pulumi-tailscale
A Pulumi package for creating and managing Tailscale cloud resources.
Decision gist · record as of 2026-08-14
Yes, if you use Pulumi for infrastructure and need to manage Tailscale resources programmatically. The package is actively maintained, has low install friction, carries no known vulnerabilities, and uses a permissive license. Install it as a standard Pulumi provider dependency when your infrastructure code needs to declare or update Tailscale network resources.AI-flagged interpretation of the facts on this page — verify before relying
Before you install
- Requires Python >=3.9 and Tailscale API credentials (API key or OAuth client credentials) set via environment variables or Pulumi config.
- Low friction: pure Python wheel with four lightweight runtime dependencies (parver, pulumi, semver, typing-extensions).
- Actively maintained with a recent release 32 days ago and no known vulnerabilities.
License · maintenance · safety
Apache-2.0 (permissive) — Apache-2.0 is permissive: you can use, modify, and distribute this package freely in commercial and private projects, with minimal obligations beyond retaining the license notice.
last release 2026-07-13 (32 days) · last repo commit 2026-08-14 · 24 stars
0 known vulnerabilities (OSV.dev, 2026-08-14) · 424,970 downloads/mo, #6,762 on PyPI
Alternatives
Verify before relying
pip install pulumi_tailscale
import pulumi
import pulumi_tailscale as tailscale
# Requires TAILSCALE_API_KEY and TAILSCALE_TAILNET environment variables
device = tailscale.Device("my-device", ...)- Exact list of Tailscale resource types (devices, users, DNS, ACLs, etc.) supported by version 0.29.0.
- Whether this provider supports all Tailscale API features or a subset; scope of coverage relative to the full Tailscale API.
- Performance characteristics or limits when managing large numbers of Tailscale resources.
What it is and what it does
pulumi-tailscale is a Pulumi resource provider that bridges Tailscale's API into Pulumi's infrastructure-as-code framework. It lets you define Tailscale network resources—devices, users, DNS records, access control policies—declaratively in Python (or other Pulumi-supported languages) and manage them as part of a larger infrastructure stack. You write Python code using Pulumi's resource model, and the provider translates those declarations into Tailscale API calls.
The package depends on pulumi as its core framework, plus parver and semver for version handling, and typing-extensions for runtime type hints. It requires Python 3.9 or later and authentication via either a Tailscale API key or OAuth client credentials, both supplied through environment variables or Pulumi configuration. With no known vulnerabilities, active maintenance, and a permissive Apache-2.0 license, it's a straightforward addition to a Pulumi-based infrastructure workflow.
Use it for
- Provision and manage Tailscale devices and network access as part of a larger infrastructure-as-code deployment.
- Automate DNS and access control policy updates across your Tailscale network using Pulumi stacks.
- Integrate Tailscale resource management into CI/CD pipelines that already use Pulumi for infrastructure.
- Define multi-environment Tailscale configurations (dev, staging, prod) in code and deploy them consistently.
- Track Tailscale network state in version control and collaborate on network changes via code review.
Worth the install?
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Yes, if you use Pulumi for infrastructure and need to manage Tailscale resources programmatically.
The package is actively maintained, has low install friction, carries no known vulnerabilities, and uses a permissive license. Install it as a standard Pulumi provider dependency when your infrastructure code needs to declare or update Tailscale network resources.
Install
pulumi-tailscale on PyPI
Before you install
Low friction: pure Python wheel with four lightweight runtime dependencies (parver, pulumi, semver, typing-extensions). Actively maintained with a recent release 32 days ago and no known vulnerabilities.
Requires Python >=3.9 and Tailscale API credentials (API key or OAuth client credentials) set via environment variables or Pulumi config.
License in practice
Apache-2.0 is permissive: you can use, modify, and distribute this package freely in commercial and private projects, with minimal obligations beyond retaining the license notice.
Quickstart
pip install pulumi_tailscale
import pulumi
import pulumi_tailscale as tailscale
# Requires TAILSCALE_API_KEY and TAILSCALE_TAILNET environment variables
device = tailscale.Device("my-device", ...)Verify before relying
- Exact list of Tailscale resource types (devices, users, DNS, ACLs, etc.) supported by version 0.29.0.
- Whether this provider supports all Tailscale API features or a subset; scope of coverage relative to the full Tailscale API.
- Performance characteristics or limits when managing large numbers of Tailscale resources.
Package facts
| License | Apache-2.0 permissive |
| Python support | Supports the current Python release >=3.9 |
| Install friction | Low. Pure-Python wheel |
| Runtime dependencies | 4 packagesparverpulumisemvertyping-extensions |
| Maintenance | Actively maintained 32 days since the last release |
| Last repo commit | |
| First released | |
| Downloads | 424,970 / month, #6,762 on PyPI 30-day window, as of 2026-08-14 |
| Known vulnerabilities | None known OSV.dev, checked 2026-08-14 |
Evidence: pulumi_tailscale-0.29.0-py3-none-any.whl
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