JIT Network Access: Demo and Q&A
Just-in-time (JIT) Network Access is an API-first solution to provide temporary, time-bound, and audited elevated access to resources within your Tailscale network (tailnet). Up until this point, JIT access with Tailscale has required the purchase of an additional dedicated 3rd party JIT solution to manage, or meant cobbling together different parts of the product to build a very manual version of JIT access.
That's no longer the case. Join Alex and Allen as they demo how to use our API to set up Just-in-time access and then answer your questions.
Allen Vailliencourt, Solutions Engineer
Alex Kretzschmar, Developer AdvocateJIT Network Access and Tailscale
There is the primary API component which can be used stand alone to integrate with existing access systems, as well as, two initial access bot projects in Tailscale Community Projects that can be used as a more turn-key solution:
- Expiring Posture Attributes API: Temporarily elevate a device's access based on custom posture attribute with an automatic expiration.
- Slack Workflow Integration: A streamlined approval workflow for requesting and granting JIT access via Slack.
- Github Action: A deployable GitHub Action allowing Tailscale users to request and approve just-in-time access to Tailnet resources.
Allen Vailliencourt, Solutions EngineerAlex Kretzschmar, Developer Advocate
