Headscale

Headscale

Juan Font
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About

Headscale is an open-source, self-hosted implementation of the control server used by the Tailscale network, enabling users to keep full ownership of their private tailnets while using Tailscale clients. It supports registering users and nodes, issuing pre-authentication keys, advertising subnet-routes and exit-node capabilities, enforcing access-control lists, and integrating with OIDC/SAML identity providers for user authentication. The server is deployable via Debian/Ubuntu packages or standalone binaries, configurable through a YAML file, and managed via its CLI or REST API. Headscale tracks each node, route, and user in its database, supports route approval workflows, and enables features such as subnet routing, exit node designation, and node-to-node mesh within the tailnet. Being self-hosted, it gives organizations and hobbyists full control over their private network endpoints, encryption keys, and traffic flows, rather than depending on a commercial control plane.

About

Calico is an open-source networking and network security solution for containers, virtual machines, and native host-based workloads. Calico supports a broad range of platforms including Kubernetes, OpenShift, Mirantis Kubernetes Engine (MKE), OpenStack, and bare metal services. Whether you opt to use Calico's eBPF data plane or Linux’s standard networking pipeline, Calico delivers blazing-fast performance with true cloud-native scalability. Calico provides developers and cluster operators with a consistent experience and set of capabilities whether running in the public cloud or on-prem, on a single node, or across a multi-thousand-node cluster. Calico gives you a choice of data planes, including a pure Linux eBPF data plane, a standard Linux networking data plane, and a Windows HNS data plane. Whether you prefer the cutting-edge features of eBPF or the familiarity of the standard primitives that existing system administrators already know, Calico has you covered.

Platforms Supported

Windows
Mac
Linux
Cloud
On-Premises
iPhone
iPad
Android
Chromebook

Platforms Supported

Windows
Mac
Linux
Cloud
On-Premises
iPhone
iPad
Android
Chromebook

Audience

System administrators and hobbyist self-hosters wanting a tool to build and control a secure, self-managed VPN/mesh network using Tailscale clients

Audience

Users looking for a solution to manage their containers, virtual machines, and native host-based workloads

Support

Phone Support
24/7 Live Support
Online

Support

Phone Support
24/7 Live Support
Online

API

Offers API

API

Offers API

Screenshots and Videos

Screenshots and Videos

Pricing

Free
Free Version
Free Trial

Pricing

Free
Free Version
Free Trial

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Training

Documentation
Webinars
Live Online
In Person

Training

Documentation
Webinars
Live Online
In Person

Company Information

Juan Font
Netherlands
headscale.net/stable/

Company Information

Project Calico
United States
projectcalico.docs.tigera.io/about/about-calico

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Categories

Categories

Integrations

Amazon EKS
Apigee
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
Box
Debian
GitHub
Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
Kubernetes
Mirantis Kubernetes Engine
OpenStack
OrangeCRM
Red Hat OpenShift
Squarespace
Ubuntu
YAML

Integrations

Amazon EKS
Apigee
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
Box
Debian
GitHub
Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
Kubernetes
Mirantis Kubernetes Engine
OpenStack
OrangeCRM
Red Hat OpenShift
Squarespace
Ubuntu
YAML
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