How to: What is Tailscale?
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[Tailscale](https://github.com/tailscale) is a WireGuard-based app that makes secure, private networks easy for teams of any scale. It works like an [overlay network](https://tailscale.com/blog/how-tailscale-works/) between the computers of your networks using all kinds of [NAT traversal sorcery](https://tailscale.com/blog/how-nat-traversal-works/).

 * [Tailscale Terraform Provider](https://github.com/tailscale/terraform-provider-tailscale)
 * [Tailscale Docker extension](https://github.com/tailscale/docker-extension)
 * [Tailscale Synology](https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale-synology)
How NAT Traversal works on a Home router. Credit: [Tailscale](https://tailscale.com/blog/how-nat-traversal-works/).

[Headscale](https://github.com/juanfont/headscale) is an open source, self-hosted implementation of the Tailscale coordination server.