There's no shortage of talk about AI. The harder part is what comes after your teams start using it: who's using what, how much of it, and how it's made secure. We're kicking off a new Aperture demo series, starting with the basics: what Aperture is, and what it brings to your AI stack.

Last week looked a little like this 📸 A few of our favorite moments from WeAreDevelopers. Until next time, Berlin. 🇩🇪

Before you add another rule, take a look at your policy file. Join the Tailscale team at #TailscaleUp26 for a hands-on session on locking things down without locking people out: least-privilege grants, production/staging segmentation, PAM, and device posture checks. Register → buff.ly/pmjfxhx

Learn how platform teams are balancing self-service access for developers with security and operational consistency across Kubernetes clusters. Join Krumware, Tigera, and Tailscale on July 14. Register → buff.ly/uQUWlx3

Love using Tailscale? We're looking for passionate community members who want to connect with other technical experts, share feedback, and help grow the Tailscale community. Applications are open year-round. Our next Insider group joins at the end of July. Apply → tailscale.com/insiders-pro...

Many Tailscale deployments start the same way: someone tries it in a homelab, then brings it to work. At #TailscaleUp, GoFundMe CISO John Downey shares how they replaced legacy VPNs with Tailscale and what they learned along the way. Register today → buff.ly/5VuRrlX

Running AI agents in production? Audit trails shouldn't stop at prompts and responses. Aperture records administrator access to AI activity, making it easier to investigate who accessed what, and when. Learn more → buff.ly/JuCGfNS

Annnd we're live! Join Fred and Alex Kretzschmar, Head of Developer Relations at Tailscale, as they talk all things developer relations and show how Tailscale Serve makes local apps privately reachable by default. Tune in: buff.ly/N5dujmI

The best observability tools aren't much help if they can't securely reach your private infrastructure. See how Grafana Labs connects Grafana Cloud to private data sources with Tailscale at #TailscaleUp26. Register → buff.ly/5VuRrlX

Provision developer environments without passing around auth keys. Device Provisioning with OAuth Apps lets you spin up VMs, workspaces, and more under each user's Tailscale identity, keeping access tied to the right user. Learn how it works → buff.ly/MJsv675

Shared credentials have a habit of creating headaches later. Border0 + Tailscale brings identity-aware access to databases, Kubernetes clusters, SSH servers, RDP sessions, and internal apps so every connection is tied to a specific identity. Now available as a free trial. Learn more →

What does secure access look like at GitHub? Join their TailscaleUp session for a behind-the-scenes look at Tailnet Lock, identity-based access, ephemeral CI/CD workloads, and the tooling that powers it all. Register for TailscaleUp today → buff.ly/7uq2BDT

Kevin's back with a walkthrough of how he used Tailscale Funnel to put a transit dashboard on his "smart" fridge. Here's a look at how he got there.

It turns out a lot of people still enjoy talking about networking after work. Next week, we'll be at the AI Engineer World's Fair Afterparty swapping stories, comparing notes, and meeting fellow infrastructure folks. See you there 👉 luma.com/2avil0ni

Tailscale on a jailbroken Kindle? Pretty cool, on its own. But we noticed that this amazing community project has gotten even cooler lately, adding proxies to its bag of tricks. Check out what’s new at our blog 👉 buff.ly/6KszJki

This is a boring kind of feature in the best way possible: Tailscale logs now stream to Azure Blob Storage. Logs just go where you need them to go. Configure it today → buff.ly/AT5V9HX

TailscaleUp starts a day early. Join us for Day 0 Community Day: real-world user stories, candid conversations with Tailscale engineers, networking and infrastructure career discussions, and behind-the-scenes insights from the teams building Tailscale. See you there → buff.ly/7uq2BDT

Every company building with AI wants the best models, the right data, and the freedom to adapt as things change. The challenge? Connecting it all without vendor lock-in. Meet the latest additions to Aperture. Future-proof your AI today → buff.ly/ltI1e8G

What's one session, topic, or conversation you're looking forward to most?

🟦 Practical technical sessions 🟦 Product demos and roadmap insights 🟦 Conversations with peers and experts Register now, thank yourself later. See you at #TailscaleUp26. buff.ly/8WSeYzp

Is a backup system really a backup if the VPN needed to reach it is offline? Here’s a valuable lesson from a real datacenter outage, and how HP's new Tailscale integration helps keep out-of-band management reachable when it matters most 👉 buff.ly/chScGoK

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Infrastructure isn't getting simpler. That's why we're dedicating a full track at TailscaleUp to the people building, securing, and scaling connectivity. → workload connectivity → CI/CD and machine-to-machine communication → edge infrastructure and distributed systems

A public transit dashboard, a smart fridge, and a surprisingly useful lesson in when to use Funnel vs. Serve. Our latest blog explores which services belong on the public internet and which definitely don't. Read more 👉 buff.ly/GIUkm6P

Still figuring out your Tailscale Up game plan? 👀 Our team has a few mildly biased opinions on must-see sessions. Link to full blog here 👉 buff.ly/aEksEud

LeadDev London is just one week away 🇬🇧 Alsooo, there may or may not be an iPad Air giveaway involved 👀 More of a reason to come find us and say hello! #LDX3London #LeadDevLondon

Your future self (aaand your boss) might thank you for this one. Early bird pricing for TailscaleUp ends soon → save $100 before prices go up. Grab your ticket 👉 buff.ly/vMAZZWC

Jellyfin remote access via Tailscale is easy! Full video here 👉 buff.ly/0GJbFJ7

AI experimentation shouldn’t mean choosing between speed and security. With Aperture CLI, we’re making it easier for teams to experiment, prototype, and build with AI inside their organizations, without adding friction for admins. Read more here → buff.ly/hi8miyM

AI adoption, remote access, and modern infrastructure are reshaping security. TailscaleUp’s Security Track covers: → identity-based access + PAM → AI security → modern remote access Agenda 👉 buff.ly/6Y3OTKb