My main use case for Tailscale is connecting to company internal systems due to GDPR requirements. The company is located in Germany with private servers in Germany, and I stay in the UK, so I use it to connect a point-to-site VPN connection from my home laptop to the private servers in Germany. I use Tailscale to create a secure connection.

Apart from connecting to the internal systems, my main use case also provides a very nice interface with the CI pipeline. I connect Tailscale with my CI on GitHub Actions to allow me to do automatic deployments through the company's internal systems.

The best features Tailscale offers are really easy usability and a straightforward user experience. It is a one-click install where you select your servers that you want to connect to. The whole integration with GitHub Actions for CI is pretty good, and I use it a lot, so I am very confident in that.

The GitHub Actions integration stands out for me because it is not every day you see a seamless tool that can allow you to perform CI builds on private networks. I and the company have tried other options, and it was difficult, but Tailscale provided their action script, documentation, and simple authentication mechanisms using OIDC on GitHub Actions. Everything was straightforward to set up.

Tailscale has positively impacted my organization by allowing us to speed up development without worrying about GDPR restrictions. One of the things about GDPR restrictions is that we cannot allow data to leave the EU region or Germany. It was very easy for us to integrate GitHub with the whole CI pipeline, and it was a very positive impact. It allowed us to eliminate the stress for our CI and the stress of accessing internal systems from far away. So, it allowed us to focus on the development of the application part rather than struggling with how we are going to get this code deployed on certain servers while still following GDPR restrictions.

Tailscale could be improved in different ways. I have not really found any problem with it so far. It pretty much solved the problems of other VPN clients that we have been trying. If Tailscale provided a way to integrate with native cloud providers, such as AWS or other cloud platforms, it could be a very nice thing. For example, I want to connect my EC2 instance from AWS over my private Tailscale network. It could be a nice feature so I do not have to stress about the AWS VPC and all that. I could probably just port it over to my Tailscale network. I do not think they have a feature like that, but that would be fine.

I rate Tailscale an eight because I do not think it has any native cloud support with AWS tools such as EC2, GCP, and Azure. If they can find a way to do that, then it would be fine. One of the things that would actually make more sense is if Tailscale could find a way for us to use serverless compute over private networks. Private server functions or serverless functions probably would not be executed on non-EU regions. That is something I am thinking about.

I have been working in my current field professionally for four or five years.

Tailscale's scalability is good. It is scalable in the sense that we could add as many servers as we want to the network without any downtime from Tailscale. It is pretty fast. Even though I am making a request to the network, the extra hops are pretty much invaluable for network speed. I still get the best speed as possible even though the amount of network hops is two or three. I have to first make a connection to the Tailscale network and then from the Tailscale network to the actual underlying server. Apart from all of that, it is still pretty good. I would say it is really scalable, and I do not think I have ever experienced any downtime with Tailscale.

I have not really had any issues with customer support. I have not really contacted them. If the application is as fine as this, then the customer support should also be good.

Before I joined the company, there were several solutions being employed. The company used Teleport and there were a lot of VPN alternatives. There was Twingate and Teleport. We used Teleport before. When I joined the company, we brainstormed together, and I think that was one of the first tasks we did. We found a suitable solution that could handle all this easily, and Tailscale was the one that we picked. We figured out that it was very good.

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that pricing was relatively fine. It had a generous free tier, and the pricing was okay. It is good for the amount of servers that we have. Setup cost was not much; it basically was zero setup cost. We probably just did it ourselves. The software was straightforward. We only had to pay for the amount of servers that were going to be able to enter the network. The company handled the licensing, I am not entirely sure about all the details.

We evaluated other options before deciding on Tailscale. We tried Twingate, and I do not remember what all the others were that they were using before. There was this NordVPN client that we could use to connect our servers together, but it was not really developer-friendly. There was Zscaler; we tried to use Zscaler, but it did not really get into what we wanted. They were all good options, but it was not what we wanted. We wanted developer-friendly documentation, access to the CI pipeline build, point-to-site VPN connections, and one-click install. I just install Tailscale, connect the servers, and that is all. I do not want to always be starting up the VPN client and finding my servers and trying to make that connection to them. In my system, I am always automatically connected to that network. Tailscale just provided everything that we needed.

My advice to others looking into using Tailscale is to definitely try it out because it is going to really abstract away a lot of network problems, especially when it comes to private networks, private systems, or internal systems in general. It is really going to abstract away a lot of the complexities. I rate this product an eight overall.

Tailscale provides us with the opportunity to have a work network. Since we are teleworking, we need to be able to have an internal data center without having to expose it externally to the Internet.

Tailscale's simplicity stands out as a key advantage. Our department has several profiles including developers, system architects, and CTOs, which allows us all to work on our own machines. We have a wide variety of people who work with Windows and Linux operating systems, and we can connect to our private network from a terminal. These services are hosted on a data center server and are connected in Docker. Tailscale's wide variety allows us to deploy the services both in Kubernetes clusters and directly on Linux server hosts, as well as in Docker containers, which lets us have a shared resource network without having to create complicated network routing rules. It even allows us to have our own DNS to redirect addresses that we select.

The great ease of being able to interconnect people who might not have a technical profile stands out as an advantage my team gets from using Tailscale for this type of integration and resource management. In the past, we used OpenVPN or Fortinet services, and with just a small installer, it is very easy and simple for employees to use the connection.

The best features that Tailscale offers are ease of use, ease of connection, and a fairly generous connection plan. It allows us to apply ACL policies, which is very beneficial. We do not need to add something extra to define access permissions per user, and that is vital at an organizational level. The console allows you to connect, and there is another interesting feature where you can invite users from other Tailscale networks, which is quite useful.

The ACL is very easy to understand and not as complex as older WireGuard systems. We can create IP ranges or define what kind of people or users can access which resources, which gives us a great deal of peace of mind about our infrastructure.

The most positive impact Tailscale has had on my organization is significant. While working with different providers such as AWS, Azure, or even on-premise, we found that having a single solution to interconnect all those different types of architectures was a complete challenge. Each provider gives its own VPN option, but it is not a scalable, standard, or universal solution. We started using WireGuard to conduct studies of this type, but maintenance became costly, and we always depended on having at least one exposed node to handle the routing or network rules. With Tailscale, the picture changed completely because it allows us, in a simple and native way, to install this type of service, even bypassing complex configurations. We have had situations where we have connection points through CGNAT with 3G routers, and Tailscale provides a solution that is quick, simple, and with very effective speeds, which has pleasantly surprised us.

I am currently testing the ability to expose to the WAN certain services that we select, which is in beta. I imagine it is still in development, but from the tests we have done, the connection outward is quite slow, which is a point of curiosity, and I hope that aspect can be improved.

At a basic level, Tailscale could improve the interface to enhance the user experience. Another potential improvement would be to provide Internet exit nodes that are faster. I understand that Tailscale is not a CDN as such, but they could try to achieve some technique that at least provides connections of ten megabytes per second, for example.

Tailscale uses certain flags, such as accepting routes or accepting DNS when logging in, which could be improved. For people who are technical, it is not a problem, but for those who are not as technical, providing this information or presenting it to the user in a simpler way so they understand what they are enabling or disabling could be beneficial.

I have been working with Tailscale for about four years personally for my personal platform, and then I have been using it professionally for around two years.

I consider Tailscale to be a stable solution. There are other services that I am curious to use because I do not know how they work, but for what we use it for—interconnection and networks—it is very stable.

My experience with Tailscale's scalability is optimal and very good. It is incredible that it can be connected on so many platforms, such as Docker, clouds, and operating systems.

Before Tailscale, we used OpenVPN, then WireGuard, and we also used Fortinet. Tailscale encompasses a very good balance for maintaining our own infrastructure.

I have been one of the people who, professionally when I worked at another company, proposed this solution. It seems too novel at first, and it appears that it may not be reliable. Fortunately, at the company I am currently at, they understand the essence of this product or service, which really allows us to save enormous amounts of time in onboarding users, configurations, and removing access quickly and safely. That is the main thing because when we looked at other solutions such as ZeroTier or WireGuard itself, they did not guarantee automatic refresh. With Tailscale, we do see that even the admin panel is very simple, even for non-technical people. It has reduced the complexity of onboarding and implementation by approximately sixty to seventy percent in time, for certain.

I have noticed a return on investment from using Tailscale, particularly in time. It has been something around sixty to seventy percent much less time. As for costs, even though I do not handle them, I understand that this reduces costs first because of the time that is spent, and second, in terms of infrastructure requirements, which are minimal. Previously, networks with FortiGate were used, and that forced us to spend on hardware. With Tailscale, that type of investment is not necessary.

Before choosing Tailscale, I evaluated other options, and there are many Tailscale forks, but we went directly with this solution because it is the Enterprise version.

Tailscale offers a solution that is already mature, proven and tested, and secure, where you can save costs and maintain a small, medium, or even large infrastructure. I would really appreciate the possibility that Tailnets, instead of giving a random name, would allow us to choose a name and type it. I can rename a Tailnet that it offers directly, but it does not let us write our own, and it would be beneficial if at some point this could be done. I would rate this product and service highly.

I have been using Tailscale for approximately one to one and a half years for one of my projects. My main use case for Tailscale during that project was connecting different GCP GKE clusters. I had different production, staging, and testing clusters, and we wanted a way to easily connect to any of the clusters. Tailscale allowed us to easily access any of the clusters we wanted from a local system.

I chose Tailscale for this setup because I was searching for different projects to connect different clusters, and I found Tailscale online. There were quite good reviews about Tailscale, which was one of the reasons I chose it to connect different clusters. Tailscale is quite easy to deploy and get started with.

The setup process and documentation for Tailscale stood out to me because the documentation is quite good and the setup is quite easy. You just need to install a single binary on your system and you are ready to go. You can easily connect to any of the systems that you want.

The best features Tailscale offers for me are how easily we can connect to different clusters and different systems. If I have a system somewhere around the globe and I want to connect directly from my local system, it is quite easy. I just need to have Tailscale binary on my system, and I can connect to that specific system.

I did not face any issues with latency or connection reliability while using Tailscale; it was quite seamless for me. Connecting was quite easy.

I discovered some ACL features while exploring Tailscale later on, and I think they are quite good. We can configure some IPs through which we can connect, and I think that is one of the good features Tailscale has.

I think Tailscale is quite good for me as I am not a power user. I have mostly used it for basic use cases, and I feel that nothing is missing for me. If there were any power users who have used Tailscale extensively, they might give some feedback on what can be improved upon, but for me, it was good and suitable. I cannot think of anything that needs to be improved upon.

I have been working in my current field for more than four years.

Tailscale is stable.

Regarding Tailscale's scalability, we did not use it at a large scale since our team is small, but I think it is good.

Tailscale customer support is good.

I did not previously use a different solution because we directly went with Tailscale. We did not have any other solution before that.

My main use case for Tailscale during that project was mostly about connecting different GCP GKE clusters. I had different production, staging, and testing clusters, and we wanted a way through which we could easily connect to any of the clusters. Tailscale allowed us to easily access any of the clusters we wanted from a local system.

The time saved by using Tailscale is significant because earlier, when we wanted to connect different clusters, we used to run GCP commands to connect them. With Tailscale, it was quite easy. We were still running the command, but we did not need the specific command anymore because it was just Tailscale binary, and it was quite easy to connect to any of the clusters we wanted. We have seen a return on investment from Tailscale since it was a time-saving tool for us. We did not need different GCP commands to connect to different clusters; it was just a single Tailscale binary through which we were connecting, making it a time-saving solution.

My experience with pricing, setup costs, and licensing for Tailscale is that since our team is quite small, about ten people, we did not take any license and the cost was zero for us because we were using Tailscale's open-source version.

Before choosing Tailscale, I thought about evaluating other options, but there was another tool called WireGuard, which Tailscale is based upon. I did not look for any other tool further because I felt that Tailscale was good and would do my job.

I advise others looking into using Tailscale to go for the documentation and just read over the things, as it is quite easy to set up. I think anyone can set up Tailscale. Tailscale is a good tool to use, and it is quite friendly without hassle to set it up. My rating for this review is nine out of ten.

My main use case for Tailscale is access to internal resources and supporting clients, having replaced two different VPN products I was using previously.

I have a number of applications that are running within my network. I have used the split DNS for accessing internal resources or supporting clients.

Using split DNS with Tailscale has helped me manage access and support my clients by being able to use my internal DNS servers easily within the network without needing to have full tunnel connections. It has worked great for exposing particular applications to clients who are shared to particular nodes on my tailnet.

The best feature Tailscale offers is the ease of use for managing WireGuard and the fact that the key management is completely transparent, both for the WireGuard tunnel connection and for the SSH functionality.

The transparent key management and SSH functionality have benefited me by completely eliminating a manual, tedious step of needing to manage keys, which felt like a significant security risk that something could go wrong in the key management process. With Tailscale, it just happens and works.

Tailscale has positively impacted my organization and consulting work by making remote connections easy, significantly reducing the friction and making this very reliable, even behind difficult networks with CGNAT or other situations that make establishing connections difficult using other means.

I think if there was a streamlined mechanism to self-host the control plane, that would be a significant help in certain regulatory environments where customers feel unsure about having an external party control authentication onto the tailnet. Even with Tailnet Lock, there is still a concern that there are parts of the control plane that are opaque.

I have been using Tailscale since September of last year.

Tailscale is stable.

I have not hit the limits of Tailscale's scalability, which works well under automation and infrastructure as code. It is scalable from the perspective I am able to see.

I have not had much of a need to interact with customer support, but the only thing that I have used it for is to establish a custom OIDC identity provider, and the response felt quick and professional.

I previously used self-hosted WireGuard and OpenVPN connections because they had difficulty getting through in particular CGNAT connections, and that was the initial impetus for looking at Tailscale.

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing was straightforward and seemed fair for the value that the product provides.

My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.

I do not have any metrics to share. Qualitatively, it definitely feels as though time troubleshooting connectivity has decreased.

Support issues related to connectivity have dropped by about half, and while I do not have an exact measure, the amount of time spent working on connectivity issues has decreased significantly.

I did not purchase Tailscale through the AWS Marketplace.

I also evaluated Twingate and ZeroTier before choosing Tailscale.

My advice to others looking into using Tailscale is to give it a try and make sure that it suits your needs, but overall, it feels like a stable product that greatly simplifies VPN and remote connectivity needs. I would rate this product a nine out of ten.

I use Tailscale to securely access remote Linux servers for tasks like SSH and system management without exposing services to the public internet. I also access a Linux server with the help of the RDP protocol.

I mainly use Tailscale to securely connect device to device, and it provides authentication and access control between multiple machines, which I found very helpful.

When I mention authentication and access control, it allowed me to access servers from anywhere without worrying about network restrictions and reduced the time spent on setup and troubleshooting.

The biggest benefit of Tailscale is simplicity; it is quick to set up and provides a stable and secure connection. I can set it up with only one command without any manual configuration, which is where I think it is very helpful.

Tailscale has improved remote access efficiency and reduced the complexity of managing secure connections across systems, which is the main point from my perspective.

The only drawback I found is that the subnet routing option in Tailscale is too advanced and sometimes requires advanced networking concepts. A person needs to fully understand it to configure it properly.

I have been using Tailscale for several months from a different account to access remote servers and to test connectivity between systems.

I chose Tailscale because it simplifies VPN setup, and I did not have to deal with port forwarding or complex firewall configurations, which saved a lot of time for me.

When I needed to access a remote Linux server from a different network, instead of configuring port forwarding or a traditional VPN, I used Tailscale to connect securely and directly. It allowed me to perform tasks like SSH access and system checks without exposing the server publicly. I would rate this product a 10 out of 10.

I have been using Tailscale for three to four years now for personal use and for my volunteer and business work.

My main use case for Tailscale is maintaining my personal network that I use for family and friends. It is easy to set up on pretty much any device.

I use it for getting around port forwarding restrictions. For example, if I have a network on my school computer that I cannot port forward from, I can plug a VPN into it and port forward onto the VPN.

Tailscale has been beneficial for hosting game servers with friends online. It is useful for situations where you need to get around firewalls and restrictions. You need a VPN to secure your networking because many of these game servers do not have encryption by default when they are small games. It is helpful to be able to set that up.

The best features Tailscale offers include ease of startup. Once you log in on your Google account, you can add other people's Google accounts or use emails if they do not have one. There are all sorts of options available. I used it a while ago to set up, so I am not sure how the current setup options are, but it is very useful in that aspect.

Tailscale has been very helpful for setting up a VPN network in various locations when you might not have the time to set up port forwarding or configure servers on each end. When you just want something quick and ready to go, it is the solution for you. It is really good for that.

This quick setup with Tailscale has saved me probably days of work that I would have spent learning how to configure traditional VPN solutions, more traditional solutions like WireGuard, where I would have had to learn their entire configuration process and it would have taken days just to set that up. After that, I would have had to replicate it on every machine I use.

I think Tailscale can be improved by enhancing the free side of things. It is really useful for people who are students or personal users who are not business users to keep going with the free version because it expands your user base. If you can get people to realize that this is actually a good product, they will be willing to pay for the paid version.

The process of adding other users with their Google accounts or emails was challenging at first when I was figuring out how to add other emails. I thought I would have to sign in on my Google account each time, but once I discovered that you could invite people, that was when it really took off.

My advice for others looking into using Tailscale is to make sure it has the features you need for the payment plan you are willing to go for. There are multiple payment plans, and if you want more users or more devices, you have to pay more, but make sure it has what you need for the payment you are willing to offer.

I mainly use Tailscale for remote access to my services. I have my whole server setup at home, which is a Proxmox cluster where I have a couple of services running on the backend, and I want to access those services remotely such as websites, some Docker containers, and some stacks. I install Tailscale on those applications so that I can access them remotely from my PC, whether at home or somewhere else. I turn on Tailscale and use it.

I have a mixed environment in my backend, which includes a couple of Windows VMs, all my servers being Linux-based, my Mac environment, my iPhone, and my MacBook that I bring outside, so I install Tailscale on those devices. I also have my router in pfSense where I install Tailscale as well.

I use Tailscale mostly on-premises to access all of my services. I could deploy it on cloud services such as AWS or Azure, but I already have my own environment, so everything is just within the premise.

I find troubleshooting to be very easy with Tailscale, as I turn it on everywhere I go, and I can access my services remotely and securely without worrying about a certificate or anything. Another advantage of Tailscale is that sometimes I need to be physically at home to troubleshoot or to do something for myself or for my business. Tailscale has this service called Exit Node, so when I am outside, I turn on Tailscale and enable the Exit Node. I install this in two devices in my home lab, allowing me to route my network through those devices even if I am physically outside, which means other companies see me staying at home doing my work.

MagicDNS is really good because I do not have to remember the IP address of all of my devices or services, and I also use split DNS as well, where some of the networking requests actually go through my pfSense router and bounce to some of the local devices that I have here.

One thing I want Tailscale to improve is their user interface for Arch Linux, which is one of the devices I have that I installed Tailscale on, but they do not have the native package with full features, a capability I really want them to develop. Another enhancement would be to allow a graphical interface for more power users. Sometimes I want to run things on the website or user interface, so I wish to control advanced access control lists with a good user interface, and that would really be helpful.

I have been using Tailscale for two years, and it has been going great.

Tailscale has been very stable in my experience, with no issues so far. I would suggest for other users that when you want to upgrade the service or the app for security reasons, sometimes Tailscale app, especially on iOS, might break, so it is better to see any updates and maybe wait for a couple of days for feedback before upgrading the apps.

Tailscale's scalability seems very good, as I install it and currently have around twenty or thirty apps running on my web admin in Tailscale. I believe Tailscale uses AWS services as a base, so I think they have no issues scaling up the services.

So far, I do not have any issues with Tailscale. If I do, I go to Reddit, which I think is one of the official channels for them, and there are a lot of Tailscale staff that respond in that channel, allowing me to ask questions there.

I had been using another service before, which is WireGuard, but the thing for WireGuard is that I had to open ports on my router to be able to use it remotely. Tailscale uses WireGuard technology, and the speed is the same, but the setup for Tailscale is very easy, which is a very good point.

Before Tailscale, I used WireGuard, but I had to open a hole in my firewall for port forwarding. After finding out that Tailscale is a very easy mesh P2P network, I completely switched to Tailscale because it is very easy.

I think Tailscale is very easy to use, and that is the best thing that I would add here.

I find the process of installing Tailscale on all those different devices fairly easy, where I just run a command, a CLI command, to install it. There are two ways: I either find the command by adding the device from Tailscale user interface, or I just run the command directly on the device, and they will give me a link to click to activate the device. However, one thing that I want to add for Tailscale is that sometimes I need a very simple user interface to control my services. Most of my devices can install it and have a native setup with a user interface, but I have Arch Linux on one PC, and I could not find the applications from Tailscale that natively support that app.

I notice a lot of time saved with Tailscale because it is very easy to set up, and I think it saves around forty percent of the time to turn on and manage my remote environment. Everything is pretty smooth.

Before choosing Tailscale, I evaluated other options such as Cloudflare, Cloudflare Zero Trust, and some services such as Headscale as well. However, when I bumped into Tailscale and tried it, it hooked me right away, primarily for its remote access, easy setup, and multi-environment support.

Tailscale has been helping my organization a lot, primarily for security, as I do not have to open up any port in my router, which is really helpful. There are other options to access my services and applications remotely, such as Cloudflare Tunnel, but that again exposes risk to the public. Even with their zero trust network, it still feels somewhat risky. However, for Tailscale, everything is encrypted in the mesh network, the speed is really good, and I really appreciate that. Tailscale also offers it for free for three users and up to one hundred applications or nodes, and I am still using that, which is really good. I think for others, if they want to try Tailscale, they can register for free first and try it out; there is no harm in that.

I am still using the free tier of Tailscale, but I have a lot of services under it. Pricing seems good because they offer, as I mentioned, up to three users and one hundred apps or services for free, so I am still trying it out, and the service and the speed are pretty good.

I recommend that Tailscale users take advantage of the offering of a free tier and try it first. I give this product a review rating of eight out of ten.

My main use case for Tailscale is mesh networking, wherein prior to Tailscale, especially on personal infrastructure, I needed to have a VPN setup that required port forwarding enabled from my ISP side. The main issue with that is that mostly ISPs do not provide static IP addresses as well as port forwarding on personal plans. The most important feature I have seen in Tailscale is its use of NAT traversal to enable internal network access to the outside world in a secure, peer-to-peer manner. Essentially, it replicates the corporate IT VPN infrastructure at a smaller scale, allowing anyone without much technical know-how to install and configure Tailscale. For example, if you want to connect to your home server and route all your traffic through it, that can be achieved simply by using the exit node option in Tailscale, which I find really impressive.

Furthermore, the Magic MagicDNS feature allows me to associate domain names with services running on each individual Docker container in my home lab, enabling access to them as dedicated websites within the Tailnet. If I disconnect from the Tailnet, I cannot access these services, adding another layer of security. I use TSD-Proxy for this, which is an add-on endorsed by Tailscale.

On the corporate side related to my project with Alliance, I have used Tailscale to mimic the corporate IT environment where everything is accessible only within the intranet, not the outside world.

During COVID-19, I collaborated with friends from different locations, one of whom was in the Gulf while I was in India. There was a scenario where I needed a personal VPN connected to a server in the Gulf to perform government-related tasks. My friend was not very technical, primarily being in commerce, but by explaining how to install Tailscale and enabling his laptop to act as a server and an exit node, I was able to get a seamless VPN connection without going through the ISP for a static IP or port forwarding, just one click. This was a very impactful personal use case.

On an enterprise level, I previously mentioned my project with Alliance, where the judges were really impressed with the mesh-to-mesh VPN demonstration that did not require much configuration. They even expressed interest in implementing it at a corporate level. Additionally, as mentioned, with Docker containers, there are various add-ons available. For an efficient setup, I recommend using TSD-Proxy alongside Docker containers, allowing for better management of exit nodes and accessibility settings based on flags set during container creation.

Tailscale has positively impacted my organization by enabling rapid prototyping, especially with junior teams collaborating from various locations. When accessing remote machines over SSH or protocols like RSTP for CCTV cameras, Tailscale allows us to establish a mesh VPN with just a few clicks. Otherwise, configuring a VPN server by ourselves would involve OpenVPN or WireGuard and obtaining permissions from ISPs, a considerable hassle, particularly when some team members are not technical, such as project managers. Tailscale has simplified collaboration significantly at the organizational level.

MagicDNS is one standout feature, along with role access control (ACLs) that enhances the security of my Tailnet. Plus, there is the usual multi-factor authentication, the ability to run exit nodes, and having one of my nodes function as a subnet router, allowing access to my internal LAN from the outside without hassle. Those are a lot of features. Moreover, you do not really need in-depth security knowledge to get started with Tailscale, and since it is an open-source project audited by many people globally, you can trust its foundation. Tailscale is based on WireGuard, a very secure protocol for VPNs.

With MagicDNS, I find it helps tremendously as I run multiple containers, making it hard to remember all the IP addresses. MagicDNS simplifies this by letting me configure domain names, enabling seamless access to web pages or services within my Tailnet in a short time. Secondly, ACLs help in deciding the permissions for exit nodes, allowing access only to specific resources they need, streamlining the process. For everything else, I can set the appropriate permissions in the ACL list without needing to be a network analyst.

Regarding improvements for Tailscale, it abstracts its internal workings from the end user, which is great for those not familiar with networking. However, I would appreciate a graphical view, perhaps through something Grafana, displaying how packets are transmitted, involved intermediaries, and current active nodes. This kind of feature would enhance user experience and technical awareness. A developer's mode versus a normal user mode could be beneficial, in my opinion.

I do not have any additional thoughts on the needed improvements besides those already mentioned.

I have been using Tailscale for almost two to three years.

Tailscale is stable; it has never given me downtime on their side, and if there is downtime, it is due to issues on our side, not from Tailscale.

Tailscale's scalability is impressive due to the available Docker images, offering numerous options across platforms. Scalability is not a concern at all, and platforms like Kubernetes can also utilize it, making it highly adaptable.

In terms of customer support, the product is so good that personally, I never needed to use customer support, although the networking team at my organization may have. However, for my use case, I have not had to reach out for support because everything is so seamless. Even hobbyists can find valuable information shared voluntarily in subreddits, so with such a quality product, individual customer support needs diminish significantly.

Before Tailscale, we used an OpenVPN server, but due to networking constraints and the difficulty in managing credentials among individual users or junior developers connecting from different locations, we opted for Tailscale and have been very satisfied with it.

I did not evaluate other options prior to choosing Tailscale; I had heard great opinions online, which made me fixated on it, and I am convinced I made the right choice since it has served me well for a long time now.

Since using Tailscale, we save time through the enhanced rapid prototyping it enables. Cost savings are also notable, especially personally, as static IPs or port forwarding often result in additional charges from ISPs. For someone interested in IT or as a hobbyist, Tailscale is a great option to explore VPN dynamics at an individual level. Furthermore, thanks to Tailscale, corporate companies no longer need to provide static IP or port forwarding capabilities for employees, which translates into significant savings, especially for larger companies with many employees.

I advise others considering Tailscale to go for it if their needs align with ours. There is no better option than this. Corporate VPN setups tend to be overly complex, and for small to medium enterprises, Tailscale is precisely what is needed. It is just great; go for it.