Problem:
When starting headscale 0.17.0 or newer, you see repeating error messages like
headscale_1 | 2022-11-26T20:03:39Z FTL go/src/headscale/cmd/headscale/cli/server.go:21 > Error initializing error="cannot parse `host=postgres dbname=headscale user=headscale sslmode= port=5432 password=xxxxx`: failed to configure TLS (sslmode is invalid)"
Solution:
This error occurs due to a change starting from headscale 0.17.0. In your config.yaml, add
db_ssl: false
after db_type: ...
Complete database section config example:
# # Postgres config db_type: postgres db_host: postgres db_port: 5432 db_name: headscale db_user: headscale db_pass: Paep6AhJiZeedie5fiefieV0quohro db_ssl: false
After that, restart headscale and the error message should disappear.