I struggled to get netmaker to work. Everything showed connected and green, yet nodes couldn’t ping each other. There is very little troubleshooting guides and I was stuck. The documentation is randomly outdated (I don’t think there is a single screenshot that matches the UI I was seeing) and the only tip I found on the website was to change the MTU which did nothing for me. The other tip on GitHub was “check your firewall” which I’m not sure what that means. I thought the entire point of netmaker was to bypass that.
Oh and I tried to signup for the cloud offering instead of self hosting it, and got a generic “Tenant failed setup” email. Again, no action to take…
I got headscale and Netbird to work, but I much preferred the latter. It just works.
Edit: to add, the default installer results in 2 broken containers in the generated docker compose file (coredns and TURN server) that I had to fix manually by changing their tags.
I used it about a year and a half ago and I had the same takeaway. When I got it working, it worked well and was reasonably stable. But I basically could not upgrade without performing a fresh install after a few months. I filed it away as something to revisit as the product matured and more guarantees around upgrades were able to be offered
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I struggled to get netmaker to work. Everything showed connected and green, yet nodes couldn’t ping each other. There is very little troubleshooting guides and I was stuck. The documentation is randomly outdated (I don’t think there is a single screenshot that matches the UI I was seeing) and the only tip I found on the website was to change the MTU which did nothing for me. The other tip on GitHub was “check your firewall” which I’m not sure what that means. I thought the entire point of netmaker was to bypass that.
Oh and I tried to signup for the cloud offering instead of self hosting it, and got a generic “Tenant failed setup” email. Again, no action to take…
I got headscale and Netbird to work, but I much preferred the latter. It just works.
Edit: to add, the default installer results in 2 broken containers in the generated docker compose file (coredns and TURN server) that I had to fix manually by changing their tags.
I used it about a year and a half ago and I had the same takeaway. When I got it working, it worked well and was reasonably stable. But I basically could not upgrade without performing a fresh install after a few months. I filed it away as something to revisit as the product matured and more guarantees around upgrades were able to be offered
Yeah, I’m definitely keeping an eye on it because I like the way it manages wireguard clients more, but it’s still pretty rough.