WireGuard Easy

You 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

We provide more then 1 docker image to get, this will help you decide which one is best for you.
For stable versions instead of nightly or development please read README from the production branch!

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 -d \
  --name=wg-easy \
  -e LANG=de \
  -e WG_HOST=<🚨YOUR_SERVER_IP> \
  -e PASSWORD_HASH=<🚨YOUR_ADMIN_PASSWORD_HASH> \
  -e PORT=51821 \
  -e WG_PORT=51820 \
  -v ~/.wg-easy:/etc/wireguard \
  -p 51820:51820/udp \
  -p 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 know how generate the hash.

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.

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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).
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.

Common Use Cases

• Using WireGuard-Easy with Pi-Hole
• Using WireGuard-Easy with nginx/SSL

For less common or specific edge-case scenarios, please refer to the detailed information provided in the Wiki.