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Exposing Local Development Servers Securely with Tailscale Serve

Exposing Local Development Servers Securely with Tailscale Serve Sometimes you need a local service reachable from another device, maybe to test something on a phone, show work-in-progress to a teammate, or run an integration test across machines. Tools like ngrok have been the go-to solution, but there’s a simpler option if you already use Tailscale: Tailscale Serve. This post covers how I used Tailscale Serve to make a local Dockerized Rails + Ember setup available from my laptop, without editing my docker-compose.yml. ...

September 24, 2025 · 2 min · 417 words · Okan Binli