datasette-tailscale 0.1a0

Simon Willison · Simon Willison · 2026-06-16

Simon Willison releases datasette-tailscale 0.1a0, an experimental Python plugin that exposes a local Datasette instance to a Tailscale network via a single CLI command using the tailscale-rs Rust bindings.

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Simon Willison's AI-Augmented Datasette Ecosystem: Agent, Apps, and Plugins

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Topics: datasettetailscalepython-pluginsopen-source-toolingdeveloper-networking

Claims

datasette-tailscale uses Python bindings for the experimental tailscale-rs Rust library.
The plugin allows a local Datasette server to be accessible over a Tailnet with a single command.
The release is a very early alpha (0.1a0) with experimental status.

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datasette tailscale mydata.db --ts-authkey tskey-auth-xxxx --ts-hostname datasette-preview