https://github.com/anarchist-network/paas-vpn

Tailscale VPN on PaaS hostings such as railway, render, back4app and etc.
https://github.com/anarchist-network/paas-vpn

back4app back4app-containers docker dockerfile heroku heroku-deployment paas paas-services render-deployment tailscale tailscale-network uptimerobot uptimerobot-monitors vpn

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Tailscale VPN on PaaS hostings such as railway, render, back4app and etc.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/anarchist-network/paas-vpn
• Owner: Anarchist-Network
• License: gpl-3.0
• Created: 2024-07-13T20:47:49.000Z (almost 2 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2024-07-20T09:24:27.000Z (almost 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-04-09T17:13:20.141Z (about 1 year ago)
• Topics: back4app, back4app-containers, docker, dockerfile, heroku, heroku-deployment, paas, paas-services, render-deployment, tailscale, tailscale-network, uptimerobot, uptimerobot-monitors, vpn
• Language: Dockerfile
• Homepage:
• Size: 414 KB
• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 0
• Forks: 4
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# Tailscale VPN on PaaS

[Tailscale VPN](https://tailscale.com) on PaaS hostings such as railway, render, back4app and etc.

### [!] Please, read this

This repository was created as a fork of https://github.com/render-examples/tailscale/ and https://github.com/Andrew-Bekhiet/railway_tailscale_vpn

# Setup manually

1. To get started, you should create an account on [tailscale](https://tailscale.com), if you already have an account skip to next step

2. Go to you tailscale admin console settings then to [keys](https://login.tailscale.com/admin/settings/keys)

3. Click on 'Generate auth key ...'

    ![admin_console_keys.png](./screenshots/admin_console_keys.png)

4. Give you key a description then click 'Generate key' when you are finished

    ![generating_auth_key.png](./screenshots/generating_auth_key.png)

    Remember to take a note of the key because you'll see it only once

5. Go to [render](https://render.com), choose region and set Docker as a language

    ![region.png](./screenshots/region.png)

6. Set free instance type

    ![instance.png](./screenshots/instance.png)

7. create TAILSCALE_AUTHKEY variable with your authkey as a value in enviroment variables and deploy.

    

    ![variable.png](./screenshots/variable.png)

8. Go to your tailscale machines and approve railway-app as an exit node

    ![approve_exit_node.png](./screenshots/approve_exit_node.png)

9. Disable key expiry for the machine you just deployed

    ![disable_key_expiry.png](./screenshots/disable_key_expiry.png)

10. Click copy to clipboard, then create a monitor on [uptimerobot](https://uptimerobot.com) to keep your service alive 24/7.

    

    ![url.png](./screenshots/url.png)



### [!] This method works with [back4app](https://back4app.com) and other PaaS like [render](https://render.com) too.