Tailscale
Zero-config mesh VPN built on WireGuard
Tailscale is a mesh VPN that connects your devices into a secure private network using WireGuard. The client is open source and can be paired with a self-hosted control server.
Key features
- Zero-config mesh networking
- WireGuard-based encryption
- NAT traversal
- MagicDNS
Strengths
- Released under the BSD-3-Clause license
- Easy to set up — beginner-friendly
- Mature project with 34.9k GitHub stars
- Written in Go
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