By zulphiqarCategories: Hosting, Linux, Linux, Servers

ou have found the easiest way to install & manage WireGuard on any Linux host!

Features

 

  • All-in-one: WireGuard + Web UI.
  • Easy installation, simple to use.
  • List, create, edit, delete, enable & disable clients.
  • Show a client’s QR code.
  • Download a client’s configuration file.
  • Statistics for which clients are connected.
  • Tx/Rx charts for each connected client.
  • Gravatar support.
  • Automatic Light / Dark Mode
  • Multilanguage Support
  • Traffic Stats (default off)
  • One Time Links (default off)
  • Client Expiry (default off)
  • Prometheus metrics support

Requirements

 

  • A host with a kernel that supports WireGuard (all modern kernels).
  • A host with Docker installed.

Versions

 

💡 For the stable version please read instructions on the production branch!

We provide more than 1 docker image tag, the following will help you decide which one suites the best for you.

tag Branch Example Description
latest production ghcr.io/wg-easy/wg-easy:latest or ghcr.io/wg-easy/wg-easy stable as possbile get bug fixes quickly when needed, deployed against production.
14 production ghcr.io/wg-easy/wg-easy:14 same as latest, stick to a version tag.
nightly master ghcr.io/wg-easy/wg-easy:nightly mostly unstable gets frequent package and code updates, deployed against master.
development pull requests ghcr.io/wg-easy/wg-easy:development used for development, testing code from PRs before landing into master.

Installation

 

1. Install Docker

 

If you haven’t installed Docker yet, install it by running:

curl -sSL https://get.docker.com | sh
sudo usermod -aG docker $(whoami)
exit

And log in again.

2. Run WireGuard Easy

 

To automatically install & run wg-easy, simply run:

docker run --detach \
  --name wg-easy \
  --env LANG=de \
  --env WG_HOST=<🚨YOUR_SERVER_IP> \
  --env PASSWORD_HASH='<🚨YOUR_ADMIN_PASSWORD_HASH>' \
  --env PORT=51821 \
  --env WG_PORT=51820 \
  --volume ~/.wg-easy:/etc/wireguard \
  --publish 51820:51820/udp \
  --publish 51821:51821/tcp \
  --cap-add NET_ADMIN \
  --cap-add SYS_MODULE \
  --sysctl 'net.ipv4.conf.all.src_valid_mark=1' \
  --sysctl 'net.ipv4.ip_forward=1' \
  --restart unless-stopped \
  ghcr.io/wg-easy/wg-easy

💡 Replace <🚨YOUR_SERVER_IP> with your WAN IP, or a Dynamic DNS hostname.

💡 Replace <🚨YOUR_ADMIN_PASSWORD_HASH> with a bcrypt password hash to log in on the Web UI. See How_to_generate_an_bcrypt_hash.md for instructions on how to generate a hashed password.

The Web UI will now be available on http://0.0.0.0:51821.

The Prometheus metrics will now be available on http://0.0.0.0:51821/metrics. Grafana dashboard 21733

💡 Your configuration files will be saved in ~/.wg-easy

WireGuard Easy can be launched with Docker Compose as well – just download docker-compose.yml, make necessary adjustments and execute docker compose up --detach.

3. Sponsor

 

Are you enjoying this project? Buy Emile a beer! 🍻
Donation to core component: WireGuard

Options

 

These options can be configured by setting environment variables using -e KEY="VALUE" in the docker run command.

Env Default Example Description
PORT 51821 6789 TCP port for Web UI.
WEBUI_HOST 0.0.0.0 localhost IP address web UI binds to.
PASSWORD_HASH – $2y$05$Ci... When set, requires a password when logging in to the Web UI. See How to generate an bcrypt hash.md for know how generate the hash.
WG_HOST – vpn.myserver.com The public hostname of your VPN server.
WG_DEVICE eth0 ens6f0 Ethernet device the wireguard traffic should be forwarded through.
WG_PORT 51820 12345 The public UDP port of your VPN server. WireGuard will listen on that (othwise default) inside the Docker container.
WG_CONFIG_PORT 51820 12345 The UDP port used on Home Assistant Plugin
WG_MTU null 1420 The MTU the clients will use. Server uses default WG MTU.
WG_PERSISTENT_KEEPALIVE 0 25 Value in seconds to keep the “connection” open. If this value is 0, then connections won’t be kept alive.
WG_DEFAULT_ADDRESS 10.8.0.x 10.6.0.x Clients IP address range.
WG_DEFAULT_DNS 1.1.1.1 8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4 DNS server clients will use. If set to blank value, clients will not use any DNS.
WG_ALLOWED_IPS 0.0.0.0/0, ::/0 192.168.15.0/24, 10.0.1.0/24 Allowed IPs clients will use.
WG_PRE_UP ... – See config.js for the default value.
WG_POST_UP ... iptables ... See config.js for the default value.
WG_PRE_DOWN ... – See config.js for the default value.
WG_POST_DOWN ... iptables ... See config.js for the default value.
WG_ENABLE_EXPIRES_TIME false true Enable expire time for clients
LANG en de Web UI language (Supports: en, ua, ru, tr, no, pl, fr, de, ca, es, ko, vi, nl, is, pt, chs, cht, it, th, hi, ja, si).
UI_TRAFFIC_STATS false true Enable detailed RX / TX client stats in Web UI
UI_CHART_TYPE 0 1 UI_CHART_TYPE=0 # Charts disabled, UI_CHART_TYPE=1 # Line chart, UI_CHART_TYPE=2 # Area chart, UI_CHART_TYPE=3 # Bar chart
WG_ENABLE_ONE_TIME_LINKS false true Enable display and generation of short one time download links (expire after 5 minutes)
MAX_AGE 0 1440 The maximum age of Web UI sessions in minutes. 0 means that the session will exist until the browser is closed.
UI_ENABLE_SORT_CLIENTS false true Enable UI sort clients by name
ENABLE_PROMETHEUS_METRICS false true Enable Prometheus metrics http://0.0.0.0:51821/metrics and http://0.0.0.0:51821/metrics/json
PROMETHEUS_METRICS_PASSWORD – $2y$05$Ci... If set, Basic Auth is required when requesting metrics. See How to generate an bcrypt hash.md for know how generate the hash.

If you change WG_PORT, make sure to also change the exposed port.

Updating

 

To update to the latest version, simply run:

docker stop wg-easy
docker rm wg-easy
docker pull ghcr.io/wg-easy/wg-easy

And then run the docker run -d \ ... command above again.

With Docker Compose WireGuard Easy can be updated with a single command: docker compose up --detach --pull always (if an image tag is specified in the Compose file and it is not latest, make sure that it is changed to the desired one; by default it is omitted and defaults to latest).
The WireGuared Easy container will be automatically recreated if a newer image was pulled.

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