Tailscale for developers: Connect to your resources from GitHub Codespaces

Tailscale provides a seamless way for developers utilizing GitHub Codespaces to maintain access to essential resources while working in remote development environments. By integrating Tailscale into a development container, developers can ensure consistent connectivity to their tailnet, facilitating collaboration and access to internal tools and services. This setup involves adding a Tailscale client and using a reusable authentication key, which can be stored as a Codespaces secret, to maintain persistent connections across different environments. This integration allows developers to share resources, pair program, and access production databases securely, as demonstrated by Jasper, a real estate investment company using Tailscale for efficient and secure development processes. Tailscale's compatibility with GitHub extends beyond Codespaces, enabling authentication through GitHub accounts and supporting secure operations via GitHub Actions, while also being applicable to development containers in environments beyond GitHub Codespaces.