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Tailscale is a Zero Trust identity-based connectivity platform that replaces your legacy VPN, SASE, and PAM and connects remote teams, multi-cloud environments, CI/CD pipelines, Edge & IoT devices, and AI workloads.

Get Started

What is Tailscale? \ \ Get a brief introduction to Tailscale. Start using Tailscale \ \ Install Tailscale, create a network, and invite your team. Solutions \ \ Explore how to use Tailscale in various scenarios through hands-on guides. Use cases \ \ Explore ways people use Tailscale at home and at work. FAQ \ \ Answers to common questions.

Manage your tailnet

Manage access \ \ Manage access to your Tailscale resources. Manage users \ \ See how to invite users, assign or change user roles, remove users, and quickly switch between accounts. Manage your organization \ \ Manage your contact information, your account, the plans we offer, and how to manage your tailnet DNS name and domain.

Expand your tailnet

Subnet routers \ \ Use subnet routers to give devices outside your local network access to services within specific subnets. Extend your private network with Tailscale. Exit nodes (route all traffic) \ \ Route all internet traffic through a specific device on your network. Docker \ \ Explore how to use Tailscale inside Docker containers. Kubernetes operator \ \ Expose your Kubernetes cluster to your Tailscale network. Logging overview \ \ Understand Tailscale's logging infrastructure. Integrations \ \ How to use Tailscale to various kinds of servers, services, or devices. Automations \ \ Automate your tailnet using infrastructure-as-code providers, webhooks, and other integrations.

Resources and reference

Technical overviews \ \ Get in-depth technical details about Tailscale. Technical reference \ \ Explore reference guides for Tailscale tools and features, including access control policies, command-line interface (Tailscale CLI), API, and best practices for managing your tailnet. Understand access controls, production strategies, security, and key terminology. Resources \ \ Access resources about Tailscale software changes, comparisons with other products, open source community projects, security, privacy, and compliance. Get support \ \ Get support from Tailscale.

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