NetBird

“Tailscale, ZeroTier, Netbird, and similar may be able to do much of the work for you”

“been using it for about 6 months now with no complaints. Fully OSS, mobile clients, etc.”

“WireGuard overlay networks (e.g. Netbird, Tailscale) basically solve that problem at home-user scale”

“Easier to just switch to Nebula or Netbird and self-host the full stack.”

“Switched from Pangolin to Netbird recently and enjoy Netbird more!”

“the management makes access control and grouping dead simple in netbird”

“Open source, built in Europe, used by thousands of teams worldwide.”

“For me the biggest thing tailscale/netbird solves is still the automatic handling of the peers, acls”

“Alternatives are Logmein Hamachi(might be dating myself here, haven't used them in 10+ years), Zerotier, Netbird. Headscale too.”

“all my connected devices are reachable to each other without manual firewall hackery”

“Another tool to keep an eye on is Netbird which is like a tailscale like mesh”

“Tailscale is awesome, and Netbird is awesome, and Wireguard is awesome.”

“We build open source secure remote access for teams and infrastructure.”

“Met the founders in Berlin and was quite convinced of technical depth and vision.”

“We've deployed self-hosted NetBird on AWS ECS and we're quite happy with the setup and the outcome.”

“their service would fail when I tried to configure IPv6 nameservers for it”

“Users on slow connections complained that they could not stay connected with services reliably.”

“You can also use profiles and set management URL in the settings through the UI.”

“The DNS resolution didn't work, and support was unable to figure out the reason.”

“My personal favourite one is Netbird but.. it lacks one feature: switching between multiple setups (networks).”

“I like NetBird/Tailscale/Wireguard, but they are better VPNs, not identity-first, zero trust overlays”

“now any OIDC-compatible identity provider (Auth0, Okta, Azure/Microsoft Entra, Google, Keycloak, etc.) is supported on all the tunnelers”

“netbird has open sourced their _coordinator server_. This allows for self hosting to be end to end.”

“Most of their documentation is very unclear about what is a cloud offering feature and what is possible using self-hosting.”

“DNS resolution failures occurred inconsistently—sometimes due to browser caching when accessing web resources, but often for no apparent reason.”

“We have enterprises running NetBird with thousands of users with near zero issues.”

“I like Netbird, its a better VPN, but its not zero trust networking.”

“Unfortunately Netbird is VC backed. So the service will enshittify very soon.”

“couldn't get it working reliably for 10-15% of users. The client failed intermittently with no clear pattern to troubleshoot.”

“the services are almost stateless and not resource intensive even on my little VPS”

“mostly because of issues on laptops where resolving or networking would break”

“Thanks to netbird's P2P nature, traffic stays entirely local as long as I'm on my home WiFi.”

“NetBird is Germany-based and explicitly positions itself as a European alternative.”

“I'm rooting for the devs, having an alternative for tailscale+headscale would be nice”

“Missing some technical bits to be a true contender for me but I bet they are getting there.”

“If the VPN connection would stay connected despite having it set up that way in the web UI.. It would be a good product.”

“Besides the solid product, Misha & Maycon are just great and friendly people to work with.”

“a fully open source alternative would be netbird, it's based on wireguard as well, has 0 closed components”

“Netbird (self-hosted) offers a lot lot more with the self-hosted solution.”

“its super convenient to take a laptop with me and just use it as a thin client”