import {Note} from "@/components/mdx"
import {HowToGuides} from "@/components/How-To-Guides"
import {AboutNetbird} from "@/components/AboutNetbird"

export const description =
  'Learn everything there is to know about NetBird.'

# Introduction to NetBird

<p>
    <img src="/docs-static/img/open-source-zero-trust-networking.png" alt="high-level-dia" className="imagewrapper-big"/>
</p>

NetBird is an Open-Source Zero Trust Networking platform that allows you to create secure private networks for your
organization or home. We designed NetBird to be simple and fast, requiring near-zero configuration effort and leaving
behind the hassle of opening ports, complex firewall rules, VPN gateways, etc.

<Note>
    NetBird is an **[open-source](https://github.com/netbirdio/netbird)** project and can be self-hosted.
    See a comparison between the self-hosted and cloud-hosted versions [here](/selfhosted/self-hosted-vs-cloud-netbird).
</Note>

There is no centralized VPN server with NetBird - your computers, devices, machines, and servers connect to each other directly over a fast encrypted tunnel.
It creates a high-performance point-to-point [WireGuard®](https://www.wireguard.com/) overlay network that connects machines running anywhere in just a few clicks.

It literally takes less than 5 minutes to deploy a secure point-to-point VPN with NetBird.

<div className="not-prose mb-16 mt-6 flex gap-3">
  <Button href="https://app.netbird.io/install" arrow="right" children="Get started" />
  <Button href="https://github.com/netbirdio/netbird" variant="outline" children="Explore Github" />
</div>

<AboutNetbird />

<HowToGuides />


