ScaleTail provides ready-to-run Docker Compose stacks that instantly connect your self-hosted applications to your Tailnet. By using a sidecar configuration, your applications get an URL with automatic HTTPS, for example: https://application.tail-net.ts.net.
Alex from the official Tailscale YouTube channel did a deep dive into ScaleTail! He walks through how to deploy a secure, private service of ScaleTail in under 10 minutes.
Requirement: Docker Compose and Git must be installed. Preferably on a Linux Operating system.
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Get an Auth Key
Go to the Tailscale Admin Console → Keys and generate a new auth key.
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Clone and Choose a Service
Clone the repository and change directory to your desired service with the following command:
git clone https://github.com/tailscale-dev/ScaleTail.git cd ScaleTail/services/YourDesiredService -
Configure and Launch
- Open the
.envfile in your chosen service directory. - Add your auth key after the line
TS_AUTHKEY=. - Start the Docker compose stack:
docker compose up -d
- Open the
- ScaleTail - Secure Self-Hosting Made Simple
| 🌐 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 |
| 🎥 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 |
| 📖 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 |
| 💼 Service | 📝 Description | 🔗 Link |
|---|---|---|
| 💰 Actual Budget | A self-hosted personal finance and budgeting app focused on privacy and full data ownership. | Details |
| ✂️ 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 with rich editing, diagrams, permissions, and full-text search. | Details |
| ✅ DumbDo | A self-hosted, minimalistic task manager for simple to-do lists. | Details |
| ✅ Eigenfocus | A self-hosted task and project management tool for productivity. | Details |
| 📝 Excalidraw | A virtual collaborative whiteboard tool. | Details |
| 📝 Flatnotes | A simple, self-hosted note-taking app using Markdown files. | Details |
| 👨🏼💻 Forgejo | A community-driven, self-hosted Git service. | Details |
| ✍️ Ghost | A modern, open-source publishing platform for blogs and newsletters. | Details |
| 🧑🧑🧒🧒 Gramps Web | A web-based genealogy platform for collaborative family tree browsing, editing, AI-powered chat, media tagging, mapping, charts, search, and reporting. | Details |
| 🔖 Haptic | Haptic is a new local-first & privacy-focused, open-source home for your markdown notes. | Details |
| 🌿 Isley | A self-hosted cannabis grow journal for tracking plants and managing grow data. | Details |
| 🗒️ Karakeep | A self-hosted, collaborative note-taking app — a private alternative to Google Keep. | Details |
| 🗂️ Kaneo | A modern, self-hosted project management platform focused on simplicity. | Details |
| 🧠 LanguageTool | An open-source proofreading software for multiple languages. | Details |
| 🔖 Linkding | A self-hosted bookmark manager to save and organize links. | Details |
| 📥 Mattermost | A self-hosted collaborative workflow and communication tool. | Details |
| 📝 Memos | A lightweight, self-hosted note-taking and knowledge management platform for capturing ideas, daily notes, and personal knowledge. | Details |
| 📝 Nanote | A lightweight, self-hosted note-taking app with Markdown support. | Details |
| ☁️ NextCloud | A suite of client-server software for creating and using file hosting services. | Details |
| 🔗 Pingvin Share | PROJECT ARCHIVED A self-hosted file sharing platform. | Details |
| 🔄 Resilio Sync | A fast, reliable, and simple file sync and share solution. | Details |
| 🗂️ Stirling-PDF | A web application for managing and editing PDF files. | Details |
| 📄 BentoPDF | A lightweight, self-hosted web app for viewing and managing PDF documents. | Details |
| 📋 Formbricks | A self-hosted, open-source platform for collecting user feedback, surveys, and NPS. | Details |
| 🏦 Subtrackr | A self-hosted web app to track subscriptions, renewal dates, costs, and payment methods. | Details |
| 🗃️ Vaultwarden | An unofficial Bitwarden server implementation written in Rust. | Details |
| 💸 Wallos | An open-source, self-hostable web app to track and manage your recurring subscriptions and expenses, with multi-currency support, customizable categories, and statistics. | Details |
| 📊 Service | 📝 Description | 🔗 Link |
|---|---|---|
| 🧭 Glance | A concise, customizable dashboard for self-hosted services and personal metrics. | Details |
| 🏠 Homepage | A modern, highly customizable homepage for organizing links and monitoring services. | Details |
| 🛠️ Service | 📝 Description | 🔗 Link |
|---|---|---|
| 🧰 Arcane | A self-hosted Docker management UI for Compose stacks; this repo includes a Tailscale sidecar example. | Details |
| 🖥️ Changedetection.io | A tool for monitoring website changes. | Details |
| 🛠️ Coder | Self-hosted cloud dev environments with browser IDEs, Terraform-managed workspaces. | Details |
| 🔧 Cyberchef | A web app for encryption, encoding, compression, and data analysis. | Details |
| 🐳 Dockhand | A modern, lightweight Docker management UI for containers and Compose stacks. | Details |
| 🖥️ Dozzle | A real-time log viewer for Docker containers. | Details |
| 🔁 FossFLOW | A self-hosted tool to make beautiful isometric infrastructure diagrams. | Details |
| 🖥️ GitSave | A self-hosted service to back up your GitHub repositories via a simple REST API and scheduled runs. | Details |
| 🖥️ Gokapi | A lightweight self-hosted file sharing platform. | Details |
| 🖥️ Homarr | A sleek dashboard for all your Homelab services. | Details |
| 🖥️ IT-Tools | A collection of handy online tools for developers and sysadmins. | Details |
| 🖥️ Node-RED | A flow-based development tool for visual programming. | Details |
| 🖥️ Portainer | A lightweight management UI which allows you to easily manage your Docker environments. | Details |
| 🔍 searXNG | A free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from various search services. | Details |
| 📈 Service | 📝 Description | 🔗 Link |
|---|---|---|
| 📉 Beszel Hub | The Beszel Hub provides historical monitoring data, Docker stats, and alerts. | Details |
| 🛰️ Beszel Agent | The Beszel Agent collects stats and reports them back to the Hub. | Details |
| 🔎 Portracker | A simple, self-hosted port monitoring and tracking tool for auditing open ports. | Details |
| 🚀 Speedtest Tracker | A self-hosted tool to monitor and log internet speed tests with detailed visualizations. | Details |
| 📊 Uptime Kuma | A self-hosted monitoring tool like "Uptime Robot". | Details |
| 🏠 Service | 📝 Description | 🔗 Link |
|---|---|---|
| 🏡 Home Assistant | An open-source home automation platform for controlling smart devices. | Details |
| 📱 Service | 📝 Description | 🔗 Link |
|---|---|---|
| 🔁 ConvertX | A fast, full-featured self-hosted conversion API for images, docs, videos, and more. | Details |
| 🔔 Gotify | A simple server for sending and receiving messages in real-time. | Details |
| 📣 ntfy | A simple HTTP-based pub/sub notification service for sending push notifications. | Details |
| 🚗 LubeLogger | Self-hosted vehicle maintenance tracker with private access. | Details |
| 🚗 Tracktor | Self-hosted vehicle maintenance tracker. | Details |
| 📱 Mini-QR | A minimal, self-hosted QR code generator with a mobile-friendly UI. | Details |
| 🔐 Hemmelig | A self-hosted, zero-knowledge encrypted secret sharing platform with expiring secrets. | Details |
| 📦 Homebox | A self-hosted home inventory and asset management system. | Details |
| 🥘 Service | 📝 Description | 🔗 Link |
|---|---|---|
| 🥘 Mealie | A self-hosted recipe manager and meal planner with features like shopping lists, scaling, and importing. | Details |
| 🥘 Tandoor Recipes | A self-hosted recipe manager that also serves as a meal planner that has features such as nutrient tracking, shopping lists, importing and AI. | Details |
Tailscale Funnel securely exposes services to the public internet. Tailscale Serve is for sharing content within a private Tailscale network (Tailnet). You'll need to decide how you want to expose the service, the configurations in this repository exposes the local Tailnet.
Tailscale Funnel is a feature that lets you route traffic from the wider internet to a local service running on a machine in your Tailscale network (known as a Tailnet). You can think of this as publicly sharing a local service, like a web app, for anyone to access—even if they don’t have Tailscale themselves.
Tailscale Serve is a feature that lets you route traffic from other devices on your Tailscale network (known as a Tailnet) to a local service running on your device. You can think of this as sharing the service, such as a website, with the rest of your Tailnet.
- Tailscale.com - Knowledge Base
- Tailscale.com - Funnel
- Tailscale.com - Serve
- Tailscale.com - Docker Tailscale Guide
- Tailscale - for ARM / OpenPli Setupbox
See CONTRIBUTING.md for guidance on adding services with the template and keeping Tailscale-sidecar setups consistent.