wg-manager

The wg-manager provides an easy-to-use graphical web interface to import, setup, and manage WireGuard server(s). See Here

The features of wg-manager includes:

Server

• IPv4 and IPv6 support
• Create/Delete/Modify
• Start/Stop/Restart server
• Import existing configurations
• Export server config, along with client config as zip.

Peer

• Create/Delete/Modify
• Bandwidth usage statistics
• Export by QRCode, Text
• Authentication via API-Keys for automation (Created in GUI)
• Automatic setup using docker

General

• Modify Admin User
• Create and manage API-Keys

Dependencies

• Linux Kernel >= 5.6 (Alternatively: wireguard-dkms)

Common Installation Steps

1. Enable ip forwarding:

   sysctl -w net.ipv4.ip_forward=1 # IPV4 Support
   sysctl -w net.ipv6.conf.all.forwarding=1  # IPV6 Support
   

2. For persistent configuration:

   cat > /etc/sysctl.d/99-sysctl.conf << EOF
   net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1
   net.ipv6.conf.all.forwarding=1
   EOF
   

3. It is recommended to have a firewall protecting your servers

Notes

• A few people has experienced issues with running the dockerized method using bridged networking. To workaround this, you can use network_mode: host. Note that you can no longer reverse-proxy the web interface from reverse proxies such as jwilder/nginx-proxy.

Method #1: Docker-compose

version: "2.1"
services:
  wireguard:
    container_name: wg-manager
    image: perara/wg-manager
    restart: always
    sysctls:
      net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6: 0  # Required for IPV6
    cap_add:
      - NET_ADMIN
    #network_mode: host # Alternatively
    ports:
       - 51800-51900:51800-51900/udp
       - 8888:8888
    volumes:
      - ./wg-manager:/config
    environment:
      HOST: 0.0.0.0
      PORT: 8888
      ADMIN_PASSWORD: admin
      ADMIN_USERNAME: admin
      WEB_CONCURRENCY: 1

or plain docker here or build docker image from github

Method #2: Bare Metal

• Installation on Debian/Ubuntu/RPI4

Using the development branch

As there is no builds for the development branch, you have to do the following: Change image: perara/wg-manager to

build:
      context: https://github.com/perara/wg-manager.git#dev

Guides

• Importing Existing configuration
• Reverse Proxy

Usage

When docker container/server has started, go to http://localhost:8888

API Docs

The API docs is found here.

API-Keys

1. Login to wg-manager
2. Go to edit profile
3. Create API-Key and take note of the key. Use the X-API-Key header to authenticate.
4. Example: curl -i -H "X-API-Key: <key-goes-here>" http://<host>:<port>/api/v1/users/api-key/list
5. Example 2: curl -X POST "http://<host>:<port>/api/v1/peer/configuration/add" -H "accept: application/json" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "X-API-Key: <api-key-here>" -d "{\"server_interface\":\"wg0\"}"

Client Mode

wg-manager can also run in client-mode, with near-automatic setup and connection. To automatically setup the client, you will need:

1. wg-manager server url
2. name of the interface the client should run on
3. wg-manager server api key

You can setup multiple clients using the numbered environment variables. The following configuration runs a server and client automatically:

version: "2.1"
services:

  server:
    container_name: wg-manager
    build: .
    restart: always
    sysctls:
      net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6: 0
    cap_add:
      - NET_ADMIN
    #network_mode: host # Alternatively
    ports:
      - 11820:11820/udp
      - 51800-51900:51800-51900/udp
      - 8888:8888
    environment:
      HOST: 0.0.0.0
      PORT: 8888
      ADMIN_USERNAME: admin
      ADMIN_PASSWORD: admin
      WEB_CONCURRENCY: 2
      SERVER_INIT_INTERFACE_START: 1

      #endpoint dynamic variables: ||external|| , ||internal||
      SERVER_INIT_INTERFACE: '{"address":"10.0.200.1","v6_address":"fd42:42:42::1","subnet":24,"v6_subnet":64,"interface":"wg0","listen_port":"51820","endpoint":"server","dns":"10.0.200.1,8.8.8.8","private_key":"","public_key":"","post_up":"","post_down":"","configuration":"","is_running":false,"peers":[]}'
      SERVER_STARTUP_API_KEY: thisisasecretkeythatnobodyknows
    networks:
      - wg-manager-net

  client:
    container_name: wg-manager-server-with-client
    build: .
    restart: always
    sysctls:
      net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6: 0
    cap_add:
      - NET_ADMIN
    ports:
      - 8889:8889
    privileged: true
    environment:
      HOST: 0.0.0.0  # Optional (For Accessing WEB-Gui)
      PORT: 8889  # Optional (Web-GUI Listen Port)
      WEB_CONCURRENCY: 1  # Optional
      ADMIN_USERNAME: admin
      ADMIN_PASSWORD: admin
      INIT_SLEEP: 5  # If you run into concurrency issues
      SERVER: 0  # If you want to host a server as well
      CLIENT: 1  # If you want to connect to servers
      CLIENT_START_AUTOMATICALLY: 1  # If you want the client to start automatically
      CLIENT_1_NAME: "client-1"   # Name of first client
      CLIENT_1_SERVER_HOST: "http://server:8888"  # Endpoint of first server
      CLIENT_1_SERVER_INTERFACE: "wg0"  # Interface of first server (to get config)
      CLIENT_1_API_KEY: "thisisasecretkeythatnobodyknows"  # API-Key of first server (to get config)
    networks:
      - wg-manager-net

networks:
  wg-manager-net:
    driver: bridge

Environment variables

Environment	Description	Recommended
GUNICORN_CONF	Location of custom gunicorn configuration	default
WORKERS_PER_CORE	How many concurrent workers should there be per available core (Gunicorn)	default
WEB_CONCURRENCY	The number of worker processes for handling requests. (Gunicorn)	1
HOST	0.0.0.0 or unix:/tmp/gunicorn.sock if reverse proxy. Remember to mount	0.0.0.0
PORT	The port to use if running with IP host bind	80
LOG_LEVEL	Logging level of gunicorn/python	info
ADMIN_USERNAME	Default admin username on database creation	admin
ADMIN_PASSWORD	Default admin password on database creation	admin
POST_UP	The POST_UP Command (version 4)	default
POST_DOWN	The POST_DOWN Command (version 4)	default
POST_UP_V6	The POST_UP Command (version 6)	default
POST_DOWN_V6	The POST_DOWN Command (version 6)	default
INIT_SLEEP	Sleep before bootstrap. Useful for delaying client boot	integer
SERVER_STARTUP_API_KEY	Create a initial, and known API key on server init	secret
SERVER_INIT_INTERFACE	Create a initial wireguard interface on server init. See docs	json
SERVER_INIT_INTERFACE_START	If the interface should start immediately	1 or 0
SERVER	If the container should enable server-mode	1 or 0
CLIENT	If the container should enable client-mode	1 or 0
CLIENT_START_AUTOMATICALLY	If client is enabled. should it start immediately?	1 or 0
CLIENT_X_NAME	Name of the automatically generated client. X = incremental number from 1	string
CLIENT_X_SERVER_HOST	The url to wg-manager server e.g. "http://server:8888" See docs	url
CLIENT_X_SERVER_INTERFACE	The wg-interface to create client on e.g"wg0". See docs	string
CLIENT_X_API_KEY	A valid API-Key that is active on the server. Works well with SERVER_STARTUP_API_KEY	string

Q&A

I'm trying to start the device but recieve the message: Perhaps ip6tables or your kernel needs to be upgraded.. Try: modprobe ip6table_nat on the host.

Showcase

Roadmap

Primaries

• Implement multi-server support (setting up site-2-site servers from the GUI)
• Extending multi-server support to enable custom access lists (A peer can be assigned to multiple servers, as part of the ACL)