Netbird: The Easy to Use Open-Source Wireguard Based Overlay VPN That You Can Host Yourself

My previous overlay network video

Netbird Install Video

Differences between Cloud & Self hosted versions.

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Chapters
00:00 Netbird Open Source VPN
02:44 Netbird Pricing
03:38 Self Hosting Netbird
04:20 How Netbird Works
05:50 Netbird Use Cases
08:14 Netbird User Interface
10:59 Netbird Access control rules
12:59 Network Routing and Exit Nodes
13:32 Custom DNS Server Settings
13:55 Admin Logging

[netbirdio]

Thank you for your support and recognition, Tom. Vídeos like this one keep us up and motivated. The whole NetBird team appreciates your work.

[Jordan-hzwr]

I’ve been a Nebula user for years. One feature of Nevulas that I hope comes to Netbird is the ability for two nodes to choose to communicate locally with each other when they’re both on the same LAN.

[hookuspookus]

Looks promising. Can't wait for BSD support to be implemented, so I can run it on OPNsense. Thanks for the video!

[PowerUsr]

Compared to Tailscale this is so much better when it comes to the security rules. Tailscales failure, imo, is forcing a user to write JSON rules to limit access whereas Netbird makes it dead simple and well thought out.

[urzaaaaa]

Thanks! I was just deciding between headscale and netbird and netbird looks really nice so I will probably go with that.

[r_x]

Wait, sooo if I install this as well, do I get a sweet T-shirt?!

This is great Tom. I've heard them mentioned a few times. I love Tailscale, but the requirement of something like Gmail (I don't really want to fight with the OIDC stuff right now) has held me rolling it all over the place at home.

The ACL looks MUCH simpler to quickly glance at and manage.

[fjlaboratories]

Does Netbird support tunneling of general purpose multicast traffic? That was one of my main limitations with Tailscale and benefit of Zerotier.

[_nske]

I'm keeping an eye on the project, I like its design very much. The only thing stopping me from considering it is that the scope of Access Control is only at the peer-level, instead of allowing including arbitrary CIDR definitions in Access Control Policies (so that not every service host itself has to be joined to the overlay network as a peer in order to have control over the peers access to it, which is unfeasible or undesirable in many cases)

[fonte]

FINALLY! Looking forward to this one.

[Glatze]

Netbird is awesome! Thanks for sharing.

[proteuss]

I saw that when my main WAN goes down the connection is not restored on the failover, I have to manually restart all agents to get it working again.

[jckf]

I've considered self-hosted NetBird as a replacement for Tailscale just to get rid of a third party and subscription, but haven't sat down and labed it yet. Is this something you'd consider for your own use-cases, Tom?

[Zwiesel]

Thank you for that great video. I am very thankful for these wonderful open source projects 🥰

[ctatrn]

Would be good if I could setup certs on this through letsencrypt to all the peers hostnames. So many things don't like it when there's no registered cert on the address.

[mjmeans]

Is there a completely self-hosted, on-premises and isolated so that it creates a TRUE virtual private network without requiring any dependency (not neve the creation of an account) on any third-party server? i.e. A zero-trust solution.

[jrdemasi]

So, Tom -- do we feel this is suitable for personal use at this point?

[azteck]

Would be great if you could setup multiple network subnets like you can in Zerotier.

[StaffyDoo]

No Synology client, though. I wonder how difficult would it be to deploy it in an OCI container and allow it to access subnet resources? 🧐

[bleeb]

Self hosted or hosted replacement for Zscaler ZPA? Yes, please. ZPA used to be affordable….The question is, can I use this to replace my Silverpeak SDWAN setup with 50+ offices and multiple data centers?

[WmJamesWofford]

My man sold out for a tee shirt…. lol. Jk xoxoxo always honest and from the heart that’s what we loves about ya.