As I’m prepping my self-hosted setup I wanted to know the community’s thoughts on Netbird, the FOSS and completely self hosted alternative to Tailscale. I often hear Tailscale used as a super easy plug and play way to share your home server contents with other people, so how does Netbird fair in comparison? Is it as easy? Is it a more buggy experience, more complicated, or does it just work? Any pros and cons, or niche edge case situations I should know about? Thanks in advance!

  • lckdscl [they/them]
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    61 year ago

    I don’t use Netbird, but at first glance they don’t seem to gave a mobile client yet? This means it’s limited to desktop usage right now. Otherwise, it’s built on Wireguard, which is the same with Tailscale. The only difference being the maturity of each project, Tailscale being the more mature one.

    Headscale is the open source Tailscale login server that you can self-host, by the way.

    • ShinOP
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      11 year ago

      They have an Android client, and the iOS client is slated to drop Q3 of this year.

      Hm, I’ll consider Headscale.