Tailscale for DevOps: On-demand access to your Tailscale resources with Indent

Tailscale, in partnership with Indent, offers a solution for managing on-demand and time-bound access to sensitive production resources. This approach is particularly useful for distributed teams, allowing access based on job functions and on-call status rather than persistent access. Tailscale's Access Control Lists (ACLs) define access rules as code, and Indent integrates with Tailscale to allow users to request and gain temporary access through Slack, ensuring compliance with frameworks like SOC 2. The collaboration facilitates secure management of resources by enabling automatic or reviewed approvals, logging requests, and revoking access after a set period, thus adhering to the principle of least privilege. This setup allows teams to react quickly to incidents, perform necessary tasks like debugging, and manage permissions efficiently without maintaining continuous access to production environments.