You may think of Tailscale as the best way to connect to your homelab or your work’s private resources, but it’s also great for connecting with friends. With the recent release of Factorio’s Space Age expansion, we’ve been playing a lot of the base-building game — and that started with setting up a multiplayer server and sharing it into our friends’ tailnets.
In today’s video, I’ll walk you through how to set up a headless Factorio multiplayer server on top of the familiar Docker and Linux stack. If that whets your appetite for more container content, we’ve got other videos on using Tailscale with Docker available.
I’ll also show you how to share the Tailscale node privately with your friends, as a shared node that appears in their tailnets. This allows them to connect to your server securely over the internet without you having to open any ports or touch a single firewall rule, thanks to Tailscale’s NAT traversal technology.
May your factory grow strong! And when you finally clock out, you can stay involved in the Tailscale community — in our YouTube comments, on the bustling subreddit, and in replies on X and Mastodon. We love getting feedback on Tailscale and want to hear from you.
Alex Kretzschmar
