Tailscale Sidecar Examples
Discover Seamless Docker Networking with Tailscale.
If you’re working with Docker and looking for a streamlined way to manage secure, private networking between containers across devices, check out the Tailscale Docker Sidecar Configs project: 2Tiny2Scale/tailscale-docker-sidecar-configs.
This repository offers example docker-compose.yml configurations designed to simplify deploying services with Tailscale as a sidecar. Whether you’re setting up secure connectivity for self-hosted applications or exploring lightweight VPN solutions, this project is a great starting point.
Key features include:
- Plug-and-play examples: Quickly integrate Tailscale into your Dockerized services.
- Simplified connectivity: Effortlessly enable private networking between containers across devices.
- Customizable configurations: Adapt to your specific needs and environments.
Explore the repository, try out the examples, and feel free to contribute or provide feedback! 🚀
Available Configurations
Section titled “Available Configurations”Networking and Security
Section titled “Networking and Security”| 🌐 Service | 📝 Description | 🔗 Link |
|---|---|---|
| 🛡️ AdGuard Home | Network-wide software for blocking ads and tracking. | Details |
| 🧩 Pi-hole | A network-level ad blocker that acts as a DNS sinkhole. | 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 |
| 🌐 DDNS Updater | A self-hosted solution to keep DNS A/AAAA records updated automatically. | Details |
Media and Entertainment
Section titled “Media and Entertainment”| 🎥 Service | 📝 Description | 🔗 Link |
|---|---|---|
| 🎬 Plex | A media server that organizes video, music, and photos from personal media libraries. | Details |
| 📺 Jellyfin | An open-source media system that puts you in control of managing and streaming your media. | 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 |
| 🎥 Bazarr | A companion tool to Radarr and Sonarr for managing subtitles. | Details |
| 📊 Tautulli | A monitoring and tracking tool for Plex Media Server. | Details |
| 📥 qBittorrent | An open-source BitTorrent client. | Details |
| 🔗 Slink | A fast, self-hosted alternative to ShareDrop for secure local file sharing. | Details |
Productivity and Collaboration
Section titled “Productivity and Collaboration”| 💼 Service | 📝 Description | 🔗 Link |
|---|---|---|
| ☁️ NextCloud | A suite of client-server software for creating and using file hosting services. | Details |
| 📝 Excalidraw | A virtual collaborative whiteboard tool. | Details |
| 🔗 Pingvin Share | A self-hosted file sharing platform. | Details |
| 🗂️ Stirling-PDF | A web application for managing and editing PDF files. | Details |
| 🧠 LanguageTool | An open-source proofreading software for multiple languages. | Details |
| 🔄 Resilio Sync | A fast, reliable, and simple file sync and share solution. | Details |
| 🗃️ Vaultwarden | An unofficial Bitwarden server implementation written in Rust. | Details |
| 🌿 Isley | A self-hosted cannabis grow journal for tracking plants and managing grow data. | Details |
Development Tools
Section titled “Development Tools”| 🛠️ Service | 📝 Description | 🔗 Link |
|---|---|---|
| 🔧 Cyberchef | A web app for encryption, encoding, compression, and data analysis. | Details |
| 🔍 searXNG | A free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from various search services. | Details |
| 🖥️ Node-RED | A flow-based development tool for visual programming. | Details |
| 🖥️ IT-Tools | A collection of handy online tools for developers and sysadmins. | Details |
| 🖥️ Dozzle | A real-time log viewer for Docker containers. | Details |
| 🖥️ Portainer | A lightweight management UI which allows you to easily manage your Docker environments. | Details |
| 🖥️ Gokapi | A lightweight self-hosted file sharing platform. | Details |
| 🖥️ Homarr | A sleek dashboard for all your Homelab services. | Details |
| 🖥️ Changedetection.io | A tool for monitoring website changes. | Details |
Monitoring and Analytics
Section titled “Monitoring and Analytics”| 📈 Service | 📝 Description | 🔗 Link |
|---|---|---|
| 📊 Uptime Kuma | A self-hosted monitoring tool like “Uptime Robot”. | Details |
| 📉 Beszel | A lightweight server monitoring hub with historical data, Docker stats, and alerts. | Details |
Tailscale Funnel vs. Tailscale Serve
Section titled “Tailscale Funnel vs. Tailscale Serve”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
Section titled “Tailscale Funnel”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
Section titled “Tailscale Serve”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.
