What is Tailscale?
It connect all your devices using WireGuard, without the hassle. Create a secure network between your servers, computers, and cloud instances. Even when separated by firewalls or subnets, Tailscale just works.
It makes it as easy as installing an app and signing in.
Tailscale is a tool in the Virtual Private Cloud category of a tech stack.
Who uses Tailscale?
Companies
8 companies reportedly use Tailscale in their tech stacks, including Productboard, Gini, and Agricool.
Developers
26 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Tailscale.
Tailscale Integrations
G Suite, Linux, iOS, Windows, and Okta are some of the popular tools that integrate with Tailscale. Here's a list of all 6 tools that integrate with Tailscale.
Decisions about Tailscale
Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose Tailscale in their tech stack.
Bryan Dady
SRE Manager at Subsplash · | 6 upvotes · 45.8K views
Do you know of a 'commercial' WireGuard packages that might be usable for startup/corporate VPN solution as an alternative to OpenVPN or Tailscale? So far, I've found Perimeter 81 and AppGate. If you have any real-world experience with a WireGuard solution for a business setting, I'd greatly appreciate hearing from you.
Tailscale's Features
- Access controls & monitoring
- Always the same IP
Tailscale Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Tailscale?
NGINX
nginx [engine x] is an HTTP and reverse proxy server, as well as a mail proxy server, written by Igor Sysoev. According to Netcraft nginx served or proxied 30.46% of the top million busiest sites in Jan 2018.
Apache HTTP Server
The Apache HTTP Server is a powerful and flexible HTTP/1.1 compliant web server. Originally designed as a replacement for the NCSA HTTP Server, it has grown to be the most popular web server on the Internet.
Amazon EC2
It is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers.
Firebase
Firebase is a cloud service designed to power real-time, collaborative applications. Simply add the Firebase library to your application to gain access to a shared data structure; any changes you make to that data are automatically synchronized with the Firebase cloud and with other clients within milliseconds.
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
It is a comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, offering over 200 fully featured services from data centers globally.
