asilvame/demo-tailscale-with-gitpod

Ever wondered how to configure Tailscale with Gitpod to enable secure and ephemeral developer environments in the cloud? Here's how...

Tailscale with Gitpod

Tailscale allows Gitpod CDE workspaces to access private private resources such as databases, S3 buckets, local services, etc.

Demo

Tailscale setup:

• Signup for a new A Tailscale account
• Navigate to your Tailscale Machines tab and copy the IP address of the example hello application

• Verify that reaching the example Tailscale hello application via ping fails.

Gitpod workspace

• Click the button below to start a new development environment:

• Login to your Tailscale account when prompted from the Gitpod workspace terminal:

To authenticate, visit:
        https://login.tailscale.com/a/XXXXXXXXXXXX

• Verify that reaching the example Tailscale hello application via ping succeeds.