rscale

rscale is a self-hosted control plane written in Rust for operating a single tailnet with Tailscale clients.

It is positioned as a Rust alternative to headscale, with PostgreSQL-backed state, embedded DERP/STUN support, a management API, and a static admin console.

Capabilities

• TS2021 control-plane compatibility
• Node registration, map streaming, and session handling
• Auth key management
• ACL / grants / SSH policy distribution
• Route advertisement and approval
• DNS and DERP map distribution
• Embedded DERP relay, websocket DERP, mesh, and STUN
• PostgreSQL persistence, migrations, backup, and restore
• Static-export admin console hosted by the backend