ScaleTail - Tailscale Docker Sidecar Configuration Examples

This repository provides examples of using Tailscale in a sidecar configuration within Docker, specifically for integrating Tailscale with various services. By leveraging Tailscale's secure networking capabilities, these examples demonstrate how to seamlessly route traffic through Tailscale while maintaining service functionality and security.

The provided configurations showcase how to set up Tailscale alongside Docker services, with a focus on ensuring connectivity, security, and ease of deployment. The examples include configurations for Tailscale authentication, state management, and service routing.

If you would like to add a new config, you can use the service-template or open an issue.

Table of Contents

• ScaleTail - Tailscale Docker Sidecar Configuration Examples
  • Table of Contents
    • Helpful videos and docs
  • Available Configurations
    • 🌐 Networking and Security
    • 🎥 Media and Entertainment
    • 💼 Productivity and Collaboration
    • 📊 Dashboards and Visualization
    • 🛠️ Development Tools
    • 📈 Monitoring and Analytics
    • 🏠 Smart Home
    • 📱 Utilities
    • 🍽️ Food & Wellness
  • Tailscale Information
    • Tailscale Funnel vs. Tailscale Serve
    • Tailscale Funnel
    • Tailscale Serve
  • Tailscale Documentation
  • Contributing
  • Star History
  • License

Helpful videos and docs

• Tailscale Docker sidecar guide and Serve/Funnel walkthroughs on the official Tailscale YouTube channel pair well with these examples.
• The Tailscale Docker guide, Serve docs, and Funnel docs cover the underlying features without duplicating content here.

Available Configurations

🌐 Networking and Security

| 🌐 Service | 📝 Description | 🔗 Link | | ------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------- | | 🛡️ AdGuard Home | Network-wide software for blocking ads and tracking. | Details | | 🔄 AdGuardHome Sync | A tool for syncing configuration across multiple AdGuard Home instances. | Details | | 🌐 Caddy | Caddy is an extensible server platform that uses TLS by default. | Details | | 🌐 DDNS Updater | A self-hosted solution to keep DNS A/AAAA records updated automatically. | Details | | 🔍 Nessus | A powerful vulnerability scanner with a free Essentials model for home use. | Details | | 🗃️ Netbox | NetBox is the leading solution for modeling and documenting modern networks. | Details | | 🧩 Pi-hole | A network-level ad blocker that acts as a DNS sinkhole. | Details | | 🆔 Pocket ID | A self-hosted decentralized identity (OIDC) solution for secure authentication. | 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 |

🎥 Media and Entertainment

| 🎥 Service | 📝 Description | 🔗 Link | | -------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------- | | 🎧 Audiobookshelf | A self-hosted audiobook and podcast server with multi-user support and playback syncing. | Details | | 🎥 Bazarr | A companion tool to Radarr and Sonarr for managing subtitles. | Details | | 📚 BookLore | A self-hosted application for managing and reading books. | Details | | 🎮 Hytale | A self-hosted Hytale game server. | Details | | 🖼️ Immich | A self-hosted Google Photos alternative with face recognition and mobile sync. | Details | | 📺 Jellyfin | An open-source media system that puts you in control of managing and streaming your media. | Details | | 📺 Jellyseerr | A request management and media discovery tool for Jellyfin and Plex users. | Details | | 📖 Kavita | An open-source, self-hosted digital library for comics, manga, and ebooks. | Details | | 📻 Miniflux | A minimalist and opinionated feed reader. | Details | | 🎶 Navidrome | Your Personal Streaming Service self-hosted. | Details | | 🎶 Swing Music | A fast, beautiful, self-hosted music streaming server for your local audio library. | Details | | 🎬 Seerr | A request management and media discovery tool for Plex, Jellyfin and Emby. | Details | | 🎵 Picard | MusicBrainz Picard is a cross-platform music tagger for organizing and tagging music files. | Details | | 🎬 Plex | A media server that organizes video, music, and photos from personal media libraries. | Details | | 📥 qBittorrent | An open-source BitTorrent client. | Details | | 📡 Prowlarr | An indexer manager and proxy for applications like Radarr, Sonarr, and Lidarr. | 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 | | 🔗 Slink | A fast, self-hosted alternative to ShareDrop for secure local file sharing. | Details | | 📊 Tautulli | A monitoring and tracking tool for Plex Media Server. | Details | | 📺 Metube | A self-hosted YouTube downloader with playlist support. | Details | | ⚙️ Configarr | Manage and sync configuration for Radarr, Sonarr, and related services. | Details | | 🖼️ Posterizarr | Automatically generates and updates posters/artwork for media libraries. | Details | | ♻️ Recyclarr | Tools for managing, migrating, and maintaining indexers and quality profiles. | Details |

💼 Productivity and Collaboration

| 💼 Service | 📝 Description | 🔗 Link | | ------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------- | | ✂️ ClipCascade | A self-hosted clipboard manager for syncing and organizing clipboard history. | Details | | 🗂️ Copyparty | A self-hosted file server with accelerated resumable uploads. | Details | | ✅ Donetick | A self-hosted task and checklist manager for productivity. | Details | | 📚 Docmost | A self-hosted, real-time collaborative wiki