Already paying for ChatGPT or Claude? Connect your existing subscription to Aperture, route coding agents like Claude Code through it, and gain visibility into AI usage, estimated costs, and more. Learn how → buff.ly/0bhycpP

Every secret you create is another secret you have to protect. Join Chandan Chowdhury (Corelight) and Cameron Stokes (Tailscale) to see how workload identity federation helps replace static secrets with identity-based access. Register → buff.ly/wt2B8FS

#TailscaleUp26 is less than a month away, so mark your calendars...or we just might 😬

I put Bambu studio in a container and run it on my home lab Kubernetes cluster (with GPU acceleration) and expose it on my @tailscale.com network I wish I had done this sooner

The countdown to Black Hat is on. If you're heading to Las Vegas, come find the Tailscale team. We'd love to talk secure networking, zero trust, AI infrastructure, or whatever security challenge is top of mind. See you there! #BHUSA2026

All your favorite models, hold the tedium … but now you've got us wondering: what's everyone's favorite model/task match?

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I'm not surprised entirely, but Tailscale Aperture is 90% of the tedious bits of how I want to manage my personal AI hardware, and all I need to do is decide tasks based on model names . And also provides the Frontier Escape Hatch. Now what tasks to send to what is the real question...

Pretend all AI models and their costs are equal, how do you choose between SaaS, self-hosting, or an AI gateway? In this talk, Justin will break down tradeoffs, including Tailscale’s Aperture, and a framework for decisions. Register → buff.ly/46nJmPx

Finally got a replacement after my laptop died. Starting to get my projects set up, and I was having trouble remembering how I had configured tools to call LLMs. Took a break and set up @tailscale.com , and lo-and-behold, my Aperture instance is there in my tailnet, LLMs already configured. Sweet

Our next Ask a Tailscale Expert is next week. Alex Kretzschmar hosts Remy Guercio for a live overview of Aperture, followed by an open Q&A. Bring your questions about Aperture, or anything else Tailscale. ▶️ See you on YouTube.

Are you the Tailscale enthusiast who brought Tailscale to work? 👀 Head over to our Linkedin post and tell us how you championed Tailscale at your organization for a chance to win a free #TailscaleUp26 ticket + hotel stay. Join the conversation 👉 buff.ly/IZjuMMb

There's no shortage of talk about AI. The harder part is what comes after your teams start using it: who's using what, how much of it, and how it's made secure. We're kicking off a new Aperture demo series, starting with the basics: what Aperture is, and what it brings to your AI stack.

Last week looked a little like this 📸 A few of our favorite moments from WeAreDevelopers. Until next time, Berlin. 🇩🇪

Before you add another rule, take a look at your policy file. Join the Tailscale team at #TailscaleUp26 for a hands-on session on locking things down without locking people out: least-privilege grants, production/staging segmentation, PAM, and device posture checks. Register → buff.ly/pmjfxhx

Learn how platform teams are balancing self-service access for developers with security and operational consistency across Kubernetes clusters. Join Krumware, Tigera, and Tailscale on July 14. Register → buff.ly/uQUWlx3

Love using Tailscale? We're looking for passionate community members who want to connect with other technical experts, share feedback, and help grow the Tailscale community. Applications are open year-round. Our next Insider group joins at the end of July. Apply → tailscale.com/insiders-pro...

Many Tailscale deployments start the same way: someone tries it in a homelab, then brings it to work. At #TailscaleUp, GoFundMe CISO John Downey shares how they replaced legacy VPNs with Tailscale and what they learned along the way. Register today → buff.ly/5VuRrlX

Running AI agents in production? Audit trails shouldn't stop at prompts and responses. Aperture records administrator access to AI activity, making it easier to investigate who accessed what, and when. Learn more → buff.ly/JuCGfNS

Annnd we're live! Join Fred and Alex Kretzschmar, Head of Developer Relations at Tailscale, as they talk all things developer relations and show how Tailscale Serve makes local apps privately reachable by default. Tune in: buff.ly/N5dujmI

The best observability tools aren't much help if they can't securely reach your private infrastructure. See how Grafana Labs connects Grafana Cloud to private data sources with Tailscale at #TailscaleUp26. Register → buff.ly/5VuRrlX

Join me & my guest Alex Kretzschmar, Head of Developer Relations at @tailscale.com, while we discuss all things #devrel & learn more about how to use Tailscale Serve to make local applications reachable privately giving users a private-by-default dev experience. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPEn...

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Provision developer environments without passing around auth keys. Device Provisioning with OAuth Apps lets you spin up VMs, workspaces, and more under each user's Tailscale identity, keeping access tied to the right user. Learn how it works → buff.ly/MJsv675

Shared credentials have a habit of creating headaches later. Border0 + Tailscale brings identity-aware access to databases, Kubernetes clusters, SSH servers, RDP sessions, and internal apps so every connection is tied to a specific identity. Now available as a free trial. Learn more →

What does secure access look like at GitHub? Join their TailscaleUp session for a behind-the-scenes look at Tailnet Lock, identity-based access, ephemeral CI/CD workloads, and the tooling that powers it all. Register for TailscaleUp today → buff.ly/7uq2BDT

Kevin's back with a walkthrough of how he used Tailscale Funnel to put a transit dashboard on his "smart" fridge. Here's a look at how he got there.

It turns out a lot of people still enjoy talking about networking after work. Next week, we'll be at the AI Engineer World's Fair Afterparty swapping stories, comparing notes, and meeting fellow infrastructure folks. See you there 👉 luma.com/2avil0ni

Tailscale on a jailbroken Kindle? Pretty cool, on its own. But we noticed that this amazing community project has gotten even cooler lately, adding proxies to its bag of tricks. Check out what’s new at our blog 👉 buff.ly/6KszJki

This is a boring kind of feature in the best way possible: Tailscale logs now stream to Azure Blob Storage. Logs just go where you need them to go. Configure it today → buff.ly/AT5V9HX

TailscaleUp starts a day early. Join us for Day 0 Community Day: real-world user stories, candid conversations with Tailscale engineers, networking and infrastructure career discussions, and behind-the-scenes insights from the teams building Tailscale. See you there → buff.ly/7uq2BDT

Every company building with AI wants the best models, the right data, and the freedom to adapt as things change. The challenge? Connecting it all without vendor lock-in. Meet the latest additions to Aperture. Future-proof your AI today → buff.ly/ltI1e8G

You mean, _besides_ these five? tailscale.com/blog/tailsca... tsnet building workshop, so I can finally make the self-hosted gift-list-collaboration app I've needed for, like, 20 years.

TailscaleUp agenda: five sessions to attend

A guide to five TailscaleUp talks and workshops covering VPNs, AI agents, Aperture, policy files, and Tailscale’s roadmap.

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