 drops to a busybox text shell on VT2 (for
debugging with a USB keyboard), Ctrl-Alt-F1 returns to the GUI.
Rendering pauses while the text VT is active.
On boot, fbstatus pokes the gokrazy unix socket API to restart the
breakglass SSH service (which uses DontStartOnBoot by default). It
waits until DHCP assigns an IP so breakglass binds to the LAN address
rather than just localhost.
Included in the tsapp-pi.arm64 gokrazy build by default.
Updates #1866
Change-Id: Ifdce4ad8e8c2e1005c840f579e637974a0a266d3
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
Tailscale Appliance Gokrazy Image
This is (as of 2024-06-02) a WORK IN PROGRESS (pre-alpha) experiment to package Tailscale as a Gokrazy appliance image for use on both VMs (AWS, GCP, Azure, Proxmox, ...) and Rasperry Pis.
See https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/issues/1866
Overview
It makes a ~70MB image (about the same size as
tailscale-setup-full-1.66.4.exe and smaller than the combined
Tailscale Android APK) that combines the Linux kernel and Tailscale
and that's it. Nothing written in C. (except optional busybox for
debugging) So no operating system to maintain. Gokrazy has three
partitions: two read-only ones (one active at a time, the other for
updates for the next boot) and one optional stateful, writable
partition that survives upgrades (/perm/)
Initial bootstrap configuration of this appliance will be over either serial or configuration files (auth keys, subnet routes, etc) baked into the image (for Raspberry Pis) or in cloud-init/user-data (for AWS, etc). As of 2024-06-02, AWS user-data config files work.
Quick start
Install dependencies:
$ brew install qemu e2fsprogs
Build + launch:
$ make qemu
That puts serial on stdio. To exit the serial console and escape to
the qemu monitor, type Ctrl-a c. Then type quit in the monitor to
quit.
Building
make image to build just the image (tsapp.img), without uploading it.
UTM
You can also use UTM, but the qemu path above is easier. For UTM, see the UTM instructions.
AWS
Build an AMI
go run build.go --bucket=your-S3-temp-bucket to build an AMI. Make
sure your "aws" command is in your path and has access.
Creating an instance
When creating an instance, you need a Nitro machine type to get a
virtual serial console. Notably, that means the t2.* instance types
that AWS pushes as a free option are not new enough. Use t3.* at least.
As of 2024-06-02 this builder tool only supports x86_64 (arm64 should be trivial and will come soon), so don't use a Graviton machine type.
To connect to the serial console, you can either use the web console, or use the CLI like:
$ aws ec2-instance-connect send-serial-console-ssh-public-key --instance-id i-0b4a0eabc43629f13 --serial-port 0 --ssh-public-key file:///your/home/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub --region us-west-2
{
"RequestId": "a93b0ea3-9ff9-45d5-b8ed-b1e70ccc0410",
"Success": true
}
$ ssh i-0b4a0eabc43629f13.port0@serial-console.ec2-instance-connect.us-west-2.aws