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Exposing Local Development Servers Securely with Tailscale Serve

Exposing Local Development Servers Securely with Tailscale Serve As developers, we often need to expose local services to other devices—whether that’s for testing on a phone, sharing work-in-progress with a teammate, or running an integration test across machines. Tools like ngrok have been the go-to solution, but there’s a simpler, more secure option if you already use Tailscale: Tailscale Serve. In this post, I’ll walk through how you can use Tailscale Serve to make a local Dockerized Rails + Ember setup available from your laptop, without editing your docker-compose.yml. ...

September 24, 2025 · 2 min · 420 words · Okan Binli