tailscale

tailscale

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Install latest/stable of tailscale

Ubuntu 16.04 or later?

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Install using the command line

sudo snap install tailscale

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After installing this snap, visit the Tailscale documentation at https://tailscale.com/kb/1017/install to get started.

Confinement

The snap is strictly confined, and this currently brings some limitations.

  • tailscale ssh will not work.
  • ssh over the tailscale network will not work if tailscale ssh mode is enabled (ie. if you have configured tailscale set --ssh). To fix this, disable tailscale ssh: tailscale set --ssh=false.
  • tailscale update will not work: to update tailscale, please refresh the snap.
  • tailscale file cp and tailscale cert will only work with file paths accessible to the snap, for example /home/ubuntu/snap/tailscale/common/foo.txt. See https://snapcraft.io/docs/data-locations for a full list of paths.
  • tailscale drive share will not work (the client command succeeds, the share is registered, but you will see errors in tailscaled logs and the share will not be accessible).

Security

See https://github.com/canonical/tailscale-snap/blob/main/docs/security-reference.md for security and hardening documentation.

Support

If any malfunction with Tailscale features is observed, where this issue is not observed in Tailscale installed from a source other than the snap, please open an issue at https://github.com/canonical/tailscale-snap/issues . To report something related to Tailscale itself, please see https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/issues .

This snap is maintained by Canonical, and is not necessarily endorsed or officially maintained by the upstream developers.

Details for tailscale

License
  • BSD-3-Clause

Last updated
  • 23 July 2025 - latest/stable
  • 8 September 2025 - latest/edge

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