From Tailnet to platform (Changelog Interviews #679)

Tailscale's Chief Strategy Officer David Carney discusses the company's evolving strategy, particularly at the "edge" of their network-as-a-service platform. He defines Tailscale as a connectivity platform enabling secure, private mesh networks and highlights the TSIDP project, which creates a local identity provider within a tailnet, enabling clickless authentication for services like Proxmox. Carney also introduces Aperture, an AI gateway built on TSNet, designed to solve API key management and provide observability into AI usage within organizations. The conversation explores the potential for self-hosted identity solutions and the challenges of balancing velocity with data sovereignty, as well as the future of network isolation using multi-tailnets.