A curated list of community projects and content for NetBird — the open-source, WireGuard-based zero-configuration mesh VPN.
This repository is the source of truth for the community directory on netbird.io. Each entry lives in its own file under data/; the site reads from this repository, so adding an entry here adds it to the website. To submit one, see CONTRIBUTING.md.
34 projects · 18 pieces of content
Legend: 🟢 Official built and maintained by the NetBird team · ⭐ Endorsed a community project the NetBird team vouches for.
Run or deploy NetBird somewhere — images, clients, and devices.
- Home Assistant Add-on
🟢 Official— The official NetBird add-on for Home Assistant, connecting your smart home to your private network in a few clicks with no port forwarding. by NetBird - NetBird Helm Chart
🟢 Official— Official Helm chart for deploying NetBird's self-hosted control plane (management, signal, relay, and dashboard) into a Kubernetes cluster, with ingress, persistence, and monitoring support. by NetBird - NetBird for NixOS
⭐ Endorsed— NetBird client package and services.netbird module in nixpkgs for declaratively installing and configuring the NetBird client on NixOS. by nixpkgs maintainers - NetBird Proxmox LXC
⭐ Endorsed— Community helper script that creates a Proxmox VE LXC container running the NetBird client, set up as a routing peer to bridge your Proxmox network into your NetBird network. by Community Scripts - NetBird Snap
⭐ Endorsed— Snap package of the NetBird client for Linux, letting you install and run NetBird on Ubuntu and other snapd-compatible distributions via the Snap Store. by Ubuntu Robotics - docker-netbird — A rootless, distroless Docker image that packages the NetBird management server, dashboard, and signal server into one lightweight container. by 11notes
- JetBird — An unofficial, privacy-focused native Android client for NetBird, adding split tunneling, per-app exclusion, and Rosenpass support. Available on F-Droid. by bg443
- mavlink-anywhere — A companion-computer routing dashboard for drone MAVLink telemetry that uses NetBird for secure remote access to ground stations and operators. by alireza787b
- nanoNetBird — Brings the NetBird client to nanoKVM out-of-band management devices, with a single-command install that auto-updates. by bc547
- NetBird Dockhand Templates — Dockhand stack templates for one-click deployment of a self-hosted NetBird control plane: combined server (management, signal, relay, STUN, embedded Dex IdP), dashboard, Postgres, NetBird reverse proxy, CrowdSec, and Caddy with TLS passthrough. Includes a client stack template. by shaban00
- NetBird on Arch (AUR) — AUR package that builds and installs the NetBird client from source on Arch Linux, with a prebuilt netbird-bin variant also available. by tarball
Plug NetBird into another tool or platform.
- NetBird for pfSense
🟢 Official— The official pfSense package that adds NetBird to your firewall, managed from the pfSense web UI under the VPN menu. by NetBird - NetBird for Unraid
🟢 Official— The official NetBird plugin for Unraid, making your Unraid server a native peer on your NetBird network with no extra container or hop. by NetBird - NetworkManager Plugin
🟢 Official— The official NetworkManager VPN plugin that lets you manage NetBird connections from your Linux desktop's standard VPN controls. by NetBird - caddy-netbird
⭐ Endorsed— A Caddy plugin that embeds a NetBird client, letting the reverse proxy route HTTP and raw TCP/UDP traffic to upstreams through a NetBird network instead of the public internet. by lixmal - NetBird API Exporter
⭐ Endorsed— Prometheus exporter that collects metrics from the NetBird API (peers, groups, users, networks, and DNS) and exposes them for monitoring, with a prebuilt Grafana dashboard. by Matan Baruch - NetBird for OpenWrt
⭐ Endorsed— The official OpenWrt package that runs NetBird on your router for secure mesh networking, with setup-key login and init scripts. by NetBird - netbird-connect
⭐ Endorsed— A GitHub Action that joins your CI/CD runners to a NetBird network so workflows can reach private resources securely. by Alemiz112 - luci-app-netbird — A LuCI web UI for managing the NetBird client on OpenWrt / ImmortalWrt routers, with one-click firewall zone and LAN-to-mesh forwarding setup. by looong-cat
- NetBird Connect Runner — A GitHub Action that joins a workflow runner to your NetBird network as an ephemeral peer, so CI/CD jobs can reach private resources like internal services, databases, and jump hosts over WireGuard. by shaban00
- NetBird Expose Runner — A GitHub Action that builds a project's Docker service on the workflow runner and exposes it through the NetBird reverse proxy with automatic TLS and optional auth, holds it live for a configurable duration, then tears down the ephemeral peer. by shaban00
- NetBird for Talos Linux — Talos Linux system extension that runs the NetBird client on Talos nodes, giving machines on your NetBird network secure access to your Talos Kubernetes nodes. by Sidero Labs
- NetBird VPN for Decky Loader — A Decky Loader plugin to manage NetBird VPN directly from the Steam Deck Quick Access Menu. Authenticate via SSO/QR, manage peers, network resources, port exposure, forwarding rules, and profiles. All from the gaming-mode UI. by MentallyOverwhelmed
- netbird-traefik — Run NetBird behind a Traefik reverse proxy using Traefik labels, without changing your existing stack. by yblis
- NetDesk — A Chrome extension that adds one-click RustDesk remote access (desktop, terminal, file transfer) right inside the NetBird dashboard. by yblis
View or drive NetBird — CLIs, dashboards, and exporters.
- netbird-exporter — A Prometheus exporter that surfaces NetBird peer connection status, latency, and traffic metrics for your dashboards. by gocloudio
Automate or manage NetBird via code — libraries and infrastructure as code.
- Crossplane Provider
🟢 Official— The official Crossplane provider for managing NetBird resources from Kubernetes-native infrastructure pipelines. by NetBird - Kubernetes Operator
🟢 Official— The official operator that provisions NetBird access for Kubernetes workloads declaratively, managing peers, routes, and groups as custom resources. by NetBird - Terraform Provider
🟢 Official— The official Terraform provider for managing your NetBird account and its resources as infrastructure as code. by NetBird - Ansible Collection
⭐ Endorsed— The official Ansible collection for managing self-hosted NetBird infrastructure (users, peers, policies, routes, and DNS) via the REST API. by NetBird - ansible-netbird — An Ansible collection for deploying and managing NetBird servers and peers, with dynamic inventory for peer data. by Dominion Solutions
- netbird-delayed-auto-update-windows — A PowerShell script and scheduled task that delays NetBird Windows client updates by a set number of days to avoid rolling out bad releases. by NetHorror
- netbird-mullvad-bypass — An nftables-based bypass that lets NetBird and Mullvad VPN coexist on Linux, with packages for Arch, Fedora/RHEL, and Debian/Ubuntu. by d10n
- netbird-python-client — An unofficial Python client library for the NetBird API, covering 30+ resources for managing your network as code. by drtinkerer
Community videos, articles, and posts about NetBird. ⭐ marks featured items.
- NetBird Setup Guide (New & Simplified) ⭐ — by Christian Lempa
- NAS als Mini-Server: n8n & KI-Agenten zu Hause laufen lassen (Terramaster F4-425 Pro) — by Philip Thomas
- NetBird Reverse Proxy: Better than Cloudflare Tunnels? — by ServersatHome
- NetBird VPN & Pi-Hole DNS Setup — by Jason's Lab
- Netbird VPN access for Kubernetes — by Engineering with Morris
- NetBird vs Tailscale: The One I’d Trust With My #homelab — by 45HomeLab
- NetBird: The Easy-to-Use Open-Source WireGuard Overlay VPN You Can Self-Host — by Lawrence Systems
- REAL Self-Hosted Remote Access for YOUR Home Server — by TechHut
- Schluss mit Port-Forwarding! NetBird macht Selfhosting sicherer — by Daniel Klozbücher / IT-ION GmbH
- The EASIEST Unattended Remote Desktop for GNOME/Wayland. — by Cameron Knauff
- This Underrated Tool Replaced 3 Homelab Services (and it's open source!) — by DevOps Toolbox
- Deploying the NetBird Reverse Proxy on Kubernetes ⭐ — by David Fischer
- I migrated my entire home lab network stack to NetBird because it does the one thing Tailscale can't match ⭐ — by XDA Developers
- 5 Lightweight Tailscale Alternatives Worth Running on Your Own Hardware — by techdigestor
- Best.VPN.Ever. — by ServersatHome
- I was exposing my home server every time I opened a router port — NetBird fixed it — by MakeUseOf
- NetBird VPN homelab: ho sostituito Tailscale in 12 minuti e 3 subnet — by Antonio Distefano
- NetBird vs Tailscale: Why the Layer 4 Reverse Proxy is Forcing Home Labs to Migrate — by Blaze Trends
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