ScaleTail - Secure Self-Hosting Made Simple

ScaleTail provides ready-to-run Docker Compose stacks that instantly connect your self-hosted applications to your Tailnet. By using a Docker sidecar configuration, your applications get an URL with automatic HTTPS, for example: https://application.tail-net.ts.net.

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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.

Quick Start

Requirement: Docker Compose and Git must be installed. Preferably on a Linux Operating system.

1. Get an Auth Key

   Go to the Tailscale Admin Console → Keys and generate a new auth key.

2. 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 
   

3. Configure and Launch

   • Open the .env file in your chosen service directory.
   • Add your auth key after the line TS_AUTHKEY=.
   • Start the Docker compose stack:

   docker compose up -d
   

Table of Contents

• ScaleTail - Secure Self-Hosting Made Simple
  • Featured by Tailscale
  • Quick Start
  • Table of Contents
  • Available Configurations
    • 🌐 Networking and Security
    • 🎥 Media and Entertainment
    • 💼 Productivity and Collaboration
    • 📊 Dashboards and Visualization
    • 🛠️ Development Tools
    • 📈 Monitoring and Analytics
    • 🏠 Smart Home
    • 📱 Utilities
    • 🍽️ Food & Wellness
  • Tailscale Information
    • Tailscale Funnel vs. Tailscale Serve
    • Tailscale Funnel
    • Tailscale Serve
  • Tailscale Documentation
  • Contributors
  • Contributing
  • Star History
  • License

Available Configurations

🌐 Networking and Security

🌐 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
🌐 Flaresolverr	A proxy server to bypass Cloudflare and DDoS-GUARD protection.	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
🌐 Rustdesk Server	RustDesk is an open source remote control alternative for self-hosting and security.	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 App Connector Node	Configure a device to act as a App connector node for your Tailscale network.	Details
🚀 Tailscale Exit Node	Configure a device to act as an exit node for your Tailscale network.	Details
🌐 Tailscale Subnet Router Node	Configure a device to act as a subnet router node for your Tailscale network.	Details

🎥 Media and Entertainment

🎥 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
🎥 Frigate	A self-hosted NVR with real-time AI object detection for IP cameras and local video monitoring.	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
📚 Paperless-ngx	An open-source document management system that transforms physical documents into a searchable archive.	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

💼 Productivity and Collaboration

💼 Service	📝 Description	🔗 Link
💰 Actual Budget	A self-hosted personal finance and budgeting app focused on privacy and full data ownership.	Details
⚓ Anchor	An offline-first, self-hosted note-taking app with sync, attachments, sharing, and optional OIDC authentication.	Details
📄 BentoPDF	A lightweight, self-hosted web app for viewing and managing PDF documents.	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
🗂️ EspoCRM	A CRM for Sales, support and marketing.	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
📋 Formbricks	A self-hosted, open-source platform for collecting user feedback, surveys, and NPS.	Details
👨🏼‍💻 Gitea	A lightweight, self-hosted Git service with repository hosting, pull requests, and issue tracking.	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
🤖 Open WebUI	A self-hosted AI platform with a ChatGPT-style interface for local and cloud-based models.	Details
🔗 Pingvin Share	PROJECT ARCHIVED A self-hosted file sharing platform.	Details
📅 Radicale	A lightweight CalDAV and CardDAV server for self-hosted calendar, to-do, and contact sync.	Details
🔄 Resilio Sync	A fast, reliable, and simple file sync and share solution.	Details
📁 Seafile	A self-hosted file syncing and collaboration platform with file sharing, versioning, and team library support.	Details
🗂️ Stirling-PDF	A web application for managing and editing PDF files.	Details
💰 Sure Finance	A self-hosted personal finance and budgeting app with optional AI insights.	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
✅ Vikunja	A self-hosted task and project management platform with projects, reminders, labels, recurring tasks, and collaboration features.	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
📚 XWiki	XWiki offers a generic platform for developing projects and collaborative applications using the wiki paradigm.	Details

📊 Dashboards and Visualization

📊 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
🖼️ NewWallpaperWhoDis	A lightweight, self-hosted wallpaper management server and dynamic rotation engine built on flat-file architecture.	Details

🛠️ Development Tools

🛠️ 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
🐳 Dockge	A lightweight, self-hosted Docker Compose stack manager with a web UI.	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
🧠 Ollama	A self-hosted solution for running open large language models (LLMs) locally with an OpenAI-compatible API.	Details

📈 Monitoring and Analytics

📈 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

🏠 Smart Home

🏠 Service	📝 Description	🔗 Link
🏡 Home Assistant	An open-source home automation platform for controlling smart devices.	Details

📱 Utilities

📱 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
🔐 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
🚗 LubeLogger	Self-hosted vehicle maintenance tracker with private access.	Details
📱 Mini-QR	A minimal, self-hosted QR code generator with a mobile-friendly UI.	Details
📣 ntfy	A simple HTTP-based pub/sub notification service for sending push notifications.	Details
🚗 Tracktor	Self-hosted vehicle maintenance tracker.	Details
🔁 Transmute	A self-hosted file conversion and transformation service for handling documents, media, and other format changes.	Details

🍽️ Food & Wellness

🥘 Service	📝 Description	🔗 Link
🥘 Kitchenowl	A self-hosted smart grocery list and recipe manager with features like expense tracking, weekly meal planner, rich recipe import options and OIDC support.	Details
🥘 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 Information

Tailscale Funnel vs. Tailscale Serve

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

Tailscale Funnel is a feature that lets you route traffic from the 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

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 Documentation

• Tailscale.com - Knowledge Base
• Tailscale.com - Funnel
• Tailscale.com - Serve
• Tailscale.com - Docker Tailscale Guide
• Tailscale - for ARM / OpenPli Setupbox

Contributors

A huge thank you to all our contributors! ScaleTail wouldn’t be what it is today without your time, effort, and ideas!

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Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md for guidance on adding services with the template to keep Tailscale-sidecar setups consistent.

Star History

License

MIT