netbirdio/netbird
Connect your devices, users, and agents into a secure WireGuard®-based overlay network with SSO, MFA and granular access controls.
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Where it stands
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Ranks #236 of 2,841 repositories GStars tracks this week (top 8%).
5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest today, with 166 contributors on GitHub.
Peaked at #9 in the weekly ranking the week of Jan 4, its best in the past year.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Creates a secure WireGuard-based overlay network with centralized access control, SSO, MFA, and granular policies for device connectivity.
- Eliminates complex VPN setup by automating peer-to-peer connections, NAT traversal, and access management in a single platform.
- Use for enabling secure remote access to organizational resources with multi-factor authentication and identity provider integration.
- Use for building private mesh networks across heterogeneous infrastructure including Linux, Windows, macOS, Android, iOS, and OpenWRT devices.
- Use for self-hosting a zero-trust network solution with automated provisioning, private DNS, and activity logging for compliance.
Should you depend on it?
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From the README
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NetBird combines a configuration-free peer-to-peer private network and a centralized access control system in a single platform, making it easy to create secure private networks for your organization or home.
Connect. NetBird creates a WireGuard-based overlay network that automatically connects your machines over an encrypted tunnel, leaving behind the hassle of opening ports, complex firewall rules, VPN gateways, and so forth.
Secure. NetBird enables secure remote access by applying granular access policies while allowing you to manage them intuitively from a single place. Works universally on any infrastructure.
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
+2,867 stars over 90 days across 33 snapshot days; best day +76 on Sep 17.
Forks
1.7K+264
Open issues
1.0K-437
Compared with peers in Networking
Fastest-growing repositories GStars tracks in this cohort for the week of Oct 4, by 7-day star growth
| Repository | Stars | +7d | Health | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| caddyserver/caddy | 77.9K | +1.3K | 75 | 10 days ago |
| superdesigndev/treg | 5.3K | +896 | 45 | — |
| MHSanaei/3x-ui | 47.8K | +414 | 54 | 109 days ago |
| Pumpkin-MC/Pumpkin | 12.3K | +385 | 75 | 10 days ago |
| AminMGMT/BackPack | 438 | +60 | 39 | 3 days ago |
| netbirdio/netbird | 29.8K | +0 | 75 | today |
| Category median | 12.3K | +414 | 54 | — |
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