What do people here think of Nebula?
What do people here think of Nebula?
I've been playing around with self hosting for file sharing, backups, and a handful of other ideas I might one day get round to. I like the idea of a mesh VPN and being able to, for example, connect a travelling laptop to a 'host' laptop nearby, though my only public ip is a VPS in another country.
Of all the options I found, I liked the look of Nebula most. Fiddly in some places, but it's working nicely for me, and I appreciate some of the simplicity of design.
I'm wondering if people here have much experience of it, though? My biggest concern is over its future. With,
- The Defined Networking site focusing on making money off it, and
- The Android app doesn't allow full configuration (including the firewall, so I can't host a website from a phone) but - I heard - does if you use Defined Networking's paid service for configuration,
makes me worry they might be essentially trying to deprecate viable FOSS Nebula in favour of a paid or controlled service.
Any thoughts? Insight?
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I’m using Headscale for work and Tailscale for personal use. I tried to use Nebula but it’s not easy as Tailscale.
Headscale server, open source, self hosted, with the open source tailscale clients are the way to go.
Yep, I tried Tailscale at home... 3 weeks later I started using it at work, so insanely easy.
Netbird is easier to use although it is a little less developed
I took a quick look at the GitHub repo - selfhosted Netbird looks harder and more resource hungry, not easier! At least compared to Nebula.
The UI is cleaner
Ok
Is Headscale easier than Nebula? I thought it looked like it might become much more work.
Nebula was mostly easy, but had a few hurdles I needed to learn.
- Setting up systemd. I think I had to look that up and write a startup thing for it. I might have copied one from Syncthing or something! I don't remember right now.
- firewalls confused me a couple of times
- and I had to get the hang of the certificate system of course
I have mixed feelings about trying Defined Networking's managed config, but I imagine that would get round the learning curve of the config.