https://github.com/andrew-bekhiet/railway_tailscale_vpn

Host personal VPN on Railway using Tailscale
https://github.com/andrew-bekhiet/railway_tailscale_vpn

railway tailscale tailscaled vpn-server

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Host personal VPN on Railway using Tailscale

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/andrew-bekhiet/railway_tailscale_vpn
• Owner: Andrew-Bekhiet
• License: apache-2.0
• Created: 2023-02-10T15:00:14.000Z (over 2 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2024-10-27T21:32:20.000Z (8 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-04-09T17:14:30.638Z (2 months ago)
• Topics: railway, tailscale, tailscaled, vpn-server
• Language: Dockerfile
• Homepage: https://railway.app/new/template/uIBpGp?referralCode=androidquartz
• Size: 228 KB
• Stars: 44
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 17
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# Railway Tailscale VPN

## Overview

Host personal VPN on Railway using Tailscale

[![Deploy on Railway](https://railway.app/button.svg)](https://railway.app/new/template/uIBpGp?referralCode=androidquartz)

## How to setup

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](./readme-screenshots/admin_console_keys.png)

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

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

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

5. Go to railway and paste in the key in TAILSCALE_AUTHKEY variable

6. Deploy!

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

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

8. Disable key expiry for the machine you just deployed

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

9. Use this command to connect to your VPN

    ```sh

    tailscale up --exit-node railway-app # or replace railway-app with your hostname

    ```

## More Info

[Tailscale](https://tailscale.com/)

[Tailscale Exit nodes](https://tailscale.com/kb/1103/exit-nodes/)

[Using Tailscale Auth Keys](https://tailscale.com/kb/1085/auth-keys/)