Tagged: Tailscale

February 26, 2026 ·

Aperture and the Tagged-Device Identity Gap

Figuring out why half our tailnet couldn't talk to our AI gateway. Aperture has two separate auth layers, and tagged devices are invisible to one of them.

Figuring out why half our tailnet couldn't talk to our AI gateway. Setting the scene We run a small fleet of AI agents on Kubernetes. Three agents...

February 26, 2026 ·

Bootstrapping Aperture Config with tsnet

A throwaway Go program, an ephemeral node, and a five-minute escape hatch. Using tsnet to bootstrap Tailscale Aperture when all devices are tagged.

A throwaway Go program, an ephemeral node, and a fiveminute escape hatch. Where we left off Part 1 ended with us locked out of Aperture. Every device...