We’re excited to announce the general availability of Google Workspace integration — user and group provisioning for Google Workspace. This is a powerful new feature in Tailscale designed to allow admins to seamlessly sync their users and groups in their Google Workspace with Tailscale, streamlining access provisioning and making secure networking even easier.
What is Google Workspace integration?
The Google Workspace integration with Tailscale enables administrators to automatically provision users and groups from Google Workspace into a Tailscale network (or tailnet). By syncing Google Workspace users, you can automatically onboard and offboard users to your tailnet without additional work. If your organization already uses Google Groups for managing user access, you can import those groups and their members to your tailnet, and then refer to those user-friendly group names in the Tailscale policy file to define access rules.
This means no more manual updates or duplicate effort — any changes made to a Google Workspace will be reflected in your tailnet at regular intervals.
Key benefits of Google Workspace integration
- Automated access control: No more managing user permissions across multiple platforms. With Google Workspace integration, you can handle users & group memberships and access control directly from your Google Workspace console. Updates in user state and Google Groups will propagate at regular intervals, or you can cause them to immediately take effect by forcing a sync in Tailscale, ensuring consistent, real-time access management.
- Simplified onboarding and offboarding: Adding or removing users from a network is now easier than ever. When a new employee is added to a Google Workspace, they will automatically gain access to the appropriate resources in Tailscale. Likewise, when someone leaves, their access will be revoked without additional steps — streamlining the entire user lifecycle process.
- Centralized management: If your organization is already using Google Workspace to manage users, Tailscale’s integration provides a single, centralized place to manage your network permissions. This leads to fewer mistakes and better visibility into who has access to what resources within your Tailscale network.
- Seamless security integration: Syncing Google Workspace with Tailscale ensures that your access controls are always up-to-date. Whether it’s changing group policies or managing member lists, your Tailscale security policies will be consistent with the rest of your organization’s systems.
Ready to simplify your network access provisioning?
If you are an Enterprise customer, refer to our documentation for step-by-step instructions and see how Google Workspace integration can save you time and improve your team’s network security.
Feel free to reach out with any questions, and stay tuned for more integrations!
Tinku Thomas
