Part two of the NetBird series. What the self-hosted control plane is actually made of - management as the brain, signal as the introducer, relay as the NAT fallback, a dashboard, and an identity provider. The big 2026 change is that NetBird now ships an embedded IdP, so you no longer have to stand up Zitadel just to get started. Plus what you have to provide, why the relay is what breaks, and how peers join with setup keys.
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