Top 10 virtual-network Open-Source Projects

ZeroTier

343 13,325 8.9 C++

A Smart Ethernet Switch for Earth

Project mention: Compiling zerotier-cli on Linux Mint 21 | /r/zerotier | 2023-10-26

Netmaker

165 8,928 9.6 Go

Netmaker makes networks with WireGuard. Netmaker automates fast, secure, and distributed virtual networks.

Project mention: Netmaker: An open source WireGuard VPN | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-23

InfluxDB

www.influxdata.com sponsored

Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
firezone

74 6,186 9.9 Elixir

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.

Project mention: WireGuard -based scalable remote access platform | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-11-16

aks-baseline

2 652 6.4 Bicep

This is the Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Baseline Cluster reference implementation as produced by the Microsoft Azure Architecture Center.
Kathara

4 391 9.1 Python

A lightweight container-based network emulation system.

Project mention: The BPF-programmable network device | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-11-24

Good old netkit.
Apparently the name has changed to Khatara:
https://www.kathara.org/

awl

5 376 7.4 Go

Securely connect your devices into a private network

Project mention: Gravitational Teleport alternatives - netbird, ZeroTier, and awl | libhunt.com/r/teleport | 2023-06-29

Anywherelan (awl for brevity) is a mesh VPN project, similar to tinc, direct wireguard or tailscale. Awl makes it easy to connect to any of your devices (at the IP protocol level) wherever they are.

wag

4 165 8.5 Go

Simple Wireguard 2FA

Project mention: Anyone centrally managing clients VPN connections/users/settings? | /r/selfhosted | 2023-06-28

WorkOS

workos.com sponsored

The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.
netmaker-openwrt

2 89 0.0 Shell

This project offers OpenWRT packages for Netmaker.
wgnetwork

1 24 4.0 Go

WGNetwork. Managing a WireGuard®-based Private Secured Network and NFTables Firewall
vnet-manager

1 8 5.6 Python

Virtual network manager - Manages containers and VMs to create a virtual network setup

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).