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I recommend it the NetBird team is transparent and easy to reach. I switched from Tailscale a while ago (2y), went fully self-hosted, and upgrades across versio

by regisso 8mo ago

I recommend it the NetBird team is transparent and easy to reach. I switched from Tailscale a while ago (2y), went fully self-hosted, and upgrades across versions have been smooth, which tells me they care about the self-hosted, not just their cloud offering.

smashed 8mo ago
We tried netbird but could not get the client to register to a self hosted server. It ignored the setting or failed. Good chance it was user error on our part. Most of their documentation is very unclear about what is a cloud offering feature and what is possible using self-hosting. There are features not available on the community edition and you have to be very careful reading their doc. Just putting it out there so people do not think it's an easy solution. It will require appropriate planning. I do think its a more promising solution than headscale if you want to self host as it is a complete package, unlike tailscale where you need to modify registry keys to change the cloud URL and headscale is a simplified, non-multi-tenant signaler.
- SebastianKra 8mo ago
  We also had a bunch of problems. The DNS resolution didn't work, and support was unable to figure out the reason. A coworker reported domain access breaking when he went to office 1, but fixed itself when he went to office 2. For a while, when you logged in with the wrong account, it was near impossible to replace it. This on is fixed now, but the entire thing still feels very much like paying for beta software.
  - teruakohatu 8mo ago
    I have endless DNS problems with Tailscale. So I am guessing it’s a hard problem.
    - jasona123 8mo ago
      It's like the haiku says: It’s not DNS There’s no way it’s DNS It was DNS
- braginini 8mo ago
  There is a dedicated page explaining the difference between selfhosted and cloud versions: https://docs.netbird.io/selfhosted/self-hosted-vs-cloud-netbird https://docs.netbird.io/selfhosted/self-hosted-vs-cloud-netb... You can also use profiles and set management URL in the settings through the UI. You can even switch between self hosted and cloud versions: https://docs.netbird.io/client/profiles https://docs.netbird.io/client/profiles

by regisso 8mo ago

smashed 8mo ago

We tried netbird but could not get the client to register to a self hosted server. It ignored the setting or failed. Good chance it was user error on our part. Most of their documentation is very unclear about what is a cloud offering feature and what is possible using self-hosting. There are features not available on the community edition and you have to be very careful reading their doc. Just putting it out there so people do not think it's an easy solution. It will require appropriate planning. I do think its a more promising solution than headscale if you want to self host as it is a complete package, unlike tailscale where you need to modify registry keys to change the cloud URL and headscale is a simplified, non-multi-tenant signaler.

SebastianKra 8mo ago
We also had a bunch of problems. The DNS resolution didn't work, and support was unable to figure out the reason. A coworker reported domain access breaking when he went to office 1, but fixed itself when he went to office 2. For a while, when you logged in with the wrong account, it was near impossible to replace it. This on is fixed now, but the entire thing still feels very much like paying for beta software.
- teruakohatu 8mo ago
  I have endless DNS problems with Tailscale. So I am guessing it’s a hard problem.
  - jasona123 8mo ago
    It's like the haiku says: It’s not DNS There’s no way it’s DNS It was DNS
braginini 8mo ago
There is a dedicated page explaining the difference between selfhosted and cloud versions: https://docs.netbird.io/selfhosted/self-hosted-vs-cloud-netbird https://docs.netbird.io/selfhosted/self-hosted-vs-cloud-netb... You can also use profiles and set management URL in the settings through the UI. You can even switch between self hosted and cloud versions: https://docs.netbird.io/client/profiles https://docs.netbird.io/client/profiles