subspace vs wireguard-go-docker

subspace

A simple WireGuard VPN server GUI (by subspacecloud)

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wireguard-go-docker

Wireguard docker image (by masipcat)

Wireguard VPN Docker K8s

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subspace		wireguard-go-docker
	Project
8	Mentions	2
2,511	Stars	176
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	4.0
over 1 year ago	Latest Commit	about 1 month ago
HTML	Language	Dockerfile
MIT License	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

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subspace

Posts with mentions or reviews of subspace. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-12.

[Help] Wireguard Management UI for existing setup
1 project | /r/selfhosted | 16 Jan 2023
Which vpn server setup do you use? Container / no Container, GUI / CLI?
6 projects | /r/selfhosted | 12 Sep 2022

When I look into vpn servers, I find easy installers, which directly work on linux (e.g. angristan/wireguard-install) or also vpns, which operate from docker (like kylemanna/docker-openvpn). Then there are options, where multiple things are included, like firezone or this. I am not so sure how well they integrate with my reverse proxy and some seem to be much more complicated than others.
Free (as in both) front-end web GUI for an OpenVPN (and/or maybe Wireguard) server, that's suitable for a small business?
6 projects | /r/selfhosted | 24 Apr 2022

https://github.com/subspacecloud/subspace (2.2k GitHub stars, last updated February 9th)
Self Hosted GUI to monitor and administer wireguard peers
8 projects | /r/WireGuard | 9 Nov 2021

Subspace
Wg-access-server: An all-in-one WireGuard VPN solution with a web UI
7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Oct 2021

That is nice to see, I was looking at subspace last week and the last commit to https://github.com/subspacecloud/subspace had led me to believe it had withered and died, I was guessing due to the primary backing company having died?
So it is quite nice to see that it is living on as a fork.
Netmaker 0.7 - Very Fast Linux Server Networking over WireGuard and Other Things
4 projects | /r/selfhosted | 11 Aug 2021
Pritunl alternative
2 projects | /r/selfhosted | 24 Feb 2021

Another UI-enabled alternative for WireGuard is Subspace. And another simple-as-hell option for managing VPN profiles (with OpenVPN and WG compatibility, but no web interface) could be running PiVPN on any Ubuntu/Debian host.
WG Gui question
1 project | /r/WireGuard | 13 Jan 2021

Have you checked https://github.com/subspacecloud/subspace ?

wireguard-go-docker

Posts with mentions or reviews of wireguard-go-docker. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-02-09.

Our User Mode WireGuard Year
4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Feb 2022

I thought wireguard-go requires the kernel tun device. See for example this Docker image for wireguard-go which maps the tun device and requires elevated permissions - https://github.com/masipcat/wireguard-go-docker
Unable to run WG on multiple OS's: wireguard RTNETLINK answers: Operation not permitted
1 project | /r/WireGuard | 19 Sep 2021

I was just curious if it's just me. It seems theres a few posts on various places on the internet on this and the questions are not answered on any of them (EG: https://github.com/masipcat/wireguard-go-docker/issues/19)

What are some alternatives?

When comparing subspace and wireguard-go-docker you can also consider the following projects:

Pritunl-Fake-API - This neat script provides a little fake API to unlock all premium/enterprise/enterprise+ (here called ultimate) features of your own Pritunl VPN server. A mirror of https://gitlab.simonmicro.de/simonmicro/pritunl-fake-api

wg-gen-web - Simple Web based configuration generator for WireGuard

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

nordvpn - NordVpn Docker Client

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

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.

wg-access-server - An all-in-one WireGuard VPN solution with a web ui for connecting devices

helmfiles - Comprehensive Distribution of Helmfiles for Kubernetes

netmaker-gui - An alternate UI for Netmaker (https://github.com/gravitl/netmaker)

Pulumi - Pulumi - Infrastructure as Code in any programming language. Build infrastructure intuitively on any cloud using familiar languages 🚀

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

slirp4netns - User-mode networking for unprivileged network namespaces