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Episode 531: Xe Iaso on Tailscale

Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers

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What's the Simplest Component of Tail Scale?

Tail scale uses WireGuard, which is the open source VPN protocol. There's a client software you're saying you need to install on each of the servers and workstations. And then there's the sort of control plane on tail scale side. That's where the admin panel is hosted. The agent is basically the same between all the devices. It's written and go and turns out that go can actually cross compile fairly well.

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