tailscale-derp

Helm chart and container image for running tailscale DERP servers.

Tailscale offers documentation for running custom DERP servers.

The helm chart is availble in ./chart/tailscale-derp and it's supporting container image can be found in Docker.

The container image follows tailscale's upstream version.

Getting Started

TL;DR

helm install tailscale-derp oci://ghcr.io/coreweave/tailscale-derp/chart/tailscale-derp

Installing the Chart

To install the chart with the release name tailscale-derp

helm install tailscale-derp oci://ghcr.io/coreweave/tailscale-derp/chart/tailscale-derp

Uninstalling the Chart

To uninstall the tailscale-derp deployment

helm uninstall tailscale-derp

The command removes all the Kubernetes components associated with the chart and deletes the release.

Configuration

Read through the values.yaml file. It has several commented out suggested values. DERP_* enviroment variables are arguments passed down to the derper binary.

Specify each parameter using the --set key=value[,key=value] argument to helm install.

helm install tailscale-derp \
  --set derpServerHostname="your-hostname.com" \
    oci://ghcr.io/coreweave/tailscale-derp/chart/tailscale-derp

Alternatively, a YAML file that specifies the values for the above parameters can be provided while installing the chart.

helm install tailscale-derp oci://ghcr.io/coreweave/tailscale-derp/chart/tailscale-derp -f values.yaml