Tailscale
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| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | |
| Founded | 2019 |
| Founder | Avery Pennarun David Carney Brad Fitzpatrick  |
| Headquarters | Toronto, Ontario |
Key people |
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| Website | tailscale |
Tailscale Inc. is a software company based in Toronto, Ontario. Tailscale develops a partially open-source software-defined mesh virtual private network (VPN) and a web-based management service.[a][1][2] The company provides a zero config VPN as a service under the same name.[3][better source needed]
| Developer(s) | Tailscale Inc. |
|---|---|
| Stable release | 1.70.0[4]
/ July 17, 2024 |
| Operating system | Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS, tvOS |
| Type | SD-WAN, P2P, VPN, ZTNA |
| License | BSD |
| Website | tailscale |
History
[edit]Founded in 2019 by Google engineers Avery Pennarun, David Crawshaw, David Carney, and Brad Fitzpatrick,[5] the company secured funding of $12 million in a Series A round in November 2020 led by Accel with seed investors, Heavybit and Uncork Capital participating.[6] In May 2022, the company became a unicorn, raising a $100 million Series B round, led by CRV and Insight Partners, with participation from existing investors.[5][7]
The company's name is inspired from a research paper The Tail at Scale[b] published by Google.[8]
Software
[edit]The open-source software acts in combination with the management service to establish peer-to-peer or relayed VPN communication with other clients using the WireGuard protocol.[9][10] Tailscale can open direct connection to the peer using NAT traversal techniques such as STUN or request port forwarding via UPnP IGD, NAT-PMP or PCP.[11] If the software fails to establish direct communication it falls back to using DERP (Designated Encrypted Relay for Packets) protocol relays provided by the company.[12] The IPv4 addresses given to clients are in the carrier-grade NAT reserved space. This was chosen to avoid interference with existing networks.[13] The configuration also allows routing of traffic to networks behind the client on some clients.
Supported platforms
[edit]The Tailscale client software supports a number of operating systems and embedded software systems,[14] including:
A Kubernetes operator[17] and Docker images[18] are also available.
See also
[edit]Notes
[edit]- ^ Although Tailscale sells VPN services, it is not a VPN service in the typical sense that is aimed at censorship bypasses,[citation needed] but at providing mesh networking
- ^ Dean, Jeffrey; André Barroso, Luiz. "The Tail at Scale". Google. Archived from the original on 14 December 2021. Retrieved 9 March 2021.
References
[edit]- ^ Rogers, Sarah (2021-09-09). "Tailscale VPN review". TechRadar. Archived from the original on 19 September 2021. Retrieved 2022-04-13.
- ^ Vaughan-Nichols, Steven. "Tailscale launches Wireguard-secured mesh network". ZDNet. Archived from the original on 23 February 2023. Retrieved 2022-04-13.
- ^ Hanselman, Scott. "Using Tailscale on Windows to network more easily with WSL2 and Visual Studio Code". www.hanselman.com. Archived from the original on 2014-08-09. Retrieved 2021-02-01.
- ^ "Tailscale changelog"
- ^ a b Kyle, Wiggers (5 May 2022). "Tailscale lands $100 million to 'transform' enterprise VPNs with mesh technology". TechCrunch. Archived from the original on 23 February 2023.
- ^ Dillet, Romain (10 November 2020). "Tailscale raises $12 million for its WireGuard-based corporate VPN". TechCrunch. Archived from the original on 23 February 2023. Retrieved 2021-02-01.
- ^ Tailscale (4 May 2022). "Tailscale raises $100M… to fix the Internet". Tailscale. Archived from the original on 6 May 2022. Retrieved 2022-05-05.
- ^ Security Cryptography Whatever: Tailscale with Avery Pennarun & Brad Fitzpatrick. 15 Jan 2022. Event occurs at 45m53s. Archived from the original on 23 February 2023. Retrieved 23 February 2023 – via archive.org.
{{cite AV media}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ Morgan, Ethel. "Tailscale". ethulhu.co.uk. Archived from the original on 23 February 2023. Retrieved 2021-02-01.
- ^ "What is Tailscale? · Tailscale Docs". Tailscale. Retrieved 2024-08-17.
- ^ "Troubleshooting device connectivity · Tailscale Docs". Tailscale. Retrieved 2024-08-17.
- ^ "Terminology and concepts · Tailscale Docs". Tailscale. Retrieved 2024-08-17.
- ^ "IP pool · Tailscale Docs". Tailscale. Retrieved 2024-08-17.
- ^ "Download · Tailscale". tailscale.com. Retrieved 2024-03-07.
- ^ Tailscale. "Access Synology NAS from anywhere". Tailscale. Retrieved 2024-03-07.
- ^ "QNAP". tailscale.com. Retrieved 2024-03-07.
- ^ Tailscale. "Kubernetes operator". Tailscale. Retrieved 2024-03-07.
- ^ "Contain your excitement: A deep dive into using Tailscale with Docker". tailscale.com. Retrieved 2024-03-07.