Host personal VPN on Railway using Tailscale

1. To get started, you should create an account on tailscale, if you already have an account skip to next step

2. Go to you tailscale admin console settings then to keys

3. Click on 'Generate auth key ...'

   

4. Give you key a description then click 'Generate key' when you are finished

   

   Remember to take a note of the key because you'll see it only once

5. Go to railway and paste in the key in TAILSCALE_AUTHKEY variable

6. Deploy!

7. Go to your tailscale machines and approve railway-app as an exit node

   

8. Disable key expiry for the machine you just deployed

   

9. Use this command to connect to your VPN

   tailscale up --exit-node railway-app # or replace railway-app with your hostname

Tailscale

Tailscale Exit nodes

Using Tailscale Auth Keys