Last month, we announced the release of the first beta for Traefik Proxy 3.0, and with it came the exciting new integration with Tailscale, a VPN serv

Exploring the Tailscale-Traefik Integration | Traefik Labs

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2023-01-24 13:30:12

Last month, we announced the release of the first beta for Traefik Proxy 3.0, and with it came the exciting new integration with Tailscale, a VPN service that allows you to create your own private networks from your home, using whatever device you want.

But Tailscale goes beyond providing a service to create a private network. It also offers TLS certificate management, where Tailscale provides you with a valid certificate for your internal Tailscale services. Behind the scenes, Tailscale gets the certificate from Let’s Encrypt. The biggest benefit here is that Tailscale manages the certificate lifecycle for you, so there is no need to worry about renewing or exposing an endpoint to resolve TLS challenges between Let’s Encrypt and your proxy instance.

In this article, I want to show you the two main ways Traefik Proxy makes use of Tailscale — one based on the utilization of the TLS management feature and one bonus story for nerds!

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