Tailscale Announces Public Availability of Customer-Managed Peer Relays
By
seemaze
Slow-proofed and worth the wait. Worth its weight in flour.
Summary
Tailscale announces public availability of Peer Relays, a customer-deployed and managed traffic relaying mechanism that allows Tailscale nodes to relay traffic for other nodes on the same tailnet. Unlike Tailscale's managed DERP relays, Peer Relays are customer-managed, less throughput-constrained, and can provide higher throughput connections for traffic to and from locked-down cloud infrastructure. The feature enables nodes to advertise themselves as peer relays and only works for nodes within the same tailnet that have access to the peer relay.
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By advertising itself as a peer relay, a Tailscale node can relay traffic for any peer nodes on the tailnet, even for traffic bound to itself.
Because they're managed entirely by the customer, peer relays are less throughput-constrained than Tailscale's managed DERP relays, and can provide higher throughput connections for traffic to and from locked-down cloud infrastructure.
Tailscale Peer Relays can only relay traffic for nodes on your tailnet, and only for nodes that have access to the peer relay.
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