Go tailscale

Open-source Go projects categorized as tailscale

Top 17 Go tailscale Projects

  1. headscale

    An open source, self-hosted implementation of the Tailscale control server

    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

  2. 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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  3. tailscale

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

    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/

  4. tsdproxy

    Tailscale Docker Proxy

    Project mention: Tailscale Is Pretty Useful | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-03-04

    Very useful when combined with TsDProxy: https://github.com/almeidapaulopt/tsdproxy

  5. trayscale

    An unofficial GUI wrapper around the Tailscale CLI client.

  6. caddy-tailscale

    A highly experimental exploration of integrating Tailscale and Caddy.

    Project mention: Tailscale Is Pretty Useful | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-03-05

    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

  7. WireGuard-Guide

    WireGuard Guide. Learn all about WireGuard for Networking and in the Cloud (Microsoft Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud).

  8. Stream

    Stream - Scalable APIs for Chat, Feeds, Moderation, & Video. Stream helps developers build engaging apps that scale to millions with performant and flexible Chat, Feeds, Moderation, and Video APIs and SDKs powered by a global edge network and enterprise-grade infrastructure.

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  9. acp

    Make terminal personal file transfers as simple as `cp`

  10. tailscale-systray

    Linux port of tailscale system tray menu.

  11. tsk

    Quickly connect to your Kubernetes Cluster with Tailscale (by adamgoose)

  12. tailscale-systray

    A cross-platform system tray app for managing Tailscale status, exit nodes, and other related functionalities. (by C10udburst)

  13. tailscale-forward-auth

    A basic example of a Tailscale authentication server for Traefik and other proxies

  14. tailout

    Spawn an exit node for your tailscale network anywhere

  15. tsdocker

    Docker containers on a Tailnet

  16. diet256

    Coordinated INET256 Network Using QUIC

  17. tailscale-ingress-controller

    A Kubernetes Ingress Controller for Tailscale

  18. steampipe-plugin-tailscale

    Use SQL to instantly query Tailscale resources. Open source CLI. No DB required.

  19. SaaSHub

    SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

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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).

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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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