Headscale

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An open-source implementation of the TailScale server

Features

• TailScale, an easy VPN setup tool, is entirely open source except for the per-OS UIs and the server
  • Based on WireGuard
• An open-source implementation that makes the Coordination/Control Server self-hostable
  • Handles public key exchange between nodes, IP allocation, boundaries between users, routing between nodes, etc.
• Currently implements most of TailScale except MagicDNS
  • A feature that automatically registers each device's name in DNS

See also

• VPN
• TailScale
• WireGuard
• Nebula - If you want to build an overlay network with open source, Nebula, made by Slack, is also an option.

Favorite site

• Github - headscale
• Setting up a headscale + k8s multi-cluster