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

    authentication
    networking
    2fa
    oauth
    sso
    tailscale
    vpn
    Go
    BSD-3-Clause
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    Updated 7/10/2026
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    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Tailscale provides an easy and secure way to create private WireGuard VPN networks with integrated 2FA and SSO support.
    • Key technologies include WireGuard VPN, Go language, 2FA, OAuth, and SSO, supporting multiple platforms like Linux, Windows, macOS, FreeBSD, and OpenBSD.
    • Strengths include strong security, cross-platform support, and active development; limitations include non-open source GUI wrappers on some platforms.
    • Organizations can deploy Tailscale to simplify secure network access for remote teams, leveraging its easy setup and robust authentication features in production.
    • Ideal use cases are secure remote access, zero-trust networking, and simplifying VPN management for distributed teams and cloud infrastructure.

    About tailscale

    Tailscale

    https://tailscale.com

    Private WireGuard® networks made easy

    Overview

    This repository contains the majority of Tailscale's open source code. Notably, it includes the tailscaled daemon and the tailscale CLI tool. The tailscaled daemon runs on Linux, Windows, macOS, and to varying degrees on FreeBSD and OpenBSD. The Tailscale iOS and Android apps use this repo's code, but this repo doesn't contain the mobile GUI code.

    Other Tailscale repos of note:

    For background on which parts of Tailscale are open source and why, see https://tailscale.com/opensource/.

    Using

    We serve packages for a variety of distros and platforms at https://pkgs.tailscale.com.

    Other clients

    The macOS, iOS, and Windows clients use the code in this repository but additionally include small GUI wrappers. The GUI wrappers on non-open source platforms are themselves not open source.

    Building

    We always require the latest Go release, currently Go 1.23. (While we build releases with our Go fork, its use is not required.)

    go install tailscale.com/cmd/tailscale{,d}

    If you're packaging Tailscale for distribution, use build_dist.sh instead, to burn commit IDs and version info into the binaries:

    ./build_dist.sh tailscale.com/cmd/tailscale
./build_dist.sh tailscale.com/cmd/tailscaled

    If your distro has conventions that preclude the use of build_dist.sh, please do the equivalent of what it does in your distro's way, so that bug reports contain useful version information.

    Bugs

    Please file any issues about this code or the hosted service on the issue tracker.

    Contributing

    PRs welcome! But please file bugs. Commit messages should reference bugs.

    We require Developer Certificate of Origin Signed-off-by lines in commits.

    See commit-messages.md (or skim git log) for our commit message style.

    About Us

    Tailscale is primarily developed by the people at https://github.com/orgs/tailscale/people. For other contributors, see:

    WireGuard is a registered trademark of Jason A. Donenfeld.

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