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

💡 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

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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.

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.