bash_cli_zt VS headscale

or my personal favorit, with a colletion of bash scripts: https://github.com/thedunston/bash_cli_zt

Basically, you create your own moons and then block the IPs of the ZT servers. Then use your own tools to manage nodes or my bash_cli_zt scripts: https://github.com/thedunston/bash_cli_zt or the ZTN CUI project's web interface: https://github.com/key-networks/ztncui-aio

https://github.com/thedunston/bash_cli_zt I hope someone finds this useful. I'm always on the cli in Linux so thought I'd play around with creating a controller using bash. I like ztncui, but like the cli a lot and wanted to have the ACL editing all in one place.

headscale - Open source implementation of Tailscale control server. Can be used with Tailscale's official open source client. Written in Go.

Headscale

You can always use headscale. https://github.com/juanfont/headscale

One more thing, you can host Tailscale Control Server yourself if you want, which is a plus.

https://github.com/juanfont/headscale not to mention but Tailscale has a very good culture, I’m sure they would give notice if they pull the rug. There are also many alternatives such as Zerotier and more are showing up every day and open source options.

How about self-hosted Tailscale, known as Headscale

Would be nice if https://github.com/juanfont/headscale can be managed by the Tailscale operator.

You can run your own "head scale" control server and use their clients with it: https://github.com/juanfont/headscale

Requires a lot more setup, but it is an option. I've been self-hosting headscale for some time and it is quite stable.

There's an alternative to tailscale service called headscale https://github.com/juanfont/headscale (CLI only server compatible with official tailscale clients)