--- title: "Build Your Own VPN With Tailscale" url: https://daily.dev/posts/build-your-own-vpn-with-tailscale-h7ufd7plh source_url: https://www.milanjovanovic.tech/blog/build-your-own-vpn-with-tailscale type: article source: "Milan Jovanović" published: 2026-07-03T23:59:31.652Z updated: 2026-07-04T04:21:01.856Z tags: ["docker", "postgresql", "networking", "tailscale"] reading_time: 5 upvotes: 6 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Build Your Own VPN With Tailscale **[Milan Jovanović](https://daily.dev/sources/milanjovanovic)** · 5 min read · 6 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Tailscale lets you connect your servers, PCs, and phones into a private mesh network (tailnet) built on WireGuard, so internal services like databases, dashboards, and admin panels are never exposed to the public internet. The guide walks through installing Tailscale on two VPS machines, binding Docker services (Postgres, Grafana, a .NET API) to tailnet IPs instead of 0.0.0.0, closing all public firewall ports including SSH, and reaching everything from your local machine by tailnet hostname. The result is zero open ports, no TLS certificates needed for internal traffic, and no reverse proxies for private services. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Build Your Own VPN With Tailscale](https://daily.dev/posts/build-your-own-vpn-with-tailscale-ctckofnoi) · Milan Jovanović · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Tailscale replaced my entire networking setup, and I finally stopped dreading new services](https://daily.dev/posts/tailscale-replaced-my-entire-networking-setup-and-i-finally-stopped-dreading-new-services-taswqwfah) · XDA Developers · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#docker](https://daily.dev/tags/docker), [#postgresql](https://daily.dev/tags/postgresql), [#networking](https://daily.dev/tags/networking), [#tailscale](https://daily.dev/tags/tailscale) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/build-your-own-vpn-with-tailscale-h7ufd7plh)