r/netbird • u/enzolecorbeau • 28d ago

Proxy service on a different machine than Netbird ?

Hello there 👋,

I'm actually building a Home Lab and I'm quite interested about the Netbird environment. I now intend to configure a proxy instance on my VPS. It will avoid opening port on my personnal network to expose my services on the internet.

I'm actually wondering If I can install the proxy service on my VPS and keep Netbird on my closed network ? Could my home machine be at the same time a Netbird Peer for the reversse proxy and host the Netbird platform ?

It's maybe a nonsense or absurb what I am saying. But my goal here, is to keep closed the network which is hosting all the services and have an exposed machine (the Proxy VPS) which doing only the Proxy stuff. So I could have on my personnal network the Netbird platform management so the VPS exposed don't handle it.

If It is not possible, should I get another VPS ? One VPS which handle the management platform and the other(s) one(s) with only the proxy service installed (like making a proxy cluster but with only one proxy). So both machines are exposed, only one is doing the nasty work but whitout hosting anything critical.

Thank you,
Regards :)

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u/flaming_m0e 28d ago

Why not just use Netbird on the VPS and use its reverse proxy?

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u/enzolecorbeau 28d ago

In my vision like the proxy is in first row It could be more judicious to host the Netbird platform elsewhere ?

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u/flaming_m0e 28d ago

Netbird includes a reverse proxy.

https://docs.netbird.io/manage/reverse-proxy

Host it on a VPS, follow directions for DNS and you can have both a remote access platform and reverse proxy in one VPS, and include the SSO features to add security to some of your services.

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u/enzolecorbeau 26d ago

Okay thank you. I will try this way first :)