5 reasons ZeroTier is the best Tailscale alternative for your home lab

These days, home lab is a bit of a misnomer because your infrastructure could very well be spread out between devices in different locations, or even in the cloud. This provides challenges for traditional networking configurations but tools using modern protocols like WireGuard can help. One such tool is Tailscale, which sets up peer-to-peer (p2p) VPNs between your devices, so they can communicate securely, at scale, and at distance. One other software tool well worth your time is ZeroTier, which looks similar from the outside, but accomplishes the networking between your devices in a different way. It's like having a virtual network switch with no geographical restrictions, and it's perfect for home lab use.