headscale VS firezone

Compare headscale vs firezone and see what are their differences.

headscale

An open source, self-hosted implementation of the Tailscale control server (by juanfont)

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. (by firezone)
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headscale firezone
221 74
19,446 6,207
- 3.2%
9.2 9.9
7 days ago 1 day ago
Go Elixir
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License Apache License 2.0
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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 2024-04-04.

firezone

Posts with mentions or reviews of firezone. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-28.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing headscale and firezone you can also consider the following projects:

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.

wg-easy - The easiest way to run WireGuard VPN + Web-based Admin UI. [Moved to: https://github.com/wg-easy/wg-easy]

zero-ui - ZeroUI - ZeroTier Controller Web UI - is a web user interface for a self-hosted ZeroTier network controller.

wireguard-ui - Wireguard web interface

netbird - Connect your devices into a single secure private WireGuard®-based mesh network with SSO/MFA and simple access controls.

wg-easy - The easiest way to run WireGuard VPN + Web-based Admin UI.

ZeroTier - A Smart Ethernet Switch for Earth

wirehole - WireHole is a combination of WireGuard, Pi-hole, and Unbound in a docker-compose project with the intent of enabling users to quickly and easily create a personally managed full or split-tunnel WireGuard VPN with ad blocking capabilities thanks to Pi-hole, and DNS caching, additional privacy options, and upstream providers via Unbound.

Nebula - A scalable overlay networking tool with a focus on performance, simplicity and security

Pritunl - Enterprise VPN server