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Portainervssetup-ipsec-vpn

Two self-hosted projects, compared on the numbers selfhost.directory tracks live: score, popularity, release cadence and setup effort.

Portainersetup-ipsec-vpn
Score77/10078/100
Rank in category#1 of 44 in Container Management#3 of 56 in VPN
GitHub stars38 73728 882
Stars, last 30 days+188+325
Stable releases, 12 months210
Latest release2.45.3 · 21 Oct 2026—
SetupEasyEasy
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseZlibOther
Main languageTypescriptShell

Which one should you pick?

setup-ipsec-vpn scores 78/100 against 77/100 for Portainer, so it is the safer default.

Portainer ships more often: 21 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for setup-ipsec-vpn.

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