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NetBird is coming for you
I have been planning to check out Netbird for couple of days. Is it a good alternative for headscale and pangolin?
It depends if you're using Pangolin for private access or public exposure.
NetBird is a clean replacement for headscale/tailscale, but if your using pangolin specifically for its public tunnel feature then you'd need to keep pangolin.
Mainly use pangolin for public access, I'm looking for something/somehow add authentication for pangolin while trying to access endpoint in apps where it's not exactly possible to directly authenticate in pangolin
yeah. it did. took a bit. i used headscale initramfs with dropbear for my servers. Didnt find anything for netbird so i copied the headscale initram script and changed it for netbird. But all works now. I like it.