Installing Tailscale on Ubuntu Server

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In this part of the series, you’ll learn how to install Tailscale on an Ubuntu Server.

Go to https://login.tailscale.com/start to sign in to Tailscale.

Then install Tailscale as follows.

First, download the package signing keys and add the repository:

Bash
curl -fsSL https://pkgs.tailscale.com/stable/ubuntu/noble.noarmor.gpg | sudo tee /usr/share/keyrings/tailscale-archive-keyring.gpg >/dev/null
curl -fsSL https://pkgs.tailscale.com/stable/ubuntu/noble.tailscale-keyring.list | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/tailscale.list

Output

Output
Tailscale packages for ubuntu noble

deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/tailscale-archive-keyring.gpg] https://pkgs.tailscale.com/stable/ubuntu noble main

Install Tailscale:

Bash
sudo apt update
sudo apt install tailscale -y

Output Extract

XML
The following additional packages will be installed:
tailscale-archive-keyring
The following NEW packages will be installed:
tailscale tailscale-archive-keyring
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.

Then start Tailscale:

Bash
sudo tailscale up

Output

Output
To authenticate, visit:

https://login.tailscale.com/a/xxxxxxxxxxxxx

After opening the link in your browser and completing authentication, Tailscale will ask if you want to connect the client – confirm with yes.

The client is now part of your Tailnet.

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