Headscale

Headscale

Juan Font
kMetal

kMetal

CLASTIX
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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

kMetal is a bare metal Kubernetes platform from Clastix. It provisions physical servers, provides virtualization natively through kernel-based KVM, manages software-defined tenant networking, and builds and rolls out immutable node operating systems, all declared as Kubernetes resources. Platform teams use it to deliver self-service Kubernetes clusters on hardware they own, with no separate hypervisor layer underneath. Each tenant receives a dedicated control plane, an isolated network, and enforced quotas. kMetal is assembled from established open source cloud native projects with no proprietary forks, and the clusters it delivers are CNCF-conformant upstream Kubernetes.

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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

Clastix is built for organizations that run Kubernetes at scale and need to manage many clusters without the operational overhead or cost of hyperscaler alternatives. The best fit is managed and cloud service providers (MSPs/CSPs) who want to offer Kubernetes-as-a-service to their own customers without building that infrastructure from scratch. It also suits enterprise infrastructure and platform teams running large, multi-tenant environments who need to consolidate cluster sprawl, cut operational costs, and provision new environments in minutes rather than days. Beyond that, it's a strong match for infrastructure-intensive and regulated industries such as telecom and connectivity providers, finance, gaming, and manufacturing, as well as AI/HPC and GPU infrastructure operators who need multi-tenant, high-performance Kubernetes environments, and edge computing deployments that require low-latency, distributed control planes. In short: any organization that wants full control of its Kubernetes infrastructure — avoiding vendor lock-in — while still getting the self-service, multi-tenant experience of a public cloud.

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API

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Pricing

Free
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Training

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Company Information

Juan Font
Netherlands
headscale.net/stable/

Company Information

CLASTIX
Founded: 2020
Italy
clastix.io

Alternatives

Alternatives

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Categories

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Integrations

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