ZeroTier
A Smart Ethernet Switch for Earth (by zerotier)
headscale
An open source, self-hosted implementation of the Tailscale control server (by juanfont)
| ZeroTier | headscale | |
|---|---|---|
| 344 | 222 | |
| 13,415 | 19,696 | |
| 1.6% | - | |
| 8.7 | 9.2 | |
| 16 days ago | 2 days ago | |
| C++ | Go | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
ZeroTier
Posts with mentions or reviews of ZeroTier.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-30.
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List of ngrok/Cloudflare Tunnel alternatives and other tunneling software and services. Focus on self-hosting.
ZeroTier - Layer 2 overlay network. They take decentralization seriously, and like to say "decentralize until it hurts, then centralize until it works." Written in C++.
- Compiling zerotier-cli on Linux Mint 21
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Is there a way to bind ZeroTier with the Android Blue Iris app?
EDIT - I'm tired and cross-eyed after a bunch of internet searching and rabbit holes... A supposed ZeroTier dev said on April 25, 2023 that this would be addressed in a future release of the app in this thread: https://github.com/zerotier/ZeroTierOne/issues/1952. On August 10th, another engineer said that they are waiting for a car to be delivered.
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ZeroTier-GTK development help
Solution 2: Wait for support from Zerotier-One with DBUS
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Gravitational Teleport alternatives - netbird, ZeroTier, and awl
4 projects | 29 Jun 2023
A Smart Ethernet Switch for Earth
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Self-Hosted Mesh Network / VPN For User-Friendly LAN Gaming Network?
https://github.com/zerotier/ZeroTierOne (11.5k stars)
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Setup a Local Wifi Lan
If you just want to connect between your devices, you don't need any hardware. Just install zerotier on them.
- VPN options for businesses (AzureAD, IdP, etc)
- [Self Hosted] Je suis sans voix pour des services comme TailScale, quel est l'inconvénient?
- Zerotier stops working after some time
headscale
Posts with mentions or reviews of headscale.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-30.
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List of ngrok/Cloudflare Tunnel alternatives and other tunneling software and services. Focus on self-hosting.
headscale - Open source implementation of Tailscale control server. Can be used with Tailscale's official open source client. Written in Go.
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Building a Managed Service Provider Business With Open Source
Headscale
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Russia has started indiscriminately blocking all OpenVPN/WireGuard connections
You can always use headscale. https://github.com/juanfont/headscale
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Securely Accessing Private AWS Resources from GitHub Actions with TailScale
One more thing, you can host Tailscale Control Server yourself if you want, which is a plus.
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A word of caution about Tailscale
https://github.com/juanfont/headscale not to mention but Tailscale has a very good culture, I’m sure they would give notice if they pull the rug. There are also many alternatives such as Zerotier and more are showing up every day and open source options.
- Is HTTPS necessary?
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Connecting several hundreds IoT (raspberry pi's) devices with a VPN
How about self-hosted Tailscale, known as Headscale
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Tailscale Kubernetes Operator
Would be nice if https://github.com/juanfont/headscale can be managed by the Tailscale operator.
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Mullvad on Tailscale: Privately browse the web
You can run your own "head scale" control server and use their clients with it: https://github.com/juanfont/headscale
Requires a lot more setup, but it is an option. I've been self-hosting headscale for some time and it is quite stable.
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Netbirdio/netbird: Connect devices into a single private WireGuard mesh network
There's an alternative to tailscale service called headscale https://github.com/juanfont/headscale (CLI only server compatible with official tailscale clients)
What are some alternatives?
When comparing ZeroTier and headscale you can also consider the following projects:
Nebula - A scalable overlay networking tool with a focus on performance, simplicity and security
tailscale - The easiest, most secure way to use WireGuard and 2FA.
Netmaker - Netmaker makes networks with WireGuard. Netmaker automates fast, secure, and distributed virtual networks.
netbird - Connect your devices into a single secure private WireGuard®-based mesh network with SSO/MFA and simple access controls.
zero-ui - ZeroUI - ZeroTier Controller Web UI - is a web user interface for a self-hosted ZeroTier network controller.
cloudflared - Cloudflare Tunnel client (formerly Argo Tunnel)
Bypass_CGNAT - Wireguard setup to bypass CGNAT with a VPS
firezone - Open-source VPN server and egress firewall for Linux built on WireGuard. Firezone is easy to set up (all dependencies are bundled thanks to Chef Omnibus), secure, performant, and self hostable.