tailscale-control vs headscale

tailscale-control

A Decky plugin to control Tailscale, while staying in Gaming mode. (by saumya-banthia)

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An open source, self-hosted implementation of the Tailscale control server (by juanfont)

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tailscale-control		headscale
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1	Mentions	222
41	Stars	20,212
-	Growth	-
8.3	Activity	9.3
2 months ago	Latest Commit	about 7 hours ago
TypeScript	Language	Go
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License	License	BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License

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tailscale-control

Posts with mentions or reviews of tailscale-control. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-16.

Don't sleep on Tailscale, it is borderline magical.
5 projects | /r/SteamDeck | 16 Apr 2023

Once installed, Tailscale is connected all the time. I did not notice any performance impacts, but if you're worried, you can install a decky plugin called Tailscale Control which will allow you to manually turn on Tailscale on Steam Deck only when you need it.

headscale

Posts with mentions or reviews of headscale. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-30.

List of ngrok/Cloudflare Tunnel alternatives and other tunneling software and services. Focus on self-hosting.
61 projects | dev.to | 30 Apr 2024

headscale - Open source implementation of Tailscale control server. Can be used with Tailscale's official open source client. Written in Go.
Building a Managed Service Provider Business With Open Source
14 projects | dev.to | 4 Apr 2024

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Russia has started indiscriminately blocking all OpenVPN/WireGuard connections
12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Jan 2024

You can always use headscale. https://github.com/juanfont/headscale
Securely Accessing Private AWS Resources from GitHub Actions with TailScale
3 projects | dev.to | 14 Dec 2023

One more thing, you can host Tailscale Control Server yourself if you want, which is a plus.
A word of caution about Tailscale
12 projects | /r/selfhosted | 9 Dec 2023

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.
Is HTTPS necessary?
1 project | /r/Tailscale | 8 Dec 2023
Connecting several hundreds IoT (raspberry pi's) devices with a VPN
3 projects | /r/VPN | 7 Dec 2023

How about self-hosted Tailscale, known as Headscale
Tailscale Kubernetes Operator
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 31 Oct 2023

Would be nice if https://github.com/juanfont/headscale can be managed by the Tailscale operator.
Mullvad on Tailscale: Privately browse the web
3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Sep 2023

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.
Netbirdio/netbird: Connect devices into a single private WireGuard mesh network
4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Aug 2023

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

What are some alternatives?

When comparing tailscale-control and headscale you can also consider the following projects:

chiaki4deck - Fork of Chiaki (Open Source Playstation Remote Play) with Enhancements for Steam Deck and Documentation around how to use

tailscale - The easiest, most secure way to use WireGuard and 2FA.

podsync - Turn YouTube or Vimeo channels, users, or playlists into podcast feeds

Netmaker - Netmaker makes networks with WireGuard. Netmaker automates fast, secure, and distributed virtual networks.

zero-ui - ZeroUI - ZeroTier Controller Web UI - is a web user interface for a self-hosted ZeroTier network controller.

netbird - Connect your devices into a single secure private WireGuard®-based mesh network with SSO/MFA and simple access controls.

ZeroTier - A Smart Ethernet Switch for Earth

Nebula - A scalable overlay networking tool with a focus on performance, simplicity and security

firezone - Open-source VPN server and egress firewall for Linux built on WireGuard. Firezone is easy to set up (all dependencies are bundled thanks to Chef Omnibus), secure, performant, and self hostable.

innernet - A private network system that uses WireGuard under the hood.

docker-cloudflare-ddns - A small amd64/ARM/ARM64 Docker image that allows you to use CloudFlare as a DDNS / DynDNS Provider.

cloudflared - Cloudflare Tunnel client (formerly Argo Tunnel)