https://tailscale.com/blog/ Recent blog posts from Tailscale Tue, 03 Dec 2024 08:56:43 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html tailscale.com en-US © 2024 Tailscale Inc. All rights reserved. https://tailscale.com/blog/infra-team-stays-small https://tailscale.com/blog/infra-team-stays-small Fri, 22 Nov 2024 14:00:00 GMT When I talk to other infrastructure folks at tech conferences, they’re usually shocked to hear that Tailscale’s infra team is just three engineers. Companies of similar size often have multiples of that. How do we manage to get by with so few people? Kylie Fisher https://tailscale.com/blog/video-searxng https://tailscale.com/blog/video-searxng Mon, 18 Nov 2024 15:00:41 GMT In today’s video, we’ll walk through how to install the application SearXNG in a container accessible from anywhere through Tailscale. SearXNG is a fully open-source search engine aggregator that can combine results from services and databases across the web and present them without any compromises on your privacy. Alex Kretzschmar https://tailscale.com/blog/2024-11-newsletter https://tailscale.com/blog/2024-11-newsletter Wed, 13 Nov 2024 16:00:00 GMT This month's newsletter brings a bunch of recent product updates, notes from the community about how folks are using Tailscale, and some upcoming events where you can catch us online and IRL. Parker Higgins https://tailscale.com/blog/s3-log-streaming https://tailscale.com/blog/s3-log-streaming Tue, 12 Nov 2024 13:00:00 GMT Tailscale administrators can now use Amazon S3 and S3-compatible buckets as streaming destinations for both configuration audit logs and network flow logs. Pouyan Aminian, Parker Higgins https://tailscale.com/blog/fast-50-2024 https://tailscale.com/blog/fast-50-2024 Wed, 06 Nov 2024 13:00:00 GMT Tailscale has been recognized in Deloitte’s Technology Fast 50 as one of Canada’s fastest-growing tech innovators. It’s an honour to be included alongside other companies that are pushing boundaries, both abroad and right here at home. David Carney https://tailscale.com/blog/factorio-multiplayer-video https://tailscale.com/blog/factorio-multiplayer-video Fri, 01 Nov 2024 19:00:58 GMT 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. Alex Kretzschmar https://tailscale.com/blog/1password-extended-access-kolide https://tailscale.com/blog/1password-extended-access-kolide Thu, 24 Oct 2024 14:00:00 GMT Tailscale’s device posture integration with 1Password’s Extended Access Management's device trust (previously Kolide) is now generally available. This integration is designed to address the access-trust gap of devices in your network, and helps ensure that only trusted and compliant devices are accessing your company’s network and resources. Tinku Thomas https://tailscale.com/blog/ai-normal https://tailscale.com/blog/ai-normal Fri, 18 Oct 2024 14:00:00 GMT A year ago, we started noticing that Tailscale was getting popular with AI companies. That was the good news. The bad news: we didn't know why. After a bunch of research, it turns out AI companies like Tailscale for pretty much the same reasons everyone else does. Avery Pennarun https://tailscale.com/blog/google-workspace-sync-ga https://tailscale.com/blog/google-workspace-sync-ga Wed, 16 Oct 2024 14:30:00 GMT With Google Workspace integration, Tailscale takes another big step towards simplifying network administration by working seamlessly with one of the most widely used productivity suites in the world. Tinku Thomas https://tailscale.com/blog/kubernetes-direct-connections https://tailscale.com/blog/kubernetes-direct-connections Tue, 15 Oct 2024 16:45:41 GMT When Tailscale usage starts to ramp up within an organization, bandwidth and latency issues from relayed connections can start to be noticeable to users. Solutions engineer Lee Briggs outlines how to minimize latency with direct connections in Kubernetes environments. Lee Briggs https://tailscale.com/blog/getting-started-with-tailscale-acls https://tailscale.com/blog/getting-started-with-tailscale-acls Mon, 30 Sep 2024 16:00:00 GMT When you want to fine-tune the rules of who has access to what inside your Tailscale network, the solution is our Access Control Lists, or ACLs. ACLs are a powerful way to manage access to the resources on your tailnet. This is a quick getting started guide for those of you who are ACL curious. Alex Kretzschmar https://tailscale.com/blog/last-reverse-proxy-you-need https://tailscale.com/blog/last-reverse-proxy-you-need Fri, 20 Sep 2024 14:15:00 GMT Today’s video walks through connecting a Virtual Private Server (VPS) in the cloud to your locally hosted infrastructure over an encrypted Tailscale tunnel, backed by WireGuard technology. We start by automatically spinning up and configuring the cloud VPS on DigitalOcean to act as our entrypoint to your self-hosted ecosystem. Alex Kretzschmar https://tailscale.com/blog/heart-of-dark-mode https://tailscale.com/blog/heart-of-dark-mode Thu, 29 Aug 2024 16:00:00 GMT Tailscale has finally joined the dark side. That is to say: we rolled out support for “dark mode” in our admin console. Working on dark mode helped us bring some much-needed consistency to our products for the web. Alessandro Mingione, Ross Zurowski https://tailscale.com/blog/video-iac-ansible-primer https://tailscale.com/blog/video-iac-ansible-primer Tue, 27 Aug 2024 14:45:00 GMT Ansible is one of those tools that once you learn it, you wonder why it took you so long to do so. Today's video goes into detail on using Ansible with Tailscale, using Tailscale SSH to simplify the sometimes-complicated story of identity and SSH keys. Alex Kretzschmar https://tailscale.com/blog/entra-id https://tailscale.com/blog/entra-id Tue, 13 Aug 2024 14:15:00 GMT User and group provisioning for Microsoft Entra ID is now generally available for Tailscale Enterprise plans. This integration lets you automate the process of creating new users to access your tailnet, removing users when they no longer need to have access, and more. Tinku Thomas