<story><title>About the Tailscale.com outage on March 7, 2024</title><url>https://tailscale.com/blog/tls-outage-20240307</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>smackeyacky</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve said it before and I&amp;#x27;ll say it again:  expiring certs are the new DNS for outages.&lt;p&gt;I still marvel at just how good Tailscale is.  I&amp;#x27;m a minor user really but I have two sites that I use tailscale to access:  a couple of on-prem servers and my AWS production setup.&lt;p&gt;I can literally work from anywhere - had an issue over the weekend where I was trying to deploy an ECS container but the local wifi was so slow that the deploy kept timing out.&lt;p&gt;I simply SSH&amp;#x27;d over to my on-prem development machine, did a git pull of the latest code and did the deploy from there.  All while remaining secure with no open ports at all on my on-prem system and none in AWS. Can even do testing against the production Aurora database without any open ports on it, simply run a tailscale agent in AWS on a nano sized EC2.&lt;p&gt;Got another developer you need to give access to your network to?  Tailscale makes that trivial (as it does revoking them).&lt;p&gt;Yeah, for that deployment I could just make a GitHub action or something and avoid the perils of terrible internet, but for this I like to do it manually and Tailscale lets me do just that.</text></comment>
<story><title>About the Tailscale.com outage on March 7, 2024</title><url>https://tailscale.com/blog/tls-outage-20240307</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lmeyerov</author><text>Expiring certs strikes again!&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;d recommend as part of the post mortem to move their install script off their marketing site or putting in some other fallback so marketing site activity is unrelated to customer operations critical path. They&amp;#x27;re almost there for maintaining that typical isolation, which helps bc this kind of thing is common.&lt;p&gt;We track uptime of our various providers, and seeing bits like the GitHub or Zendesk sites go down is more common than we expected... and they&amp;#x27;re the good cases.</text></comment>