Add Tailscale to Ubuntu 24.04 VM

How to add Tailscale to a Ubuntu VM

Scenario: Ubuntu 24.04 server running in a VM on a proxmox host

Add Tailscale’s GPG key

sudo mkdir -p --mode=0755 /usr/share/keyrings
curl -fsSL https://pkgs.tailscale.com/stable/ubuntu/noble.noarmor.gpg | sudo tee /usr/share/keyrings/tailscale-archive-keyring.gpg >/dev/null

Add the tailscale repository

curl -fsSL https://pkgs.tailscale.com/stable/ubuntu/noble.tailscale-keyring.list | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/tailscale.list

Install Tailscale

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install tailscale

Start Tailscale!

sudo tailscale up

Login to Tailscale account and accept connection

Done