From b09fabcbedb41622a8fa97d966388399b1132d19 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Brian Palmer <brianp@tailscale.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2025 09:05:57 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] CI: fix the connection check

Checking for hello is not the best way to verify that Tailscale is connected, and it recently broke because we stopped giving ephemeral nodes access to hello.

Instead, check for connection by parsing the status output as recommended in our KB article https://tailscale.com/kb/1073/hello
---
 .github/workflows/tailscale.yml | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/tailscale.yml b/.github/workflows/tailscale.yml
index 40fd822..5f85d70 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/tailscale.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/tailscale.yml
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ jobs:
           oauth-secret: ${{ secrets.TS_OAUTH_SECRET }}
           tags: tag:ci
 
-      - name: check for hello.ts.net in netmap
+      - name: check for tailscale connection
         shell: bash
         run:
-          tailscale status | grep -q hello
+          tailscale status -json | jq -r .BackendState | grep -q Running