This repository provides examples of using Tailscale in a sidecar configuration within Docker, specifically for integrating Tailscale with various services. By leveraging Tailscale's secure networking capabilities, these examples demonstrate how to seamlessly route traffic through Tailscale while maintaining service functionality and security.
The provided configurations showcase how to set up Tailscale alongside Docker services, with a focus on ensuring connectivity, security, and ease of deployment. The examples include configurations for Tailscale authentication, state management, and service routing.
If you would like to add your own config, you can use the service-template or simply open an issue.
- ScaleTail - Tailscale Docker Sidecar Configuration Examples
- Tailscale Docker sidecar guide and Serve/Funnel walkthroughs on the official Tailscale YouTube channel pair well with these examples.
- The Tailscale Docker guide, Serve docs, and Funnel docs cover the underlying features without duplicating content here.
| 🌐 Service | 📝 Description | 🔗 Link |
|---|---|---|
| 🛡️ AdGuard Home | Network-wide software for blocking ads and tracking. | Details |
| 🔄 AdGuardHome Sync | A tool for syncing configuration across multiple AdGuard Home instances. | Details |
| 🌐 Caddy | Caddy is an extensible server platform that uses TLS by default. | Details |
| 🌐 DDNS Updater | A self-hosted solution to keep DNS A/AAAA records updated automatically. | Details |
| 🔍 Nessus | A powerful vulnerability scanner with a free Essentials model for home use. | Details |
| 🗃️ Netbox | NetBox is the leading solution for modeling and documenting modern networks. | Details |
| 🧩 Pi-hole | A network-level ad blocker that acts as a DNS sinkhole. | Details |
| 🆔 Pocket ID | A self-hosted decentralized identity (OIDC) solution for secure authentication. | Details |
| 🔒 Technitium DNS | An open-source DNS server that can be used for self-hosted DNS services. | Details |
| 🌐 Traefik | A modern reverse proxy and load balancer for microservices. | Details |
| 🚀 Tailscale Exit Node | Configure a device to act as an exit node for your Tailscale network. | Details |
| 🎥 Service | 📝 Description | 🔗 Link |
|---|---|---|
| 🎧 Audiobookshelf | A self-hosted audiobook and podcast server with multi-user support and playback syncing. | Details |
| 🎥 Bazarr | A companion tool to Radarr and Sonarr for managing subtitles. | Details |
| 📚 BookLore | A self-hosted application for managing and reading books. | Details |
| 🎮 Hytale | A self-hosted Hytale game server. | Details |
| 🖼️ Immich | A self-hosted Google Photos alternative with face recognition and mobile sync. | Details |
| 📺 Jellyfin | An open-source media system that puts you in control of managing and streaming your media. | Details |
| 📺 Jellyseerr | A request management and media discovery tool for Jellyfin and Plex users. | Details |
| 🎶 Navidrome | Your Personal Streaming Service self-hosted. | Details |
| 🎶 Swing Music | A fast, beautiful, self-hosted music streaming server for your local audio library. | Details |
| 🎬 Overseerr | A request management and media discovery tool for Plex and Jellyfin users. | Details |
| 🎵 Picard | MusicBrainz Picard is a cross-platform music tagger for organizing and tagging music files. | Details |
| 🎬 Plex | A media server that organizes video, music, and photos from personal media libraries. | Details |
| 📥 qBittorrent | An open-source BitTorrent client. | Details |
| 📡 Prowlarr | An indexer manager and proxy for applications like Radarr, Sonarr, and Lidarr. | Details |
| 🎞️ Radarr | A movie collection manager for Usenet and BitTorrent users. | Details |
| 📡 Sonarr | A PVR for Usenet and BitTorrent users to manage TV series. | Details |
| 🔗 Slink | A fast, self-hosted alternative to ShareDrop for secure local file sharing. | Details |
| 📊 Tautulli | A monitoring and tracking tool for Plex Media Server. | Details |
| ⚙️ Configarr | Manage and sync configuration for Radarr, Sonarr, and related services. | Details |
| 🖼️ Posterizarr | Automatically generates and updates posters/artwork for media libraries. | Details |
| ♻️ Recyclarr | Tools for managing, migrating, and maintaining indexers and quality profiles. | Details |
| 💼 Service | 📝 Description | 🔗 Link |
|---|---|---|
| ✂️ ClipCascade | A self-hosted clipboard manager for syncing and organizing clipboard history. | Details |
| 🗂️ Copyparty | A self-hosted file server with accelerated resumable uploads. | Details |
| ✅ Donetick | A self-hosted task and checklist manager for productivity. | Details |
| 📚 Docmost | A self-hosted, real-time collaborative wiki with rich editing, diagrams, permissions, and full-text search. | Details |
| ✅ DumbDo | A self-hosted, minimalistic task manager for simple to-do lists. | Details |
| ✅ Eigenfocus | A self-hosted task and project management tool for productivity. | Details |
| 📝 Excalidraw | A virtual collaborative whiteboard tool. | Details |
| 📝 Flatnotes | A simple, self-hosted note-taking app using Markdown files. | Details |
| 👨🏼💻 Forgejo | A community-driven, self-hosted Git service. | Details |
| ✍️ Ghost | A modern, open-source publishing platform for blogs and newsletters. | Details |
| 🧑🧑🧒🧒 Gramps Web | A web-based genealogy platform for collaborative family tree browsing, editing, AI-powered chat, media tagging, mapping, charts, search, and reporting. | Details |
| 🔖 Haptic | Haptic is a new local-first & privacy-focused, open-source home for your markdown notes. | Details |
| 🌿 Isley | A self-hosted cannabis grow journal for tracking plants and managing grow data. | Details |
| 🗒️ Karakeep | A self-hosted, collaborative note-taking app — a private alternative to Google Keep. | Details |
| 🗂️ Kaneo | A modern, self-hosted project management platform focused on simplicity. | Details |
| 🧠 LanguageTool | An open-source proofreading software for multiple languages. | Details |
| 🔖 Linkding | A self-hosted bookmark manager to save and organize links. | Details |
| 📥 Mattermost | A self-hosted collaborative workflow and communication tool. | Details |
| 📝 Nanote | A lightweight, self-hosted note-taking app with Markdown support. | Details |
| ☁️ NextCloud | A suite of client-server software for creating and using file hosting services. | Details |
| 🔗 Pingvin Share | PROJECT ARCHIVED A self-hosted file sharing platform. | Details |
| 🔄 Resilio Sync | A fast, reliable, and simple file sync and share solution. | Details |
| 🗂️ Stirling-PDF | A web application for managing and editing PDF files. | Details |
| 📄 BentoPDF | A lightweight, self-hosted web app for viewing and managing PDF documents. | Details |
| 📋 Formbricks | A self-hosted, open-source platform for collecting user feedback, surveys, and NPS. | Details |
| 🏦 Subtrackr | A self-hosted web app to track subscriptions, renewal dates, costs, and payment methods. | Details |
| 🗃️ Vaultwarden | An unofficial Bitwarden server implementation written in Rust. | Details |
| 💸 Wallos | An open-source, self-hostable web app to track and manage your recurring subscriptions and expenses, with multi-currency support, customizable categories, and statistics. | Details |
| 📊 Service | 📝 Description | 🔗 Link |
|---|---|---|
| 🧭 Glance | A concise, customizable dashboard for self-hosted services and personal metrics. | Details |
| 🏠 Homepage | A modern, highly customizable homepage for organizing links and monitoring services. | Details |
| 🛠️ Service | 📝 Description | 🔗 Link |
|---|---|---|
| 🖥️ Changedetection.io | A tool for monitoring website changes. | Details |
| 🛠️ Coder | Self-hosted cloud dev environments with browser IDEs, Terraform-managed workspaces. | Details |
| 🔧 Cyberchef | A web app for encryption, encoding, compression, and data analysis. | Details |
| 🖥️ Dozzle | A real-time log viewer for Docker containers. | Details |
| 🖥️ GitSave | A self-hosted service to back up your GitHub repositories via a simple REST API and scheduled runs. | Details |
| 🔁 FossFLOW | A self-hosted tool to make beautiful isometric infrastructure diagrams. | Details |
| 🖥️ Gokapi | A lightweight self-hosted file sharing platform. | Details |
| 🖥️ Homarr | A sleek dashboard for all your Homelab services. | Details |
| 🖥️ IT-Tools | A collection of handy online tools for developers and sysadmins. | Details |
| 🖥️ Node-RED | A flow-based development tool for visual programming. | Details |
| 🖥️ Portainer | A lightweight management UI which allows you to easily manage your Docker environments. | Details |
| 🔍 searXNG | A free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from various search services. | Details |
| 📈 Service | 📝 Description | 🔗 Link |
|---|---|---|
| 📉 Beszel | A lightweight server monitoring hub with historical data, Docker stats, and alerts. | Details |
| 🔎 Portracker | A simple, self-hosted port monitoring and tracking tool for auditing open ports. | Details |
| 🚀 Speedtest Tracker | A self-hosted tool to monitor and log internet speed tests with detailed visualizations. | Details |
| 📊 Uptime Kuma | A self-hosted monitoring tool like "Uptime Robot". | Details |
| 🏠 Service | 📝 Description | 🔗 Link |
|---|---|---|
| 🏡 Home Assistant | An open-source home automation platform for controlling smart devices. | Details |
| 📱 Service | 📝 Description | 🔗 Link |
|---|---|---|
| 🔁 ConvertX | A fast, full-featured self-hosted conversion API for images, docs, videos, and more. | Details |
| 🔔 Gotify | A simple server for sending and receiving messages in real-time. | Details |
| 📣 ntfy | A simple HTTP-based pub/sub notification service for sending push notifications. | Details |
| 🚗 LubeLogger | Self-hosted vehicle maintenance tracker with private access. | Details |
| 📱 Mini-QR | A minimal, self-hosted QR code generator with a mobile-friendly UI. | Details |
| 🔐 Hemmelig | A self-hosted, zero-knowledge encrypted secret sharing platform with expiring secrets. | Details |
| 🥘 Service | 📝 Description | 🔗 Link |
|---|---|---|
| 🥘 Mealie | A self-hosted recipe manager and meal planner with features like shopping lists, scaling, and importing. | Details |
| 🥘 Tandoor Recipes | A self-hosted recipe manager that also serves as a meal planner that has features such as nutrient tracking, shopping lists, importing and AI. | Details |
Tailscale Funnel securely exposes services to the public internet. Tailscale Serve is for sharing content within a private Tailscale network (Tailnet). You'll need to decide how you want to expose the service, the configurations in this repository exposes the local Tailnet.
Tailscale Funnel is a feature that lets you route traffic from the wider internet to a local service running on a machine in your Tailscale network (known as a Tailnet). You can think of this as publicly sharing a local service, like a web app, for anyone to access—even if they don’t have Tailscale themselves.
An example configuration for Tailscale Funnel for your service is available here.
Tailscale Serve is a feature that lets you route traffic from other devices on your Tailscale network (known as a Tailnet) to a local service running on your device. You can think of this as sharing the service, such as a website, with the rest of your Tailnet.
An example configuration for Tailscale Serve for your service is available here.
- Tailscale.com - Knowledge Base
- Tailscale.com - Funnel
- Tailscale.com - Serve
- Tailscale.com - Docker Tailscale Guide
- Tailscale - for ARM / OpenPli Setupbox
See CONTRIBUTING.md for guidance on adding services with the template, documenting gotchas, and keeping Tailscale-sidecar setups consistent.