YAYasuraka·Oct 28, 2026
https://github.com/netbirdio/netbird
Bit more than the basics, but not as much as tailscale.
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NetBird securely connects people, machines and AI agents across any network with one identity-based Zero Trust platform. Powered by peer-to-peer WireGuard®
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NetBird securely connects people, machines and AI agents across any network with one identity-based Zero Trust platform. Powered by peer-to-peer WireGuard®
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1 points · Open discussionThey are considering which is enough for me to not use Netbird.
https://github.com/netbirdio/netbird/issues/1138
In Mullvad founder gave millions to extremist far right partya fully open source alternative would be netbird, it's based on wireguard as well, has 0 closed components but lacks some features (like IPv6 or internal CA).
https://github.com/netbirdio/netbird
In Stop Doom Scrolling, Start Doom Coding: Build via the terminal from your phone> Tailscale and Pangolin are godsends to easily and safely self-host from your home.
Instead of Tailscale, I can highly recommend self-hosting netbird[1] - very active project, works great and the UI is awesome!
1. https://github.com/netbirdio/netbird
In Why Self-Host?> WireGuard uses UDP and a small handshake footprint, making detection and blocking via DPI harder.
Not quite true. Wireguard is already actively detected and suppressed if necessary. There's already a fork that employs basic changes to improve the protocol in this regard. AmneziaWG was shown to be more robust to detection for now.
https://docs.amnezia.org/documentation/amnezia-wg/
Too bad managing WG is such a pain and Tailscale/Netbird don't support this protocol yet. The following two issues need attention:
https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/issues/10696
https://github.com/netbirdio/netbird/issues/1096
In A technical look at Iran's internet shutdownsWhat is the difference between Pangolin and NetBird, which is also a self-hosted and fully open-source solution?
https://github.com/netbirdio/netbird
In Show HN: Pangolin – Open source alternative to Cloudflare TunnelsNetbird: Connect your devices into a WireGuard overlay network with SSO, MFA and
2 points · Open discussionTry netbird which is an open-source alternative to free yourself from worries xD
https://github.com/netbirdio/netbird
In Tailscale has raised $160MI'd love to use netbird, but it doesn't yet have capabilities to be embedded in a go binary, like tsnet for tailscale allows.
Here's a gh issue for it.
https://github.com/netbirdio/netbird/issues/1103
In An open source, self-hosted implementation of the Tailscale control serverNetbird seems (or perhaps is?) newer. It didn't have some basic features baked in when I last looked into it, e.g. you couldn't switch accounts on the client https://github.com/netbirdio/netbird/issues/3273 and if I had an account associated with a single team, then that account couldn't be invited to or be associated with additional teams.
In An open source, self-hosted implementation of the Tailscale control serverNo IPv6 though. Which is real deal breaker: https://github.com/netbirdio/netbird/issues/46
In An open source, self-hosted implementation of the Tailscale control serverThey are both based on WireGuard (kernel-space and user-space `wireguard-go`), so I guess there's no significant difference in performance for typical usage.
In terms of stability, Netbird has been pretty good for me. I've been using Netbird as the backhaul network for my laptop, phone and inter-site k3s cluster for several years without major issues.
One major downside of Netbird is that its Android client can be quite a battery drainer [1]. (It keeps your fingers warm during winter, though!)
As for Tailscale, it offers some neat features like Funnel, which is missing in Netbird, but in my case, covered by DNS and k8s Ingress.
[1]: https://github.com/netbirdio/netbird/pull/3379
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