How The Home Depot Built Workload Connectivity with Tailscale

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Senior engineers from The Home Depot detail their journey building a workload connectivity platform using Tailscale to connect Kubernetes clusters, cloud environments, data centers, and 2,300+ retail stores. This deep-dive covers why their initial Kubernetes-centric design became too complex, the new architecture leveraging Tailscale for service discovery and secure access, SPIFFE identity integration, and using subnet routers and 4via6 to connect legacy on-premises systems. Advanced practitioners will benefit from production lessons including achieving 99.999% availability and analyzing two significant incidents involving netmap churn and silent subnet router failures.