headscale

What people said

• “There is a well documented opensource alternative to Tailscale - Headscale. The tailscale client is already opensource, Headscale is opensource drop in replacement for the control server which isn't, and fully compatible with Tailscale clients:…”

• “Headscale is an open source alternative, I haven't read the code but it might be a good place to start:”

• “You can use headscale (open source) as the mothership, and all the published clients (AFAIK) support pointing them to an alternative mothership. I set it up, and it worked, but regular Tailscale works so well out-of-the-box that I just used that instead of maintaining headsca…”

• “headscale is an open source alternative to tailscale:”

• “Headscale.”

• “I think it's interesting that all recent contributions to this "open source alternative" are done by a tailscale employee. Wonder what's preventing them from making the official client open-source”

• “> Also, sometimes it seems like I get rate limited on Tailscale. As I understand it if everything is working properly you should end up with a peer to peer wireguard connection after initial connection using tailscales infrastructure. ie, there should be nothing to rate limit. Th…”

• “An open source, self-hosted implementation of the Tailscale control server (345 points)”