Headscale
An open source, self-hosted implementation of the Tailscale control server
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- Activity
- Recent commits, releases, changelog, package, and product-motion signals.
- Reliability
- Maintenance posture from recency, release evidence, availability, and repo signals.
- Adoption
- Public footprint from GitHub stars, forks, and watchers when available.
- Sustainability
- Longer-term posture combining health, activity, adoption, confidence, and decay risk.
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What ToolVitals knows about Headscale
An open source, self-hosted implementation of the Tailscale control server
This tool has an OSI-approved open-source license signal.
Maintenance and shipping signals are strong.
GitHub Activity
- Primary Language
- Go
- Last Commit
- Today
- Releases 90d
- 8
- Default Branch
- main
- License
- BSD-3-Clause
- Repository Status
- Active repository
Signal Quality
ConfidenceHigh-confidence score from multiple public signals.
Zombie RiskNo meaningful zombie signal right now.
License Evidence
- Class
- OSI-approved OSS
- License
- BSD-3-Clause
This tool has an OSI-approved open-source license signal.
Tracked Sources
Classification
- Category
- Security
- Use Case
- VPN & Network Security
- Openness
- OSI-approved OSS
- License
- BSD-3-Clause
- Tool Mode
- Source-visible project
- Score Model
- Open Source Maintenance
- Score Visibility
- Scored Intelligence
- Status
- Active
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