Thank you for the kind words and for the feedback!
We are working on the auto-upgrades feature and some more improvements of this part.
Or even better to selfhost and have DEVICENAME.whateveryou.want
3 months later, how are you feeling about Netbird?
Not a decent one, I belive 
Shortly on connectivity: ZeroTier doesn’t use WireGuard, Tailscale uses userspace WireGuard, NetBird uses kernel WireGuard when available or userpsace when not.
As far as I’m concerned neither Tailscale and ZeroTier have a selfhostable equivalent of their cloud control servers and UI.
Oh yeah, and Tom Lawrence made a video about it: https://youtu.be/eCXl09h7lqo?si=EBDk9DLXnpzGwQ18
Thank you, mate! Enjoy
That is tricky. For now I’d suggest running a single client. We will add a logout option to switch between networks in the following months.
You can configure NetBird to use a public DNS service (I should be banned for mentioning this here, probably ) or a custom one that you use. See the docs: https://docs.netbird.io/how-to/manage-dns-in-your-network
We haven’t noticed this. I hope that it wasn’t our issue, but we will doublecheck anyway. Thank you!
On the way. See the public roadmap
https://github.com/netbirdio/netbird/projects/2
No dependency anymore. You can use your own IdP and it can be a self-hosted one.
The quickstart guide includes Zitadel’s open-source version which is 100% selfhostable.
https://docs.netbird.io/selfhosted/identity-providers
What’s the issue with Netmaker?
Thank you for the feedback!
And of course another great ZT-relevant feature would be a posture check whether the user is authenticated against the auth system.
Could you please elaborate on this one? I guess, that you don’t mean SSO. What is it?
Finally, as the ACLs and partial mesh start getting complicated, some sort of topology visualisation would be super helpful.
Would something like a group view in addition ot the peers view suffice? How do you see this visualisation?
Hm, thats rather an exceptional case. Would you mind elaborate on this via DM our creating a github issue?GitHub · Where software is built
NetBird uses NAT traversal to automatically punch holes through the firewall t oestablish direct connections.
They recommend using VMs with 2GB RAM as per the documentation.
But the problem is Zitadel’s database cockroach that consumes lots of resources.
Basically yes, DO VM would be publicly available, and netbird would handle the reverse proxy side of things back to say my home computer through the vpn connection, and any external authentications/policies I might have setup.
I’m still new to self hosting. Do you do this with DNS? Or would you mind pointing me in the right direction to achieve that?
If I’m outside my network I would need a VPN or an app like Netbird, correct?
I would say headscale is similar, but without a fancy UI (although there are repos for it). I’d be interested in the key differences between these two projects.
The zerotier’s network controller is integrated into all zerotier binary, you just need to enable it. Then it responds to rest API, some webui exist.