Recommendation for a Wireguard Mesh network

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Tailscale.
I don't understand people compaing a mesh network to simple wireguard. It is not the same.
- It really isn't. I do agree that for most purposes a static network with some central public nodes is the answer, but I want something more dynamic
Tailscale is the best with netbird in a close second if you want to self host, headscale works great.
- With Headscale being an open source, self-hosted implementation of the Tailscale control server.
  
  Very cool, does it have an iOS client? Or can the official iOS client use that control server?
  
  Edit: yes, wonderful! https://headscale.net/usage/connect/apple/#configuring-the-headscale-url
I just use ansible to generate all wireguard configs and deploy them. Works great, but then, all my devices have static ips.
- Oh God. Please, use anything but Ansible.
  
  Why? And what would be a replacement for it?
NetMaker is like Tailscale. It uses Kernel wireguard unlike Tailslace which uses user space wireguard.

The only downside is that you need to pay for it or you can host your own server (but is kinda tricky to do)
- I didn't know NetBird existed. I may switch to it because it seems to be literally the same as NetMaker
WireGuard works great for that.
I use NetBird ist easy, free and powerfull
GL.iNet has a mesh router based on OpenWRT and supports WireGuard.

https://www.gl-inet.com/products/gl-b1300/

I have the Flint 2 and like it quite a lot but don't have experience with this other router.

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