Use netbird as a IdP

[Aalivexy]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Local user management is a very useful feature for individuals or small teams, and I'm pleased to see that netbird has added this feature, especially since it can configure multiple identity providers simultaneously. For internal environments, our own systems certainly need an identity provider, and it would be ideal to reuse netbird's dex, given its already robust implementation.

Describe the solution you'd like
I hope Netbird can provide a way to access its built-in identity provider, giving apps within the Netbird network a unified identity.

Describe alternatives you've considered
Operate an independent identity provider and use it as the sole source of identity for Netbird. I don't think this approach offers any advantage in terms of performance or resource usage.

Additional context

[elyashivhazan]

I'm not a dev or in any way related to netbird but I think having this as feature will just be more complex and not related to what netbird is used for, a simple solution is to use Authentik or something else for small teams that way the devs won't need to allocate more resources on that feature

Just a thought

[Aalivexy]

I'm not a dev or in any way related to netbird but I think having this as feature will just be more complex and not related to what netbird is used for, a simple solution is to use Authentik or something else for small teams that way the devs won't need to allocate more resources on that feature

Just a thought

I understand what you mean. The reason I said that is because NetBird already has a built-in IdP. If we want to use it to provide identity services for other applications, we would only need to expose an interface for registering OAuth2 applications. Everything else is already in place and supported by Dex. In fact, the current dashboard and netbird-cli are already using it. We might not even need a web interface to manage this — simply loading a configuration file could be sufficient.

That said, I also agree that this is not NetBird’s original purpose. However, for self-hosted setups, it is indeed an attractive option.