Railway Tailscale VPN

Overview

Host personal VPN on Railway using Tailscale

To get started, you should create an account on tailscale, if you already have an account skip to next step
Go to you tailscale admin console settings then to keys
Click on 'Generate auth key ...'
Give you key a description then click 'Generate key' when you are finished

Remember to take a note of the key because you'll see it only once
Go to railway and paste in the key in TAILSCALE_AUTHKEY variable
Deploy!
Go to your tailscale machines and approve railway-app as an exit node
Disable key expiry for the machine you just deployed

Use this command to connect to your VPN

tailscale up --exit-node railway-app # or replace railway-app with your hostname