Tailscale
BSD-3-Clause WireGuard mesh VPN client
AI Agents / Networking · BSD-3-Clause · 37.7k
Reviewed 2026-10-16 · last push 2026-10-19 · repo checked 2026-10-19
What's Good
BSD-3-Clause plus a patent grant (tailscale/tailscale), release v1.104.1. This repo is the open-source client and daemon for Linux, macOS, Windows and more, including Tailscale SSH, subnet routers and exit nodes. Setup is a login and a command per machine. ★~37.6k.
The Catch
By default every node connects to Tailscale’s hosted coordination server, a proprietary service with its own plans and limits. To run everything yourself you pair the client with headscale, the open-source coordination server, and lose some hosted features.
Verdict
The easiest way to put your machines on one private network — self-host the control side with headscale if that matters.
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