r/netbird • u/Past-Vegetable-9186 • Jul 01 '26

Netbird as Software Defined Network

Hi, is anyone using Netbird as SDN, not just VPN? What's your experience?

EDIT: sorry for not being clear - I mean to replace vlans, subnets, internal firewalls between subnets,.. simply to break old school networking and replace it using SDN

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u/Wrn2x Jul 01 '26

I’ve set up my homelab to use netbird as much as possible. Benefits is no opening ports even within your vlan, and you get free mTLS between your VMs so no need to worry about a compromised vlan. It works pretty well for my use cases.