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Top 17 Go tailscale Projects
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Project mention: Top Open Source Tailscale Alternatives in 2025: A Developer’s Guide to Secure Mesh Networking | dev.to | 2025-07-15
# Download Headscale wget https://github.com/juanfont/headscale/releases/download/v0.26.1/headscale_0.26.1_linux_amd64 chmod +x headscale_0.26.1_linux_amd64 sudo mv headscale_0.26.1_linux_amd64 /usr/local/bin/headscale # Generate config sudo mkdir -p /etc/headscale sudo headscale config generate > /etc/headscale/config.yaml
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InfluxDB
InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.
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Project mention: Ask HN: What are your current programming pet peeves? | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-07-17
The fact that most new programming services and products are oriented towards C-suite types, and not to the people who actually use them.
Most websites looks like [1] or [2] which are full of corporate-friendly buzzwords but don't help me understand what they actually do or how they work. To get a concrete understanding I need to go to github and find repos that actually use the product to even understand what it's for.
[1] https://www.astronomer.io/
[2] https://tailscale.com/
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The tailscale.com/tsnet package in Go [1] is really useful if you've not looked at it before: you can make single binary HTTP or whatever servers that are only exposed inside your tailnet.
Their golink project [2] is a good example (and useful itself), but I've used it to build "peer to peer" comms for one application, and to host an API and Svelte SPA to control some other things in a tailnet.
[1] https://pkg.go.dev/tailscale.com/tsnet
[2] https://github.com/tailscale/golink
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Very useful when combined with TsDProxy: https://github.com/almeidapaulopt/tsdproxy
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I've been using tailscale/tailscale-caddy[1] successfully to serve applications only on my tailnet. It says highly experimental, but it's worked just fine for me.
[1] https://github.com/tailscale/caddy-tailscale
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WireGuard-Guide
WireGuard Guide. Learn all about WireGuard for Networking and in the Cloud (Microsoft Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud).
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Stream
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tailscale-systray
A cross-platform system tray app for managing Tailscale status, exit nodes, and other related functionalities. (by C10udburst)
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tailscale-forward-auth
A basic example of a Tailscale authentication server for Traefik and other proxies
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steampipe-plugin-tailscale
Use SQL to instantly query Tailscale resources. Open source CLI. No DB required.
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SaaSHub
SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives
NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
Go tailscale discussion
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A new generation of Tailscale access controls
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EasyTier – P2P mesh VPN written in Rust using Tokio
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An open source, self-hosted implementation of the Tailscale control server
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Tailscale Is Pretty Useful
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Set up: VPN - Part 1
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A word of caution about Tailscale
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Is HTTPS necessary?
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A note from our sponsor - Stream
getstream.io | 19 Jul 2025
Index
What are some of the best open-source tailscale projects in Go? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | headscale | 29,831 |
| 2 | tailscale | 23,642 |
| 3 | golink | 1,465 |
| 4 | tsdproxy | 1,108 |
| 5 | trayscale | 717 |
| 6 | caddy-tailscale | 605 |
| 7 | WireGuard-Guide | 561 |
| 8 | acp | 235 |
| 9 | tailscale-systray | 200 |
| 10 | tsk | 49 |
| 11 | tailscale-systray | 44 |
| 12 | tailscale-forward-auth | 34 |
| 13 | tailout | 33 |
| 14 | tsdocker | 21 |
| 15 | diet256 | 12 |
| 16 | tailscale-ingress-controller | 9 |
| 17 | steampipe-plugin-tailscale | 5 |
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