NetBird: Simple & Secure WireGuard Mesh Networking
Looking for an easy way to connect your devices and servers securely across the internet? NetBird is a powerful WireGuard-based mesh VPN that makes remote access and private networking simple—even behind NAT or firewalls. In this video, I’ll walk you through how to set up NetBird for your self-hosted services, homelab, or remote devices.
✅ What You'll Learn:
🔹 What NetBird is and how it works
🔹 Installing NetBird on servers and clients
🔹 Creating a secure mesh network using WireGuard
🔹 Accessing private services and resources remotely
🔹 Best practices for access control and performance
Read the blog post accompanying this video: https://blog.serversatho.me/best-vpn-ever/
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📌 Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
1:17 Netbird dashboard
1:45 Adding Peers
2:58 Traditional VPNs vs Mesh VPNs
5:15 Create a Setup Key
6:38 Adding Netbird in TrueNAS via docker
7:07 Adding Netbird in TrueNAS via Incus LXC
9:18 We're connected!
9:45 Access Controls
11:45 Adding Networks
13:43 High availability subrouting?!?!
15:46 Complications exposing docker containers on the Netbird host
^ see the wiki for an extended explanation
18:13 Editing Policies
22:02 Outro
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