tailscale

Tailscale Joined Mar 2019 View on GitHub

Stars: 64,312; across 86 public repos
Rank: #409; of 94,827 organizations, top 0.4%

Repositories with 50+ stars

tailscale's repositories with their overall rank
Rank	Repository	Language	Stars
820	tailscale The easiest, most secure way to use WireGuard and 2FA.	Go	38,886
6,718	tailcat like netcat, but over Tailscale's data plane, without Tailscale's control plane	Go	8,779
23,937	tailscale-android Tailscale Android Client	Kotlin	2,834
34,463	golink A private shortlink service for tailnets	Go	1,976
54,790	tailscale-rs Rust implementation of Tailscale (preview, experimental)	Rust	1,239
66,338	tailscale-synology Synology packages for tailscale.com		998
66,512	caddy-tailscale A highly experimental exploration of integrating Tailscale and Caddy.	Go	995
68,392	github-action A GitHub Action to connect your workflow to your Tailscale network.	TypeScript	965
73,012	hujson HuJSON: JSON for Humans (JWCC: JSON w/ comments and trailing commas)	Go	900
92,103	tsidp A simple OIDC / OAuth Identity Provider (IdP) server for your tailnet.	Go	702
126,250	tailscale-qpkg Package Tailscale client in QPKG		496
127,342	setec A secrets management service that uses Tailscale for access control	Go	491
135,522	depaware depaware makes you aware of your Go dependencies	Go	458
160,471	terraform-provider-tailscale Terraform provider for Tailscale	Go	378
170,974	libtailscale Tailscale C library	Swift	352
180,439	security-policies Security policies for Tailscale		331
187,804	ts-browser-ext	HTML	316
247,767	sqlite work in progress	C	228
280,670	thundersnap Experimental: A Linux container environment where everything is mutable, undo is instant, and cross-machine replication is trivial.	Go	196
295,733	gomodfs GOMODCACHE Go module cache FUSE + NFS + WebDAV + WinFsp filesystem	Go	184
344,664	gitops-acl-action GitOps for your Tailscale ACLs		153
358,173	pam An experimental, work-in-progress PAM module for Tailscale	Rust	146
375,046	tailetc total-memory-cache etcd v3 client	Go	138
386,326	ToBeReviewedBot GitHub App to watch for PRs merged without a reviewer approving.	Go	133
393,432	codespace Tailscale for devcontainers and codespaces	Shell	130
413,983	tailsql A SQL playground service over Tailscale.	Go	122
422,168	wf Package for controlling the Windows firewall (aka Windows Filtering Platform, WFP)	Go	119
469,574	cpc a copy tool	Go	104
480,756	mkctr mkctr: cross platform container builder for go	Go	101
530,463	aperture-cli An agentic coding launcher for Aperture	Go	89
540,157	go-cache-plugin A Go toolchain cache plugin backed by S3.	Go	87
544,989	go-mod-archiver go.mod git archiver	Go	86
577,175	tailscale-client-go A client implementation for the Tailscale HTTP API	Go	80
626,802	hyscale Hytale on Tailscale Server Manager	Go	72
648,236	terraform-cloudinit-tailscale Userdata configuration for Tailscale to use in your cloud server	HCL	69
648,236	ts-plug one line to plug any server into your tailnet!	Go	69
696,099	accessbot	TypeScript	63
713,763	tailscale-client-go-v2	Go	61
723,106	art implementation of the Allotment Routing Table (ART) algorithm by Donald Knuth, as described in the paper by Yoichi Hariguchi	Go	60
809,287	tmemes A meme generator for your tailnet!	Go	52
809,287	squibble A lightweight schema manager for SQLite databases.	Go	52
821,506	tailscale-skill Skills for teaching agents how to use and build on the Tailscale platform.		51
821,506	tailcat-for-minecraft	Java	51

Among 94,827 organizations

63k–100k stars: 206 organizations, including tailscale

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Stars along the bottom, and organizations in each band on a log scale

Where the stars are

tailscale 38.9k, 60%tailcat 8.8k, 14%tailscale-android 2.8k, 4%

26 more repos 2.7k, 4%

golink 2k, 3%tailscale-rs 1.2k, 2%tailscale-synology 998, 2%caddy-tailscale 995, 2%github-action 965, 2%hujson 900, 1%tsidp 702, 1%

Smaller repos 520, 1%

tailscale-qpkg 496, 1%setec 491, 1%depaware 458, 1%terraform-provider-tailscale 378, 1%libtailscale 352, 1%security-policies 331, 1%ts-browser-ext 316, <1%

Languages

Go 55.4k stars, 86% · 27 repos
Kotlin 2.8k stars, 4% · 1 repo
Rust 1.4k stars, 2% · 2 repos
TypeScript 1k stars, 2% · 2 repos
Swift 352 stars, 1% · 1 repo
HTML 316 stars, <1% · 1 repo
C 228 stars, <1% · 1 repo
Shell 130 stars, <1% · 1 repo

and 2 more languages

When they were made

43 repos with 50+ stars, made between 2019 and 2026

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Quick stats

Next rank: +117 stars to reach #408
Next milestone: +126,413 stars to reach the top 0.1%
Public repos: 86, 43 with 50+ stars
Popular repos: 5 over 1k stars, 1 over 10k stars
Top repo: tailscale, #820 of all repos, 60% of stars
Smaller repos: 520 stars from repos under 50