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Episode 531: Xe Iaso on Tailscale

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Who Is Damon?

Tail scale is an API call that we expose via Unix socket. You give it an IP address and a port, and it tells you who the person is. It's kind of like the Unix IDENT protocol in a way, except completely not. And at a high level, if you have something like a proxy for Grafana, make a call to the local tail scale,. Damon, and be like, hey, who is this person? There's not really support for like arbitrary capabilities and tail scale D at the time of recording, but we've had some thoughts. Would be cool.

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