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juanfont/headscale

An open source, self-hosted implementation of the Tailscale control server

AI dev
Updated
2026-10-16
Lists
2 list mentions
First commit
2020-06-21
History
17 history points
License
BSD-3-Clause
Issues
137 open
Forks
2,636
Commits
4,703 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
+188 +0.4%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
+20 +0.4%
tailscale/tailscale

The easiest, most secure way to use WireGuard and 2FA.

Updated
2026-09-21
Lists
1 list mention
First commit
2020-01-31
History
7 history points
License
BSD-3-Clause
Issues
4,619 open
Forks
3,227
Commits
11,353 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
hiddify/hiddify-app

Multi-platform auto-proxy client, supporting Sing-box, X-ray, TUIC, Hysteria, Reality, Trojan, SSH etc. It’s an open-source, secure and ad-free.

AI dev
Updated
2026-08-10
Lists
2 list mentions
First commit
2023-05-21
History
9 history points
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
31 open
Forks
3,040
Commits
2,821 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
netbirdio/netbird

Connect your devices, users, and agents into a secure WireGuard®-based overlay network with SSO, MFA and granular access controls.

AI dev
Updated
2026-10-04
Lists
1 list mention
First commit
2021-05-01
History
5 history points
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
1,156 open
Forks
1,733
Commits
3,416 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
StreisandEffect/streisand

Streisand sets up a new server running your choice of WireGuard, OpenConnect, OpenSSH, OpenVPN, Shadowsocks, sslh, Stunnel, or a Tor bridge. It also generates custom instructions for all of these services. At the end of the run you are given an HTML file with instructions that can be shared with friends, family members, and fellow activists.

Archived
Updated
2021-05-04
Lists
2 list mentions
First commit
2014-03-23
History
5 history points
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
237 open
Forks
1,940
Commits
1,424 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
0 0.0%
fosrl/pangolin

Modern networking and security platform providing secure access and connectivity to apps, infrastructure, and AI workloads. Connect and protect your users.

AI dev
Updated
2026-10-07
Lists
1 list mention
First commit
2024-09-27
History
8 history points
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
113 open
Forks
793
Commits
8,587 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
passteque/gluetun

VPN client in a thin Docker container for multiple VPN providers, written in Go, and using OpenVPN or Wireguard, DNS over TLS, with a few proxy servers built-in.

AI dev
Updated
2026-09-16
Lists
2 list mentions
First commit
2018-02-06
History
8 history points
License
MIT
Issues
335 open
Forks
620
Commits
2,446 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
SoftEtherVPN/SoftEtherVPN

Cross-platform multi-protocol VPN software. Pull requests are welcome. The stable version is available at https://github.com/SoftEtherVPN/SoftEtherVPN_Stable.

AI dev
Updated
2026-10-06
Lists
1 list mention
First commit
2014-01-02
History
8 history points
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
297 open
Forks
2,790
Commits
2,277 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
0 0.0%
gravitl/netmaker

Netmaker makes networks with WireGuard. Netmaker automates fast, secure, and distributed virtual networks.

Updated
2026-10-03
Lists
3 list mentions
First commit
2021-03-25
History
8 history points
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
233 open
Forks
658
Commits
7,893 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
octelium/octelium

A next-gen FOSS self-hosted unified zero trust secure access platform that can operate as a remote access VPN, a ZTNA platform, API/AI/MCP gateway, a PaaS, an ngrok-alternative and a homelab infrastructure.

Updated
2026-10-12
Lists
0 list mentions
First commit
2025-05-18
History
69 history points
License
AGPL-3.0
Issues
18 open
Forks
157
Commits
2,021 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
-1 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
0 0.0%
DefGuard/defguard

Zero-Trust access management with true WireGuard® 2FA/MFA

Updated
2026-09-18
Lists
1 list mention
First commit
2022-10-21
History
6 history points
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
310 open
Forks
114
Commits
1,747 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
sleep3r/mtproto.zig

Keep the people you love connected — a tiny self-hosted Telegram proxy that hides in plain HTTPS

Updated
2026-10-01
Lists
1 list mention
First commit
2026-03-29
History
6 history points
License
MIT
Issues
6 open
Forks
103
Commits
327 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
anasfanani/magisk-tailscaled

Magisk/KernelSU module for running Tailscale on rooted Android devices. The easiest, most secure way to use WireGuard and 2FA.

Updated
2025-11-04
Lists
1 list mention
First commit
2023-12-13
History
5 history points
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
13 open
Forks
64
Commits
119 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
0 0.0%