<ol>
<li>Download and open the Tailscale macOS app from the App Store, or <a href="/kb/1065/macos-variants/#automating-app-store-installs">using the <code>mas</code> CLI tool</a></li>
<li>Follow the Tailscale onboarding flow, which will guide you to install the Tailscale VPN configuration</li>
<li>Sign up with your <a href="/kb/1013/sso-providers/">SSO identity provider</a></li>
</ol>

Install Tailscale on macOS

macOS

<ol>
<li>Download and open the Tailscale iOS app</li>
<li>Accept the prompts to install a VPN configuration and allow push notifications</li>
<li>Sign up using your team&rsquo;s email address</li>
</ol>

Install Tailscale on iOS

<ol>
<li>Download and run the Windows installer</li>
<li>Click on Log in from the Tailscale icon now in your system tray and authenticate in your browser</li>
<li>Sign up with your team email address</li>
</ol>

Install Tailscale on Windows

Windows

Packages are available for x86 and ARM CPUs, in both 32-bit and 64-bit
variants.
<ol>
<li>
Add Tailscale&rsquo;s package signing key and repository:
<pre tabindex="0"><code>curl -fsSL https://pkgs.tailscale.com/stable/ubuntu/focal.noarmor.gpg | sudo tee /usr/share/keyrings/tailscale-archive-keyring.gpg &gt;/dev/null
curl -fsSL https://pkgs.tailscale.com/stable/ubuntu/focal.tailscale-keyring.list | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/tailscale.list
</code></pre></li>
<li>
Install Tailscale:
<pre tabindex="0"><code>sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install tailscale
</code></pre></li>
<li>
Connect your machine to your Tailscale network and authenticate in your browser:
<pre tabindex="0"><code>sudo tailscale up
</code></pre></li>
<li>
You&rsquo;re connected! You can find your Tailscale IPv4 address by running:
<pre tabindex="0"><code>tailscale ip -4
</code></pre></li>
</ol>
If the device you added is a server or remotely-accessed device, you may want to consider <a href="/kb/1028/key-expiry">disabling key expiry</a> to prevent the need to periodically re-authenticate.

Setting up Tailscale on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (focal)

Linux

Amazon Linux 2

Arch Linux

CentOS 7

CentOS 8

CentOS Stream 9

Debian Bookworm

Debian Bullseye

Debian Buster

Debian Sid

Debian Stretch

Fedora

NixOS

openSUSE Leap 15.1

openSUSE Leap 15.2

openSUSE Tumbleweed

Oracle Linux 7

Oracle Linux 8

RHEL 8

RHEL 9

Raspberry Pi Bullseye

Raspberry Pi Buster

Raspberry Pi Stretch

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial)

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic)

Ubuntu 19.10 (Eoan)

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal)

Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy)

Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute)

Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish)

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy)

Other

<ol>
<li>Download and the Tailscale app from the Play Store</li>
<li>Accept the prompts to install a VPN configuration</li>
<li>Sign up with your team&rsquo;s email address</li>
</ol>

Download

Install Tailscale on Windows

Next Steps