I immediately looked at this and thought it was a tailscale clone.

I looked further into it and it’s essentially the same.

Implementation over ease of use of wireguard setup. Peer to peer modeling. Mesh networking. "Zero trust".

However, what I find interesting is netbird has open sourced their _coordinator server_. This allows for self hosting to be end to end.

yes with tailscale there exists "headscale", but it’s clearly a side project that few people within the tailscale company maintain on spare time.

One of the fears i have with headscale is a sudden change in leadership at tailscale, then the support from tailscale dies. Significant divergence occurs between headscale coordinator server and clients. Enshittification occurs and now forcing those smaller use cases onto their SaaS.

I love tailscale/headscale but will definitely give this a try.