Mesh VPN

So you love what Tailscale does — the zero-config mesh VPN that connects everything. But that control plane? But closed source. And your network routing, ACLs, and device inventory all live on someone else’s servers. And for a homelab or client infrastructure you own, that’s a hard no. Here’s the short answer: Netbird fixes that. And it’s an open-source WireGuard® mesh VPN where the full stack — client, management API, dashboard, relay servers — is yours to run. Still, the project sits at 25.9K★ on GitHub with 2,946 commits, and it shipped two new versions over 72 hours (v0.72.3 and v0.72.4). So this is the most complete self-hosted alternative to Tailscale today. ...

You’ve got a laptop, a desktop, a NAS in the closet, and a Raspberry Pi running Home Assistant. How do they all talk to each other securely — without opening ports, fighting with firewall rules, or renting a cloud server just to route traffic? Here’s the short answer: Tailscale makes this stupidly simple. It’s a zero-config mesh VPN built on WireGuard®, free for personal use (100 devices, 6 users), and it genuinely delivers on the “it just works” promise. ...