Tailscale
  • 10 Apr 2024
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Article Summary

The Tailscale CLI brings Tailscale's powerful software-defined networking, based on WireGuard, to the command line. This extension allows you to interact with a Tailscale network(s) from LimaCharlie.

This extension makes use of Tailscale's native CLI, which can be found here.

Example

Returns the current Tailscale status.

- action: extension request
  extension action: run
  extension name: ext-cloud-cli
  extension request:
    cloud: '{{ "tailscale" }}' 
    command_line: '{{ "status --json" }}'
    credentials: '{{ "hive://secret/secret-name" }}'

Credentials

To utilize Tailscale's CLI capabilities, you will need:

  • An auth key
  • Create a secret in the secrets manager in the following format:
authKey

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