Announcing Identity Lifecycle Management

ConductorOne docs

Set up a Tailscale connector

ConductorOne provides identity governance and just-in-time provisioning for Tailscale. Integrate your Tailscale instance with ConductorOne to run user access reviews (UARs), enable just-in-time access requests, and automatically provision and deprovision access.

Capabilities

  • Sync user identities from Tailscale to ConductorOne

  • Resources supported:

    • Groups
    • ACL rules
    • SSH rules
  • Provisioning supported:

    • Group membership
    • ACL rules
    • SSH rules

Add a new Tailscale connector

This task requires either the Connector Administrator or Super Administrator role in ConductorOne.

  1. In ConductorOne, click Connectors > Add connector.

  2. Search for Tailscale and click Add.

  3. Choose how to set up the new Tailscale connector:

    • Add the connector to a currently unmanaged app (select from the list of apps that were discovered in your identity, SSO, or federation provider that aren’t yet managed with ConductorOne)

    • Add the connector to a managed app (select from the list of existing managed apps)

    • Create a new managed app

    Do you SSO into Tailscale using your identity, SSO, or federation provider? If so, make sure to add the connector to the unmanaged Tailscale app that was created automatically when you integrated your provider with ConductorOne, rather than creating a new managed app.

  1. Set the owner for this connector. You can manage the connector yourself, or choose someone else from the list of ConductorOne users. Setting multiple owners is allowed.

    A Tailscale connector owner must have the following permissions:

    • Connector Administrator or Super Administrator role in ConductorOne
    • Admin role in Tailscale
  1. Click Next.

Next steps

  • If you are the connector owner, proceed to Configure your Tailscale connector for instructions on integrating Tailscale with ConductorOne.

  • If someone else is the connector owner, ConductorOne will notify them by email that their help is needed to complete the setup process.

Configure your Tailscale connector

A user with the Connector Administrator or Super Administrator role in ConductorOne and Admin role in Tailscale must perform this task.

Step 1: Generate a New API Key

  1. Log into Tailscale as an Admin user and click Settings.

  2. Click Keys.

  3. Click Generate API key. A Generated new key window opens showing the full value of the newly created key.

  4. Copy the API key.

Step 2: Add your Tailscale Credentials to ConductorOne

  1. In ConductorOne, navigate to the Tailscale connector by either:

    • Clicking the Set up connector link in the email you received about configuring the connector.

    • Navigate to Connectors > Tailscale (if there is more than one Tailscale listed, click the one with your name listed as owner and the status Not connected).

  2. Find the Settings area of the page and click Edit.

  3. Paste the API key you generated in Step 1 into the Tailscale API key field.

  4. In the Tailnet field, enter the name of your Tailscale network.

    • You can find the name of your Tailnet in the top left corner of the Tailscale Admin Panel, next to the Tailscale logo.
  5. Click Save.

  6. The connector’s label changes to Syncing, followed by Connected. You can view the logs to ensure that information is syncing.

That’s it! Your Tailscale connector is now pulling access data into ConductorOne.

Configure the Tailscale integration using Terraform

As an alternative to the integration process described above, you can use Terraform to configure the integration between Tailscale and ConductorOne.

See the ConductorOne Tailscale integration resource page in the ConductorOne Terraform registry for example usage and the full list of required and optional parameters.