Firezone

A modern alternative to legacy VPNs.

Note: 🚧 The main branch is undergoing major restructuring in preparation

for the release of Firezone 1.x 🚧.

See the legacy branch to track the latest changes to Firezone 0.7.

Read the 1.0 announcement for more.

Firezone is an open source platform to securely manage remote access for any-sized organization. Unlike most VPNs, Firezone takes a granular, least-privileged approach to access management with group-based policies that control access to individual applications, entire subnets, and everything in between.

Features

Firezone is:

• Fast: Built on WireGuard® to be 3-4 times faster than OpenVPN.
• Scalable: Deploy two or more gateways for automatic load balancing and failover.
• Private: Peer-to-peer, end-to-end encrypted tunnels prevent packets from routing through our infrastructure.
• Secure: Zero attack surface thanks to Firezone's holepunching tech which establishes tunnels on-the-fly at the time of access.
• Open: Our entire product is open-source, allowing anyone to audit the codebase.
• Flexible: Authenticate users via email, Google Workspace, or OIDC and sync users and groups automatically.
• Simple: Deploy gateways and configure access in minutes with a snappy admin UI.

Firezone is not:

• A tool for creating bi-directional mesh networks
• A full-featured router or firewall
• An IPSec or OpenVPN server

Contents of this repository

This is a monorepo containing the full Firezone product, marketing website, and product documentation, organized as follows:

• elixir: Control plane and internal Elixir libraries:
  • elixir/apps/web: Admin UI
  • elixir/apps/api: API for Clients, Relays and Gateways.

• rust/: Data plane and internal Rust libraries:
  • rust/gateway: Gateway - Tunnel server based on WireGuard and deployed to your infrastructure.
  • rust/relay: Relay - STUN/TURN server to facilitate holepunching.
  • rust/linux-client: Linux client.
  • rust/windows-client: Windows client.

• swift/: macOS / iOS clients.
• kotlin/: Android / ChromeOS clients.
• website/: Marketing website and product documentation.
• terraform/: Terraform files for our cloud infrastructure:
  • terraform/modules/gateway-google-cloud-compute: Example Terraform module for deploying a Gateway to a Google Compute Regional Instance Group.

Firezone 1.x is currently accepting early access signups for closed testing. Fill out the early access form to request access and we'll be in touch!

Frequently asked questions (FAQ) Can I self-host Firezone?

Our license won't stop you from self-hosting the entire Firezone product top to bottom, but we can't commit the resources to make this a smooth experience and therefore don't support self-hosting the control plane at this time.

If you have a business case requiring an on-prem installation of Firezone please get in touch.

If you're feeling especially adventurous and want to self-host Firezone for educational or recreational purposes, you'll want to build and distribute the clients from source to ensure they remain locked to a version compatible with your self-hosted control plane. Unfortunately, the following clients must be distributed through proprietary app stores due to restrictions imposed by Apple and Google:

• macOS
• iOS
• Android / ChromeOS

Because it's impossible to select which client version to install from a particular app store, building and distributing Firezone from source is the only to way self-host Firezone at this time.

Otherwise, if you're hobbyist or developer and are looking to spin it up locally to contribute or experiment with, see CONTRIBUTING.md.

How do I upgrade from 0.7?

Unfortunately, you can't. The good news is Firezone 1.x is much easier to setup and manage than 0.x and so you probably don't need to.

How long will 0.7 be supported until?

Firezone 0.7 is currently end-of-life and will stop receiving updates after January 31st, 2024.

Documentation

Additional documentation on general usage, troubleshooting, and configuration can be found at https://docs.firezone.dev.

Get Help

If you're looking for help installing, configuring, or using Firezone, check our community support options:

1. Discussion Forums: Ask questions, report bugs, and suggest features.
2. Public Slack Group: Join live discussions, meet other users, and get to know the contributors.
3. Open a PR: Contribute a bugfix or make a contribution to Firezone.

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Developing and Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md.

Security

See SECURITY.md.

License

Portions of this software are licensed as follows:

• All content residing under the "elixir/" directory of this repository, if that directory exists, is licensed under the "Elastic License 2.0" license defined in "elixir/LICENSE".
• All third party components incorporated into the Firezone Software are licensed under the original license provided by the owner of the applicable component.
• Content outside of the above mentioned directories or restrictions above is available under the "Apache 2.0 License" license as defined in "LICENSE".

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