Tailscale

• Tailscale Website
• GitHub
• CLient open source, original control server component not, although there's
  • Headscale
  • ionscale

Docs

• How Tailscale works
• Configuring Linux DNS
• Manage your Tailscale resources with Terraform
  • tailscale terraform provider
• Network access controls (ACLs)
• Tailscale on Kubernetes

Install

Linux client

• Client in Golang, packages in a PPA
• Repology.org
• tailscale snap is outdated
• Download tailscale

Arch:

sudo pacman -S tailscale

Debian:

curl -fsSL https://pkgs.tailscale.com/stable/debian/trixie.noarmor.gpg | sudo tee /usr/share/keyrings/tailscale-archive-keyring.gpg >/dev/null
curl -fsSL https://pkgs.tailscale.com/stable/debian/trixie.tailscale-keyring.list | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/tailscale.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install tailscale

Raspberry Pi

Install Tailscale on Rasperry Pi

sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https
curl -fsSL https://pkgs.tailscale.com/stable/raspbian/$(lsb_release  -cs).noarmor.gpg \
  | sudo tee /usr/share/keyrings/tailscale-archive-keyring.gpg > /dev/null
curl -fsSL https://pkgs.tailscale.com/stable/raspbian/$(lsb_release  -cs).tailscale-keyring.list \
  | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/tailscale.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install tailscale

Android client

• Headscale docs: Connecting an Android client
• Docs
• Play store
• F-Droid
  • Is multiple minor versions behind (as of 2025-10)

Ansible role

see headscale.md

Tailscale on Kubernetes

• Tailscale on Kubernetes
• Helm Charts repository
  • Contains currently only the helm chart for Tailscale K8s operator
• K3s Tailscale integration

Usage

Show client config:

tailscale debug prefs