Top 23 Go VPN Projects

• v2ray-core

  26 27,849 9.0 Go

  A platform for building proxies to bypass network restrictions. (by v2fly)

  

Project mention: Russia has started indiscriminately blocking all OpenVPN/WireGuard connections | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-01-20

Hey there! Lots of experience with this having lived in China for 2 years. I recommend you look into xray-core or v2ray.

https://github.com/v2fly/v2ray-core

https://github.com/XTLS/Xray-core

Here are my configs: https://github.com/acheong08/notes/tree/main/xray

• Xray-core

  25 22,207 9.5 Go

  Xray, Penetrates Everything. Also the best v2ray-core, with XTLS support. Fully compatible configuration.

  

Project mention: WireGuard client that exposes itself as a HTTP/SOCKS5 proxy | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-01

- [xray](https://github.com/xtls/xray-core)

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• headscale

  222 20,069 9.3 Go

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

Project mention: List of ngrok/Cloudflare Tunnel alternatives and other tunneling software and services. Focus on self-hosting. | dev.to | 2024-04-30

headscale - Open source implementation of Tailscale control server. Can be used with Tailscale's official open source client. Written in Go.

• tailscale

  1,006 16,862 9.9 Go

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

  

Project mention: List of ngrok/Cloudflare Tunnel alternatives and other tunneling software and services. Focus on self-hosting. | dev.to | 2024-04-30

Tailscale - Built on WireGuard. Easy to use. Control server is closed source. Client code available with a BSD3 license + separate patents file.

• brook

  12 14,299 7.6 Go

  A cross-platform programmable network tool

Project mention: How Brook bypass domain regardless of their IP | /r/u_txthinking | 2023-05-26

Programming is very flexible, more can be found in documentation and other articles of this blog

• lantern

  1 14,242 8.8 Go

  Lantern官方版本下载 蓝灯 翻墙 代理 科学上网 外网 加速器 梯子 路由 - Быстрый, надежный и безопасный доступ к открытому интернету - lantern proxy vpn censorship-circumvention censorship gfw accelerator پراکسی لنترن، ضدسانسور، امن، قابل اعتماد و پرسرعت (by getlantern)

  

• Nebula

  141 13,840 8.6 Go

  A scalable overlay networking tool with a focus on performance, simplicity and security

  

Project mention: List of ngrok/Cloudflare Tunnel alternatives and other tunneling software and services. Focus on self-hosting. | dev.to | 2024-04-30

Nebula - Peer-to-peer overlay network. Developed and used internally by Slack. Similar to Tailscale but completely open source. Doesn't use WireGuard. Written in Go.

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• hysteria

  8 13,309 9.4 Go

  Hysteria is a powerful, lightning fast and censorship resistant proxy.

  

Project mention: Russia has started indiscriminately blocking all OpenVPN/WireGuard connections | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-01-20

As far as I know https://github.com/apernet/hysteria is the latest proxy protocol (used in China). Maybe try this

• netbird

  108 9,393 9.7 Go

  Connect your devices into a single secure private WireGuard®-based mesh network with SSO/MFA and simple access controls.

  

Project mention: Show HN: Wag, MFA and Enrollment for WireGuard | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-05-11

https://github.com/netbirdio/netbird seems to be completely open source (BSD), https://github.com/gravitl/netmaker?tab=License-1-ov-file#re... uses Apache for the non-pro stuff, and both of those I found by simply looking at https://github.com/topics/wireguard

This is why I asked, the phrase "I decided to reinvent the wheel which has honestly been quite fun with learning about eBPF, and recently clustering and HA with etcd" makes it sound like it's doing a bunch of cool stuff (which I want to hear about!), but the readme says nothing about those.

• Netmaker

  167 9,032 9.6 Go

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

  

Project mention: Show HN: Wag, MFA and Enrollment for WireGuard | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-05-11

https://github.com/netbirdio/netbird seems to be completely open source (BSD), https://github.com/gravitl/netmaker?tab=License-1-ov-file#re... uses Apache for the non-pro stuff, and both of those I found by simply looking at https://github.com/topics/wireguard

This is why I asked, the phrase "I decided to reinvent the wheel which has honestly been quite fun with learning about eBPF, and recently clustering and HA with etcd" makes it sound like it's doing a bunch of cool stuff (which I want to hear about!), but the readme says nothing about those.

• telepresence

  38 6,391 9.8 Go

  Local development against a remote Kubernetes or OpenShift cluster

  

Project mention: 12 Factor: 13 years later | dev.to | 2024-04-26

Solutions are many, and could include Docker Compose, VS Code dev containers, Telepresence, Localstack or setting up temporary AWS accounts as a development environment for serverless applications.

• wgcf

  59 5,602 7.5 Go

  🚤 Cross-platform, unofficial CLI for Cloudflare Warp

Project mention: Wireguard blocked but Cloudflare warp works | /r/WireGuard | 2023-08-30

I can successfully create wg profiles using wgcf and connect to Cloudflare servers.

• wireproxy

  22 4,016 6.6 Go

  Wireguard client that exposes itself as a socks5 proxy

Project mention: WireGuard client that exposes itself as a HTTP/SOCKS5 proxy | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-01

• Pomerium

  26 3,869 9.7 Go

  Pomerium is an identity and context-aware reverse proxy for zero-trust access to web applications and services.

  

Project mention: OAuth server for authorization | /r/googlecloud | 2023-12-05

Option 3: Pomerium might be an alternative as well.

• Cloak

  17 3,108 6.6 Go

  A censorship circumvention tool to evade detection by authoritarian state adversaries

Project mention: Any servers working in Russia left? | /r/mullvadvpn | 2023-06-21

• ziti

  86 2,153 9.8 Go

  The parent project for OpenZiti. Here you will find the executables for a fully zero trust, application embedded, programmable network @OpenZiti

  

Project mention: Show HN: Pico: An open-source Ngrok alternative built for production traffic | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-05-14

I worked on a minimal self-hosted ziti for Docker here https://github.com/openziti/ziti/tree/release-next/quickstar... and minimal self-hosted zrok (includes ziti) for Docker here https://docs.zrok.io/docs/guides/self-hosting/docker/

...so, basically:

wget https://get.openziti.io/dock/all-in-one/compose.yml

• kilo

  10 1,958 4.0 Go

  Kilo is a multi-cloud network overlay built on WireGuard and designed for Kubernetes (k8s + wg = kg) (by squat)

Project mention: NetMaker: Connect Everything with a WireGuard VPN | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-08-15

For the particular case of creating a wireguard mesh network in kubernetes, I've been quite happy with Kilo[0]. Does anyone with experience in both kilo and netmaker know how they compare?

[0]: https://kilo.squat.ai/

• weron

  15 1,749 3.8 Go

  Overlay networks based on WebRTC.

• wg-gen-web

  9 1,509 0.0 Go

  Simple Web based configuration generator for WireGuard

• kt-connect

  1 1,464 0.0 Go

  A toolkit for Integrating with your kubernetes dev environment more efficiently

  

• pritunl-client-electron

  3 1,214 9.3 Go

  Pritunl OpenVPN client

  

• drago

  7 1,103 0.0 Go

  ☁️ Securely connect anything with WireGuard® and manage all your networks from a single place.

  

• node

  49 1,079 9.2 Go

  Mysterium Network Node - official implementation of distributed VPN network (dVPN) protocol (by mysteriumnetwork)

  

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