tailscale-py 0.2.0

Work-in-progress Tailscale library written in Rust.

ts_python

Python bindings for tailscale-rs.

At the moment, this exposes facilities for connecting to a tailnet and binding network sockets that have access to the tailnet.

Code Sample

import asyncio
import tailscale


async def main():
    # connect to the tailnet:
    dev = await tailscale.connect('tsrs_state.json', "tskey-auth-$MY_AUTH_KEY")

    # bind a udp socket on this node's ipv4 address:
    tailnet_ipv4 = await dev.ipv4_addr()
    udp_sock = await dev.udp_bind((tailnet_ipv4, 1234))
    print(f'udp bound, local endpoint: {udp_sock.local_addr()}')

    # send a message to a peer once per second
    while True:
        await udp_sock.sendto(('1.2.3.4', 5678), msg=b"HELLO")
        print("sent message to peer")
        await asyncio.sleep(1)


if __name__ == "__main__":
    asyncio.run(main())

To run this demo:

$ TS_RS_EXPERIMENT=this_is_unstable_software python demo.py

Building and Usage

We're not up on pypi, so you can't pip install tailscale yet. To use the module, you'll need to build it. The best way to do that is with maturin:

# In the project where you want to use the tailscale bindings:
$ python -m virtualenv .venv
$ . .venv/bin/activate
$ pip install maturin

# Then in tailscale-rs:
$ cd ~/tailscale-rs/ts_python # use your path to a local clone of tailscale-rs
$ maturin develop             # build and install python bindings into your virtualenv

$ python -c 'import tailscale' && echo "ready!" # bindings are available!