# Netbird - we added a REVERSE PROXY! - Open Source Cloudflare Alternative

**URL:** https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/netbird-we-added-a-reverse-proxy-open-source-cloudflare-alternative/35597
**Category:** General
**Created:** 2026-02-18T15:00:56Z
**Posts:** 1

## Post 1 by @kissu — 2026-02-18T15:00:56Z

If you ever wanted an alternative to:

- ngrok
- Cloudflare tunnels
- Pangolin (too apparently? never used that one myself)

Netbird shipped such a feature in their latest release

> **[we added a REVERSE PROXY! - Open Source Cloudflare Alternative](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edYQOxIQIGM&feature=youtu.be)**
>
> Available on Self-Hosted NOW! Coming soon to Cloud. https://docs.netbird.io/selfhosted/selfhosted-quickstart NetBird now includes a built-in reverse proxy di...

With possibility of having SSO + having a simple GUI àla `nginx-proxy-manager`.  
This will make me reconsider some of my own split all over tools in favor of just having 1 simple working one (while being less memory hungry :hamburger:).

They released DNS zones few weeks ago too skipping the need to reach out to an external endpoint for a loopback and keeping all of it locally self-hosted!

Glad to see that not everything is going to :poop: and some people do still care about doing nice things, the right way! Felt like sharing positive vibes today~ :sparkles:

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And if you’re still not super hardcore on self-hosting and using Tailscale, I guess it could be a slow progressive migration starting from their Cloud solution too.  
Haha, we’ll hopefully have people more excited[[1]](#footnote-140240-1) of trying self-hosting their own stuff in a nearby future. :light_blue_heart:

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1. or at least, less scared :hugs: [↩︎](#footnote-ref-140240-1)