Netbird: The Easy to Use Open-Source Wireguard Based Overlay VPN
Netbird is nicer for self-hosting than Headscale to me. Tailscale has not given me a reason to not trust them, but Netbird is where I’ll end up if they ever do.
This is great. Don’t know why the post was downvoted.
This is further evidence this sub is not about real selfhosting. If you made a post saying “Tailscale and Cloudflare good, upvotes to the left” the post would hit the front page.
I appreciate posts about real open source solutions to bypass CGNAT.
I like NetBird’s mission, but the Android app doesn’t work for me so I can’t use it
Netbird is really cool, but I found it an incredible pain (straight-up impossible) to selfhost a while ago and settled for slacks Nebula
Has it gotten easier to Self-Host (manually)? Should I give it another try in your opinion?
I have been running Netbird on an Oracle Free Tier VPS for about 3/4 of a year now and I must say, it’s really really good. 99,9% of selfhosters would be more than satisfied with this solution over Tailscale. One thing that holds back Netbird is its app. That could use some work, even though it works good enough.
Tried it before but while the self hosted installation was better than NetMaker which simply didn’t work, Netbird was still a terrible hit or miss. It’s awesome when it works, but when it doesn’t…
I hope it’s improved now.
NetBird is #2 on my list to self-host next after I give openziti a shot. Always liked what that project was doing.
More options are always good, was already kinda looking at this so thanks for the video!
I’ve been following Netbird for a while and I think it’s good to have more viable Tailscale alternatives. I’ve tried it out a couple times and found it really easy to get running, though I did see some performance issues in comparison to a equivalent tailscale install (I grant, this is most likely a me issue), so I did end up going back to Tailscale for the time being. But I’ll keep checking it out from time to time
Hey, we use it in our company as quite an important component to a very important piece of infrastructure. It’s cool and does what we want it to do.
I am missing the use case… Why as selfhoster should I use Netbird?
I’m just not sure why the “Approve Peer” feature is only available on the cloud hosted version.
Genuine question: what’s the difference between running this and standard wireguard. I administer wireguard through Unifi.
How is this better than Tailscale? Genuine question.
For managing multiple wg servers the mesh overlays are great, but I’ll stick to vanilla wireguard for now. Tailscale was unreliable for me on Android, WG tunnel and WG self hosted resolved my connection needs.
I’m really keen but I am pretty reliant on the mullvad exit node addon in tailscale and this feature doesn’t look like it’s coming anytime soon to netbird
I gave up on Netbird. For some reason the web interface stopped loading, I tried wiping my server and trying again, and it just kept throwing SSL errors. This was a month or two ago. Is it kinda broken or just me?
Been using them for a month and here’s what I have to say.
It’s great, except for the Android app, which rarely gets updates and there’s no option to set VPN on demand.
During my usage, there was one downtime, I had to restart the netbird.service.
Really struggling to get two different networks to talk to each other, I have tried Tailscale, netbird with no luck, basically i have two access controller hardware in two different physical locations, they have different internal IPs 10.0.0.1 and 10.0.1.1, I have a desktop located on one site which has software to manage the controllers, i want to be able to manage both controllers as if they were on the same network. How with netbird? Please help!