WireGuardยฎ-based overlay network and Zero Trust Network Access in one platform for reliable and secure connectivity

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[โ€“] 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (6 children)

AlternativeTo lists HeadScale as a direct opensource, self-hosted implementation of Tailscale. Why go for Netbird which seems to be a closedsource implementation?

Edit: whoops, netbird is also opensource! Never used these. I'll have a look. Thanks for sharing. Maybe self-hosting with these is safer than making it available to the open internet - and easier!

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  • [โ€“] 8 points 8 months ago* (3 children)

    Where the hell did you get that idea? Netbird is fully open source, including the server power you need for brokering. Afaik that part isn't open for Tailscale. You can use none of their infrastructure and not even have an account with them and fully use netbird. You can't do that with Tailscale. See reply from Dojan who did just that, here in this thread.

    To be clear, Tailscale is relatively open and generally considered a "good" company, but you still need to use their infrastructure in order to use it. Netbird is fully open.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 8 months ago (2 children)

    I heard there is an sso tax, is this true with the locally hosted server?

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

    So that you can get a version that you don't have to host yourself? Needs differ, and businesses exist, you know.

    Also:

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 8 months ago

    The official service, hosted by them, exists. You can pay for it just like for Tailscale. If you don't wanna host, use that (like a business might). But you can still see and audit the whole source, including what they are hosting for you, because even that is open source.

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