Migration from Tailscale: public endpoint/tunnel and LetsEncrypt certificates #1123

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opened 2025-11-20 05:24:27 -05:00 by saavagebueno · 1 comment
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Originally created by @bartbutenaers on GitHub (Aug 2, 2024).

Dear,

I was investigating whether I could replace my current Tailscale setup by Netbird.
But there are 2 Tailscale features which I cannot find (at first sight) in Netbird:

  1. Tailscale offers funnels, which allows you to create a make a service (running at port x of a device on your LAN) public available on the internet. Withouth having to setup port forwarding on your router. The endpoint will be accessible on the internet via a Tailscale subdomain.

  2. Tailscale offers Letsencrypt certificates (inclusive renewal) on their agents. So by navigating to a device via the Tailscale hostname, you can use https based on these certificates. These certificates are also available via the public funnels (see previous points).

Would be nice if anybody could let me know if Netbird offers an alternative for these features.
Or if some of these features are already on some roadmap perhaps for the near feature.

Thanks for illuminating me!!
Bart

Originally created by @bartbutenaers on GitHub (Aug 2, 2024). Dear, I was investigating whether I could replace my current Tailscale setup by Netbird. But there are 2 Tailscale features which I cannot find (at first sight) in Netbird: 1. Tailscale offers _**funnels**_, which allows you to create a make a service (running at port x of a device on your LAN) public available on the internet. Withouth having to setup port forwarding on your router. The endpoint will be accessible on the internet via a Tailscale subdomain. 2. Tailscale offers ***Letsencrypt certificates*** (inclusive renewal) on their agents. So by navigating to a device via the Tailscale hostname, you can use https based on these certificates. These certificates are also available via the public funnels (see previous points). Would be nice if anybody could let me know if Netbird offers an alternative for these features. Or if some of these features are already on some roadmap perhaps for the near feature. Thanks for illuminating me!! Bart
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@renne commented on GitHub (Jan 31, 2025):

Tailscale Funnel and Serve alternatives with Let's-Encrypt-Certificates in Netbird would allow to access HTTPS resources from inside (Serve) and outside (Funnel) of the Netbird network without annoying "This website is not secure"-messages from browsers.

In the Bring-Your-Own-Domain case I suggest to use the libdns-library to add/delete the sub-domains and ACME-records.

@renne commented on GitHub (Jan 31, 2025): Tailscale Funnel and Serve alternatives with Let's-Encrypt-Certificates in Netbird would allow to access HTTPS resources from inside (Serve) and outside (Funnel) of the Netbird network without annoying "This website is not secure"-messages from browsers. In the Bring-Your-Own-Domain case I suggest to use the [libdns](https://github.com/libdns/libdns)-library to add/delete the sub-domains and ACME-records.
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Reference: SVI/netbird#1123