headscale-ui VS wg-easy

However, I'm encountering significant challenges when it comes to setting up a seemingly simple static website for the UI.

I've been running wireguard on my own for a few years. I like it, but wish there was a better GUI.

I tried installing headscale. I didn't feel like I got the immediate rush of "cool, I have the baseline thing working" without reading the docs. And, I needed to use this for a GUI: https://github.com/gurucomputing/headscale-ui. I love the command line and am happy to use that, but I'm unsure if there is a benefit to headscale over wireguard if I'm doing that.

I just read this article on tailscale vs. openziti and it mentioned netmaker (a YC company). I tried installing it, but out of the box, "DNS" did not seem to work correctly.

Is anyone here a power user that also benefits from a full fledged GUI? Is tailscale the only option there? I prefer to self-host whenever I can, despite loving tailscale and the people behind it.

There's also gurucomputing/headscale-ui which I've used personally. It's been adequate, though the lack of native arm64 builds until recently has put me off a bit.

How does this compare to headscale-ui?

Headscale's ui is fine (well ish, I'd like headscale to write an API for ACLs). I might be biased though because I wrote it.

Have you tried https://github.com/gurucomputing/headscale-ui ?

My Dev container is here: https://github.com/gurucomputing/headscale-ui/blob/master/documentation/development.md

I threw my hat into the headscale crowd instead (to the point of writing a UI for it) but I'll have to give netmaker another spin soon.

Check out wg-easy on GitHub. There is also a wg with pinole on their page. Works so easily together. https://github.com/wg-easy/wg-easy

sounds like you just want wg-easy.

This wg-easy?

Definitely not an OSI approved license, but does look like they made an attempt in the spirit of GPL, no?

https://github.com/wg-easy/wg-easy/blob/master/LICENSE.md

> You may:

Use this software for yourself;

Use this software for a company;

Modify this software, as long as you:

Publish the changes on GitHub as an open-source & linked fork;

Don't remove any links to the original project or donation pages;

You may not:

Use this software in a commercial product without a license from the original author;

wg-easy running in Docker. Then access it using WireGuard on my mobile devices.

Just plain wg-easy (wireguard with frontend). No 3rd parties involved, just me & my endpoint

I suggest running a VPN server like wireguard (very easy to install on phone and set up using https://github.com/wg-easy/wg-easy) and have the port open only to that. The VPN will do the rest in terms of NATing ports and whatnot.

https://github.com/wg-easy/wg-easy (7.6k stars)

I use wg-easy for now https://github.com/wg-easy/wg-easy