In reply to: netcup VPS and NetBird BYOP by Jan-Lukas Else

As I told you, I recently switched to mainly using NetBird instead of Tailscale. NetBird released their “Bring your own proxy” functionality on the cloud-hosted version today. That gave me the perfect reason to finally try a VPS at netcup. I ordered the smallest one with just one core and one gigabyte of memory, but all it has to do is the reverse proxy work.

Netbird Reverse Proxy

I just read post from Jan-Lukas ☝️ about option that allows you to run own reverse proxy for netbird, and as I’m for all the fun, I had to try it.

Before, I used to use my own solution for proxying eServices, including a VPN with nginx, caddy or haproxy. It was a bit more complicated, but it was good for understanding how proxies work. The solution from Netbird is more user-friendly for self-hosters… 😊

Setup was straightforward, I used the docker-compose way, so i had to install Docker manually but then all you need is just copy content for your compose file (that nedbird prepare for you) and run docker compose up -d, and then your proxy is alive and prepaded for your commands.

I found information about netbird in one for earlier Jan-Lukas’s posts so today was easier to seup it for my service. The proxy has some nice features like built-in authentication (you can choose for example SSO, passord or pin and more).

I like those features but nebird stated that proxy is in beta and the features and pricing can change so I trying to not relly on that feature too much. But, for now I keep using it.