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# Welcome to headscale

Headscale is an open source, self-hosted implementation of the Tailscale control server.

This page contains the documentation for the latest version of headscale. Please also check our FAQ.

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## Design goal

Headscale aims to implement a self-hosted, open source alternative to the Tailscale control server. Headscale's goal is to provide self-hosters and hobbyists with an open-source server they can use for their projects and labs. It implements a narrow scope, a single Tailscale network (tailnet), suitable for a personal use, or a small open-source organisation.

## Supporting headscale

Please see Sponsor for more information.

## Contributing

Headscale is "Open Source, acknowledged contribution", this means that any contribution will have to be discussed with the Maintainers before being submitted.

Please see Contributing for more information.

## About

Headscale is maintained by Kristoffer Dalby and Juan Font.