I'm quite exited by the idea as well as the team behind Tailscale: a mesh VPN—claiming and aiming for "Private networks made easy [finally]"…
Tailscale is a mesh VPN that makes it easy to connect your devices, wherever they are. No more fighting configuration or firewall ports.
I learned about Tailscale this week from my Twitter timeline—actually by multiple, "high profile" signals.
It's making use of WireGuard, w/ services and glue code implemented in Go, supports multiple SSO provider (for now I'm using Google)… and will eventually open-sourced (at some point).
The use cases/ solutions it can be applied to, really seem endless… 🤔️
- simple VPN for remote offices—of course I'm thinking co-working spaces ;-)
- seamless connectivity to dev/ stage machine of yours or co-worker, especially in remote/ distributed teams
- create a mesh network of your
IoTembedded device fleat—think Raspberry Pi et al. - create a mesh network of distributed—even multi-cloud—(micro) services and APIs
- …
Settings up Tailscale is simple and absolutely straight forward—for me so far only on Linux and iOS—but for your likely as simple on macOS, Windows (Android coming soon-ish) —› Getting Started with Tailscale
Next up: Setting up Tailscale on Raspberry Pi…