juanfont/headscale
An open source, self-hosted implementation of the Tailscale control server
Open source alternative to Tailscale
Headscale is an open source Go project by juanfont, created in June 2020. It has 44,846 stars and 2,605 forks on GitHub and is released under the BSD-3-Clause license. Its most recent commit was on Oct 21, 2026, and it has 72 open issues, 4 of them labelled “good first issue”, which makes it a friendly place to start contributing. Its GitHub topics include tailscale, tailscale-control-server, wireguard, and tailscale-server.
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