Netmaker Reviews and Details

Questions & Answers

1. What makes Netmaker unique?

   1. Netmaker uses kernel WireGuard, which makes it way faster and more modern than the alternatives.
   2. Netmaker can also be fully "self-hosted" so you don't have to rely on a 3rd party with potential access to your sensitive data. 3 Netmaker creates a Mesh VPN, which is like the best of software-defined networking, zero trust, and VPNs all combined into one.

2. Why should a person choose Netmaker over its competitors?

   Netmaker is faster, more configurable, cheaper, and can be fully-self hosted. With Netmaker, you're in control.

3. How would you describe the primary audience of Netmaker?

   IT admins, sysadmins, DevOps, InfraOps, platform engineers, and developers.

4. Which are the primary technologies used for building Netmaker?

   WireGuard, Golang, and Docker.

Is Netmaker good?

Social recommendations and mentions

• PrivateVPN is horrible. Don't do it.

  With Netmaker, you can have greater control and customization by assigning dedicated IP addresses to specific nodes within your network. I just stumble upon it yesterday, check it out. Source: about 3 years ago

• Benefit of connect device under NAT to VPN network

  These days, I'm trying to deploy full mesh VPN network with netmaker. It is really easy to use and manage. However there are something makes me confused. Source: about 3 years ago

• Web based self service CA for OpenVPN

  If a TCP based protocol isn't an absolute must have, I'd ditch OpenVPN for Wireguard with some kind of management overlay. e.g netmaker. Source: about 3 years ago

• Tailscale increased free plan user limit form 1 to 3 and device cap to 100 also... unlimited subnets

  Do the net maker https://github.com/gravitl/netmaker worth trying to use instead of Tailscale? Tailscale is good, but I can watch YouTube over Wi-Fi in another country, but when I try to use Jellyfin to watch movies it’s not loading well. Source: over 3 years ago

• Tips & Tricks for Productivity with Android E-Ink Devices (Obsidian, Syncthing, Weylus, RustDesk, Termux, KDE Connect, ZeroTier)

  Very relatable! At first, I struggled for days trying to make Netmaker or Innernet functional for my personal home server (Raspberry Pi behind multiple routers). But then I stumbled upon ZeroTier, and everything worked seamlessly within a couple of hours. Tailscale was actually the next one on my list because I heard many positive things about it over at r/selfhosted (especially about headscale). However, I did... Source: over 3 years ago

• Access jellyfin server in app remotelly

  I do something similar but I use netmaker instead of tailscale. Source: over 3 years ago

• K8s cluster with OCI free-tier and Raspberry Pi4 (part 3)

  Netmaker from here and documentation here;. - Source: dev.to / over 3 years ago

• Zerotier - Tailscale - MeshVPNs

  Did you look at netmaker https://github.com/gravitl/netmaker it is completely self hosted. Source: over 3 years ago

• Dynamic configuration for allowed IPs

  Not if you are running wireguard without any management client/server like Netmaker or innernet or any of the many others like them. Source: over 3 years ago

• The best reason for Tailscale : Map Network Drive

  In other words, it's a really nice layer on top of Wireguard that makes your life a lot easier. If you're looking to do something similar without paying for Tailscale and hosting it a little yourself, check out NetMaker or running HeadScale, which is an opensource TailScale server. Source: over 3 years ago

• PSA: Twingate while NOT being open source, performs significantly faster for me compared to wireguard or tailscale. I recommend trying it out if speed is priority

  I'd go with Netmaker, which is faster and opensource. Source: over 3 years ago

• Simplest way to place existing public GCE VMs behind IAP and only allow our internal users?

  We looked at IAP, and tried it out on a few things like Jenkins servers, but eventually concluded that a Wireguard VPN was a better fit for us. There are tools like Netmaker to simplify and automate the setup if you need that. Source: over 3 years ago

• Open Source P2P Mesh Network with Kernel WireGuard and SSO+MFA

  Looks like https://github.com/gravitl/netmaker with different Auth methods, will have to try netbird out to compare ! Source: almost 4 years ago

• WireGuard Mesh with Fallback Server?

  Maybe you could look at NetMaker, it may have the features that you need. Source: almost 4 years ago

• NAT TCP/UDP Holepunching / Port forwarding tool, p2p clients?

  If you have to deal with lots of users, that's a whole different story. Take a look at Netmaker and Headscale. Source: almost 4 years ago

• Software VPN to remote in and connect to PLCs?

  More recently I've started using Wireguard via github.com/gravitl/netmaker which is a super simple VPN network configurator. Some PLC manufacturers may not support wireguard yet though. Source: almost 4 years ago

• A Tailscale Package for pfSense!

  You can host your own "Tailscale" style service with Wireguard already. Sign up for the Always Free tier of Oracle Cloud, spin up an instance of Ubuntu and use a project like Netmaker or Algo to setup the remote clients. Source: about 4 years ago

• External Access to Synology over VPN using WireGuard and Netmaker

  I just wanted to share our GitHub project Netmaker, which sets up mesh VPN's and enables you to create private and secure connections to devices. Netmaker uses kernel WireGuard, which is very very fast, so it's great for data transfer. Source: about 4 years ago

• Generic OIDC in Netmaker v0.14.5

  For those unfamiliar, Netmaker is a self-hosted WireGuard network management and automation platform. Source: about 4 years ago

• Creating a LAN without dedicated/ISP's router

  Maybe look into https://github.com/gravitl/netmaker for this, as it seems to make it easier, especially for beginners. They have a nice Video on YouTube explaining the possibilities. Source: about 4 years ago

• SME use?

  OpenVPN on its own is designed to cover those higher-level functions. WireGuard is just lower level, which is why people have built OpenVPN-like abstractions on top of WireGuard. We build one called Netmaker, and there's several other options as well. I don't think WireGuard lacking those functionalities is a good reason to disregard it, given all the speed, security, and efficiency benefits. Source: about 4 years ago