Hello everyone, Brandon from NetBird.

NetBird 0.78 introduces Draft Mode in the Control Center. The Control Center is the network map that shows your peers, groups, policies, networks, and resources. Draft Mode makes it so you can use that map into an editor, so you can restructure access by dragging connections on a canvas, then review the exact API calls before anything is applied to your live network.

NetBird is an open source, WireGuard based zero trust networking platform that connects your machines into a private overlay network with identity based access control.

GitHub: https://github.com/netbirdio/netbird

Draft Mode

Start from an empty draft or from your current live view. Starting from the current view breaks your existing infrastructure out by group so you can edit what is already running.

• Drag connections between groups and resources to create access rules, like giving a dev group SSH to a specific host
• Add servers, agents, policies, groups, networks, and resources from the canvas
• Install a new peer directly from the draft using a single use setup key, then wire it up on the map
• Connecting a peer with no policy opens the policy creation window automatically, with port and protocol config
• Add routing peers and resources to your networks
• Switch policies between bi-directional and uni-directional inline
• Focus view isolates a single group and hides everything else, which matters once your map has more than a handful of overlapping policies

Docs: https://docs.netbird.io/manage/control-center/draft-mode

There has also been many other updates around performance and stability. You can see the release notes here: netbirdio/netbird and netbirdio/dashboard

Announcement Article: https://netbird.io/knowledge-hub/control-center-draft-mode