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First Login

Just received your credentials? Here's how to get started with the console.

Logging In​

  1. Go to console.getbunker.net
  2. Enter your credentials
  3. Click on "Login"

The Interface in Two Minutes​

Dashboard​

This is your home page. You'll find your projects, the state of your resources, current alerts, and some metrics.

Side Menu​

The left menu organizes the essentials:

  • Projects to manage your different projects
  • Resources for your servers, storage, and networks
  • Monitoring for supervision
  • Settings for your account

Top Bar​

In the top right: your profile, notifications, support, and a link to this documentation.

Accessing Your Virtual Machines​

Bunker uses Headscale for SSH access to your VMs. Headscale is an open source, self-hosted version of the Tailscale coordination server.

The coordination server is the component that allows your machines to find each other. When your laptop wants to connect to a VM, it asks the coordination server "where is this machine?". The server gives it the information needed to establish a direct connection. Traffic doesn't pass through the server — it just serves to put machines in contact.

Once in contact, your machines communicate via WireGuard. It's a modern VPN protocol, integrated into the Linux kernel, known for its simplicity and performance. All traffic between your machines is end-to-end encrypted.

At Bunker, this server runs on our infrastructure — your connection metadata never passes through a third party. And your VMs are not exposed on the public Internet: they're only accessible via the Tailscale network.

Install Tailscale​

Tailscale is the client that allows you to join your organization's network.

brew install tailscale

Or download the application from tailscale.com/download/mac

Connect to the Network​

  1. Get your authentication key in the console, in your project's Settings section.

  2. Connect to the Headscale server:

tailscale login --login-server=https://managed-[organization-slug]-headscale-[project-name].apps.getbunker.net:443 --authkey [your-auth-key]

Replace [organization-slug], [project-name], and [your-auth-key] with your values.

  1. Give your machine a name to identify it on the network:
tailscale set --nickname [organization-name]-[project-name]

View Available Machines​

tailscale status

You'll see the list of VMs with their Tailscale IP and status.

Connect via SSH​

With the IP displayed by tailscale status:

ssh user@[tailscale-ip-address]
tip

Tailscale also assigns a DNS name to each machine. Often, ssh user@vm-name is sufficient.

What's Next?​

You now know how to navigate the console and access your VMs. Next step: configure your backups.