Comparisons
DockTail compared.
DockTail is an open-source agent that publishes Docker containers as native Tailscale Services, configured with Docker labels. DockTail Cloud is the optional hosted monitoring on top of it. Each page below says plainly where the alternative is the better pick.
By product
Two products, compared separately.
The agent is compared with other ways of getting a container onto a network. Cloud is compared with the monitor you might already run next to it.
DockTail (the agent)
Getting Docker containers onto a tailnet, or onto the internet.
- DockTail vs TSDProxy TSDProxy v2 gives each container its own tailnet device (v3, in beta, adds an opt-in Services mode); DockTail publishes Tailscale Services from one host. /vs/tsdproxy/
- DockTail vs ScaleTail ScaleTail is a set of Compose templates that give each app its own Tailscale sidecar device; DockTail publishes existing containers as Tailscale Services through labels. /vs/scaletail/
- DockTail vs tsbridge tsbridge proxies each service onto the tailnet as its own embedded tsnet node; DockTail advertises Tailscale Services through the host's Tailscale. /vs/tsbridge/
- DockTail vs plain Tailscale Services Tailscale Services work without DockTail: you define and serve each one by hand. DockTail runs the serve side from Docker labels and, given an OAuth client, creates the definitions; tags and approval stay with you. /vs/tailscale-services/
- DockTail vs DockFlare DockFlare puts containers on public hostnames through Cloudflare Tunnel; DockTail publishes them on your tailnet. /vs/dockflare/
DockTail Cloud (monitoring)
Knowing when those services break, and why.