Tailscale on Changelog Master Feed

Well, friends, you know I'm a big fan of Tailscale and you know what? I could not do anything. I'm serious. Anything without my telnet. I'm here with my good friend, Alex Kretchmar from Tailscale. Alex, how do you describe Tailscale versus a VPN? How do you describe Tailscale to someone who's not in the know? Well, the biggest difference between Tailscale and a traditional VPN is how the traffic flows. When you look at a traditional VPN, the traffic flows through a central hub and then out to your client devices on the back end. With Tailscale, every device makes a connection directly to every other device. That means effectively you're cutting out the middleman and you get much better performance as a consequence. And so that mesh network that you've built, you've got to have a way to control how the data flows between different devices because you don't have that central choke point anymore. We have a thing called access policies which allow you to granularly define using ACLs and grant policies, which users are allowed to even connect to different things, all over the tail scale encrypted tunnels, which underneath use the wire guard technology. Yeah. Yeah. It's not my LAN, it's my TAN, my tail scale area network. But your word for it is telnet. Right? The telnet is the word that we invented to call a logical grouping of devices that form your tail scale network. Yeah. Much like you might have a LAN of devices or something like that at home. Effectively, the tail net, we call it something different because those devices can transcend physical locations. So you can have a server in the cloud talking to your phone on the bus, talking to your server in, I don't know, the basement of your mom's house across the other side of the ocean. And that tail net is a flat network that only you can connect to and and and access. So that's why we call it a different name from anything else is because it's it's location independent and you can connect to it anywhere.