We’d love to hear your thoughts on Tailscale. Filling out this feedback form helps us build a better product for you and other users. July News Before we get into our July updates below, in case you missed it, we’ve uploaded videos from our first community event Tailscale Up. Che … | Continue reading
Tailscale gives you access to your devices regardless of their location, it follows that Tailscale should work wherever you are too! That said, while we’ve had an iOS app since the early days, this app hasn’t received much love in a long time. That changes today: with version 1.4 … | Continue reading
On the bright and sunny day of Wednesday, May 31, 2023 the developer relations team hosted Tailscale’s first user conference in San Francisco at Dogpatch Studios. We were looking to hear stories of Tailscale at home, work, and play from different industries and individuals, from … | Continue reading
Wishlist is a surprisingly fun personalized directory you can run in your terminal to browse and connect to multiple SSH services, made by the command line tool company Charm. You can think of Wishlist like a homepage for your SSH apps and servers. And starting today, you can tie … | Continue reading
Previously, we have made it possible for our customers to stream their configuration audit logs and network flow logs to security information and event management (SIEM) systems such as Splunk and ELK. We received a ton of customer requests to support Panther as a native streamin … | Continue reading
Tailscale is named as such because we want to allow small, human-scale teams to build trusted networks easily — without having the complexity or long tail of software and operational problems, which don’t scale well to a small team. Tail. Scale. Sure, sure, that’s a good vision1. … | Continue reading
Tailscale updated our terms and conditions today. Specifically, we updated our Terms of Service and our Privacy Policy. We can’t summarize the changes, because, well, we’re not lawyers, and lawyers like it when we link to the full language of the change — apparently if you don’t … | Continue reading
We are pleased to announce the general availability of network flow logs and log steaming. Network flow logs allow Tailscale customers to monitor the network activity in their tailnet. These logs can help detect threats, investigate security incidents, and maintain compliance sta … | Continue reading
We want to hear from you: How can we improve Tailscale? We’d love to hear what you think about Tailscale, and filling out this Google form helps us build a better product for you! June News Before we get into what happened in June, let’s go back to the beginning of the month. We … | Continue reading
An official Tailscale app has landed in the QNAP App Center, so now users of the company’s network-attached storage devices can download and install a Tailscale client with just a few clicks. QNAP users can install the Tailscale package directly from the QNAP App Center. Please n … | Continue reading
We’re releasing a Tailscale extension for Visual Studio Code, a text editor we hear is pretty popular. The new extension, now in beta, brings the magic of your tailnet even closer to your code and makes it easier than ever to share your local development over the internet for col … | Continue reading
Tailscale now supports passkeys as the newest way to authenticate to your tailnet. Passkeys let you extend your tailnet to users beyond your identity provider, without worrying about weak or reused passwords. This also means that if you are on the Free plan and you’re using a sin … | Continue reading
Tailscale’s ease of setup and use is one of the reasons so many individuals choose our free plan to run their homelabs. With a few clicks they can add devices to their tailnet, manage access controls for users, and with a little magic, host a private Minecraft server for their fr … | Continue reading
When we launched Tailscale, we wanted it to be the easiest way for users to connect their devices securely across the internet. So, when you sign up, your Tailscale network (tailnet) is automatically created based on your domain. Anyone in the same custom domain as you can automa … | Continue reading
Today we’re kicking off Tailscale Up, our first ever community conference. To celebrate the occasion, we’re announcing new features that address some of the top community feature requests — and we hope will excite you. We’ll be rolling out more information about these announcemen … | Continue reading
We’d love to hear your thoughts on Tailscale. Filling out this feedback form helps us build a better product for you and other users. May News May has been a big month for the Tailscale team. We launched session recording for Tailscale SSH in beta, allowing you to record the te … | Continue reading
We’re pleased to announce that custom OIDC is now generally available for all users. With custom OIDC, users can sign into Tailscale using any identity provider that supports OpenID Connect (OIDC). To use a custom OIDC provider with Tailscale, you must verify domain ownership by … | Continue reading
Today, we’re launching session recording for Tailscale SSH in beta, allowing you to record the terminal output whenever someone on your tailnet initiates a Tailscale SSH connection. You can use these recordings to detect threats, investigate security incidents, and remain complia … | Continue reading
This blog post is contributed by Stevan Arychuk, Head of Information Security and Site Reliability at Reclaim.ai. Reclaim.ai is an intelligent calendar assistant that helps teams and individuals optimize their schedules by automatically allocating time for their meetings, tasks a … | Continue reading
Users can now sign in to Tailscale using their Apple ID. For users who favor having their credentials managed by Apple in iCloud, this is a great choice. On the Mac and iPhone, signing in to Tailscale with your Apple ID takes advantage of TouchID and FaceID, so signing in is even … | Continue reading
Tailscale takes your network’s security and reliability seriously. That’s why we built features like configuration audit logs to help you monitor and review changes to your network. Recently, we released network flow logs, in beta, to help you monitor network activity in your tai … | Continue reading
For large organizations, identity management and access control isn’t just about authenticating users and defining what they have access to, it’s also about delivering a great user experience without compromising security. Tailscale requires users to log in with an identity provi … | Continue reading
Since launching four years ago, Tailscale has been adopted by thousands of companies seeking easier and more powerful ways to build networks and interconnect devices. Customers like Instacart, Mercari, Duolingo, and Mercury Bank are using Tailscale in wide-scale deployments, ofte … | Continue reading
Today we’re announcing the third generation of Tailscale plans and pricing. Most noticeably: The Free plan is expanding from one to three users. Monthly paid plans now include three free users, and bill you only for additional users who actively exchange data over Tailscale (“usa … | Continue reading
Hi, it’s us again. You might remember us from when we made significant performance-related changes to wireguard-go, the userspace WireGuard® implementation that Tailscale uses. We’re releasing a set of changes that further improves client throughput on Linux. We intend to upstrea … | Continue reading
In case you missed it, Tailscale Up is our first community conference that brings Tailscale out of the network layer and into the real world on Wednesday, May 31. Come to meet open source maintainers, hardware hackers, self-hosters, and Tailscalars (sometimes all the same person) … | Continue reading
We want to hear from you: How can we improve Tailscale? March has flown by! All month long, we’ve been heads-down getting some cool new features over the finish line and into your hands. For example: Tailscale has long supported using Google, GitHub, and other popular identity pr … | Continue reading
Tailscale Funnel, a tool that lets you share a web server on your private tailnet with the public internet, is now available as a beta feature for all users. With Funnel enabled, you can share access to a local development server, test a webhook, or even host a blog. Funnel p … | Continue reading
When a new user signs up for Tailscale with alice@example.com, they automatically join the same Tailscale network (tailnet) as everyone else @example.com. This makes it easy for small teams to get started with Tailscale. For more complex management of users in your organization, … | Continue reading
At Tailscale, we don’t want your users (or us) managing a separate list of usernames and passwords, which is why you must use single sign-on with an identity provider to create and manage your network. Until now, that meant you needed to choose from a handful of trusted identity … | Continue reading
We’re excited about what’s been happening at Tailscale this month! Configuration audit logs are now generally available for all Tailscale users, and we’ve announced a new integration that lets your CodeSandbox Repository access private resources on your tailnet. We’ve also introd … | Continue reading
Tailscale is, at its heart, network infrastructure. The value of network infrastructure is what it enables us to connect with. Our users already use Tailscale to peer their cloud and on-premises infrastructure, bridge Kubernetes clusters, and peer across sites — even when facing … | Continue reading
If you have a large organization, you typically have a finance or accounting team that manages your spend on technology, but not the technology itself. We’re making two changes to make it easier for you to manage billing: we’re introducing a new Billing Admin role, and allowing i … | Continue reading
We’re bringing Tailscale out of the network layer and into the real world with Tailscale Up, the first-ever in-person Tailscale community conference, on May 31 in San Francisco. Meet Open Source maintainers, hardware hackers, self-hosters, and Tailscalars (sometimes all the same … | Continue reading
A few months ago I was poking around the package contents of Tailscale’s macOS app when I happened to notice that the main Tailscale binary was surprisingly large — more than 37 megabytes. Some of the size is explained by it being a universal app — it includes both x86_64 (for In … | Continue reading
Developing software in an IDE like CodeSandbox requires access to many on-prem or cloud resources, from package and container image registries to databases. When you’re using CodeSandbox for remote development, you’ll want to access those resources securely and with the lowest po … | Continue reading
We’re pleased to announce that configuration audit logs are now generally available for all Tailscale users. Configuration audit logs record changes made to your Tailscale network’s, or tailnet’s, configuration. If you’re an admin of a tailnet, you can access audit logs in the Lo … | Continue reading
Tailscale’s API gives you programmatic access to many of your Tailscale resources, including devices on your tailnet, access controls in your tailnet policy file, and DNS settings. Today we’re launching two improvements to how you authenticate to the Tailscale API: the ability to … | Continue reading
With Tailscale v1.36 actions can be directly triggered and automated with the Shortcuts app on iOS and macOS. We’ve added support for managing the connection state, using exit nodes, and switching between profiles. You can combine the Tailscale actions with other automations to c … | Continue reading
Traefik, the popular load balancing and reverse proxy tool, has added support for Tailscale as a certificate resolver in Traefik Proxy 3.0 beta, the latest release of its forward proxy offering. Today, one of the engineers behind this integration has published a fun deep dive int … | Continue reading
As we took a few days away from our keyboards over the holidays, we here at Tailscale also spent time reflecting on the year we had in 2022, which seemed to come and go before we knew it. It was quite a journey — and we wanted to share with you some highlights from what was a dec … | Continue reading
Our December newsletter is out a bit early as we here at Tailscale take the final days of 2022 to rest up, be festive, and reflect on the year gone by — and what a momentous year it’s been, with lots of big product updates and company news. Here are just a few highlights: We laun … | Continue reading
When setting up cloud infrastructure for your team, it often makes sense to provision sensitive services in private subnets. However, this usually means that those services are not easily accessible from your personal devices or CI/CD infrastructure. Tailscale already makes it po … | Continue reading
We’re pleased to announce that user & group provisioning for Okta is now generally available. You can sync group membership and deactivated users from Okta, and refer to a synced group as part of an access rule in your tailnet policy file. Onboarding and offboarding are two of th … | Continue reading
Today we are happy to announce that Crunchy Bridge has integrated with Tailscale to provide easy access to your database from any of your devices, wherever they are running. Crunchy Bridge is a managed Postgres product that runs your database for you on your choice of cloud. … | Continue reading
Users sometimes ask us, “How can I trust Tailscale?” From the beginning, we’ve tried to make it so you don’t have to, by architecting our infrastructure with security and privacy in mind. When you use Tailscale, your data is end-to-end encrypted. Tailscale doesn’t have the privat … | Continue reading
We made significant improvements to the throughput of wireguard-go, which is the userspace WireGuard® implementation that Tailscale uses. What this means for you: improved performance of the Tailscale client on Linux. We intend to upstream these changes to WireGuard as well. You … | Continue reading
Fast user switching has come to Tailscale! Starting in v1.34, out today, you’ll be able to quickly switch between Tailscale accounts on the same device, without re-authenticating. (We heard you.) To switch between tailnets on macOS, click on the Tailscale icon … | Continue reading