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• Real WireGuard® MFA (not 2FA to "access application" like most solutions)
• Integrated SSO based on OpenID Connect:
  • significant cost saving, simplifying deployment and maintenance
  • enabling features unavailable to VPN platforms relying upon 3rd party SSO integration
• Already using Google/Microsoft or other OpenID Provider? - integrated external OpenID provider support
• Yubico YubiKey Hardware security key management and provisioning
• Secure and robust architecture, featuring components and micro-services seamlessly deployable in diverse network setups (eg. utilizing network segments like Demilitarized Zones, Intranet with no external access, etc), ensuring a secure environment.
• Enterprise ready (multiple Locations/Gateways/Kubernetes deployment, etc..)
• Build on WireGuard® protocol which is faster than IPSec, and significantly faster than OpenVPN
• Build with Rust for speed and security

See below full list of features

Video introduction

Baring in mind we are no youtubers - just engineers - here is a video introduction to defguard:

Control plane management (this video is few versions behind... - a lot has changed!)

Better quality video can be found here to download

Desktop Client with 2FA / MFA (Multi-Factor Authentication)

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Desktop client:

• 2FA / Multi-Factor Authentication with TOTP or email based tokens & WireGuard PSK
• Defguard instances as well as any WireGuard tunnel - just import your tunnels - one client for all WireGuard connections
• Secure and remote user enrollment - setting up password, automatically configuring the client for all VPN Locations/Networks
• Onboarding - displaying custom onboarding messages, with templates, links ...
• Ability to route predefined VPN traffic or all traffic (server needs to have NAT configured - in gateway example)
• Live & real-time network charts
• live VPN logs
• light/dark theme

Quick start

The easiest way to run your own defguard instance is to use Docker and our one-line install script. Just run the command below in your shell and follow the prompts:

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DefGuard/deployment/main/docker-compose/setup.sh -O && bash setup.sh

Here is a step-by-step video about this process:

To learn more about the script and available options please see the documentation.

Setup a VPN server under 5min!?

Just follow this tutorial

Manual deployment examples

• Standalone system package based install
• Using Docker Compose
• Using Kubernetes

Roadmap & Development backlog

A detailed product roadmap and development status can be found here

⛑️ Want to help? ⛑️

Here is a dedicated view for good first bugs

Why?

The story and motivation behind defguard can be found here: https://teonite.com/blog/defguard/

Features

• WireGuard® VPN server with:
  • Real and unique Multi-Factor Authentication with TOTP/Email & Pre-Shared Session Keys
  • multiple VPN Locations (networks/sites) - with defined access (all users or only Admin group)
  • multiple Gateways for each VPN Location (high availability/failover) - supported on a cluster of routers/firewalls for Linux, FreeBSD/PFSense/OPNSense
  • import your current WireGuard® server configuration (with a wizard!)
  • most beautiful Desktop Client! (in our opinion ;-))
  • automatic IP allocation
  • kernel (Linux, FreeBSD/OPNSense/PFSense) & userspace WireGuard® support with our Rust library
  • dashboard and statistics overview of connected users/devices for admins
  • defguard is not an official WireGuard® project, and WireGuard is a registered trademark of Jason A. Donenfeld.
• Integrated SSO: OpenID Connect provider - with unique features:
  • Secure remote (over the internet) user enrollment
  • User onboarding after enrollment
  • LDAP (tested on OpenLDAP) synchronization
  • forward auth for reverse proxies (tested with Traefik and Caddy)
  • nice UI to manage users
  • Users self-service (besides typical data management, users can revoke access to granted apps, MFA, WireGuard®, etc.)
  • Multi-Factor/2FA Authentication:
  • Time-based One-Time Password Algorithm (TOTP - e.g. Google Authenticator)
  • WebAuthn / FIDO2 - for hardware key authentication support (eg. YubiKey, FaceID, TouchID, ...)
  • Email based TOTP
• Extenal SSO: External OpenID Providers support - in testing, watch this issue - Google, Microsoft or custom
• SSH & GPG public key management in user profile - with SSH keys authentication for servers
• Yubikey hardware keys provisioning for users by one click
• Email/SMTP support for notifications, remote enrollment and onboarding
• Easy support with sending debug/support information
• Webhooks & REST API
• Build with Rust for portability, security, and speed
• UI Library - our beautiful React/TypeScript UI is a collection of React components:
  • a set of custom and beautiful components for the layout
  • Responsive Web Design (supporting mobile phones, tablets, etc..)
  • iOS Web App
• Checked by professional security researchers (see comprehensive security report)
• End2End tests

Documentation

See the documentation for more information.

Community and Support

Find us on Matrix: #defguard:teonite.com

Contribution

Please review the Contributing guide for information on how to get started contributing to the project. You might also find our environment setup guide handy.

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Legal

WireGuard® is registered trademarks of Jason A. Donenfeld.