Blog|December 31, 2021

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December brought fascinating community contributions, including How To Get Tailscale Working With a Fire TV Stick and how to use Tailscale for SSH access to ‘LAN’ locked machines. Let’s jump in:

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From the community

I Cut My Cloud Bill with Tailscale [Video, English]
Twitter user @adriandotgoins shares how he cut his cloud bills by 95% with Tailscale. Part One | Part Two
Use Tailscale For SSH Access To “Lan” Locked Machines [Video, English]
This video demonstrates how to use Tailscale to access web development machines from anywhere. No static IPs, no dyndns, no port forwarding required.
Tailscale and Docker
Gitlab user Gruber shares their Tailscale Docker-based relay.
Replace personal VPN with Tailscale [Chinese]
Gea-Suan Lin gives a review of Tailscale.
Using Tailscale to remotely access Synology and Vaultwarden
Jussi Roine shares how they built a more secure setup with Tailscale to access Vaultwarden and Synology.
Tailscale and WireGuard
Twitter user @keithjjones shares a Zeek WireGuard protocol analyzer based on Spicy.
Tailscale for Mikrotik Containers
Build and configuration information to run Tailscale in Mikrotik Containers.
Tailscale and Cloudfare
GitHub community member @marc1307 shows how to Sync Tailscale host IPs to a Cloudflare hosted DNS.
How To Get Tailscale Working With a Fire TV Stick
Reddit user “Broke Tech” shares how to get Tailscale working with a Fire TV Stick.
Configurable terraform for a free, firewalled, oracle-cloud ARM Ubuntu machine
Leigh Capili shares configurable terraform for a free, firewalled, Oracle-cloud ARM Ubuntu machine with Tailscale and Docker.
Connect your Kubernetes Cluster with Tailscale
Adam Engebretson shows how to quickly connect a Kubernetes Cluster with Tailscale.
Local reverse proxies for Tailscale on WSL2
Danny Hermes showcases their GitHub feature on a pair of local reverse proxies (one in Windows, one in Linux) for Tailscale on WSL2.
Gitpod Template with Tailscale
Gerard Braad created a Gitpod template with Fedora and Tailscale.
Super-Charged Remote Development with Tailscale and Jetbrains Projector
Ari Kalfus wanted to easily stand up a remote dev server they could connect to from a browser and keep private and secure. Tailscale helped achieve this.
Bare Metal Kubernetes with Tailscale
Danny Hermes shares how to get Tailscale working with a Bare Metal Kubernetes cluster. They write, “I’ve had a ton of fun toying with Tailscale recently (it’s incredible how literally everything ‘just works’).”

From Tailscale

Simplify and Manage Access With Tailscale
Tailscale has changed the way Jasper’s engineering team works, allowing them to simplify and manage access with added security.
VersaBank partners with Tailscale to modernize their VPN
Secure enough for banks, easy enough for all of IT. Read how VersaBank modernized their infrastructure with Tailscale.
A Reliable VPN for Zego’s DevOps
With Tailscale, it’s like being in the same office. Read how Zego makes development and operations run smoothly.
How Gini simplifies access management
Gini uses Tailscale to make access management, key rotation, 2FA, and device management a breeze.
Remotely managing IoT over 4G? No problem with Tailscale
Finter uses Tailscale to manage remote cameras effortlessly in a hub-and-spoke network.