Tailscale Alternative

You want a mesh VPN without a central authority. Tailscale works great until it doesn’t — you’re still trusting their coordination servers. And ZeroTier gives you control, but the setup isn’t trivial. EasyTier sits in the middle: full decentralization with a one-liner install. So we spent an afternoon testing EasyTier v2.6 on three Linux nodes across different network environments. Here’s our take. What EasyTier Is EasyTier is a Rust-based mesh VPN that runs on Linux, macOS, Windows, FreeBSD, Android, x86, ARM, and MIPS. It wraps WireGuard encryption (or AES-GCM) into a peer-to-peer mesh where every node is equal. No master server, no cloud dependency, no accounts. ...

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. ...