defguard
  • Welcome
  • Getting help
  • About
    • About defguard
    • Features overview
  • Getting started
    • One-line install script
  • Admin Features
    • Overview
    • Zero-Trust VPN with 2FA/MFA
      • Create/manage VPN Location
      • Network overview
      • Executing custom gateway commands
      • Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA/2FA)
        • MFA Architecture
      • Remote desktop client configuration
      • DNS and domains
    • Remote user enrollment
      • User onboarding after enrollment
    • SSO (OpenID Connect)
      • Portainer
      • Grafana setup
      • Proxmox
      • Matrix / Synapse
      • Django
      • MinIO
      • Vault
    • SMTP for email notifications
    • YubiKey Provisioning
    • Webhooks
    • Forward auth
    • SSH Authentication
    • Network devices
    • Activity & Audit logs
    • Gateway notifications
    • New version notifications
  • User features
    • Overwiew
    • Desktop Client
    • CLI Client
    • Configuring VPN
      • Defguard Desktop Client
        • Update instance
      • Other WireGuard® Clients
        • Configuring a device for new VPN Location manually
    • Password change / Reset
    • Enrollment & Onboarding
      • With internal Defguard SSO
      • With external SSO (Google/Microsoft/Custom)
    • Setting up 2FA/MFA
  • Enterprise Features
    • Overview
    • Enteprise features
      • Automatic (real time) desktop client configuration & sync
      • External OpenID providers
        • Google
        • Microsoft
        • Zitadel
        • Keycloak
        • JumpCloud
        • Okta
        • Custom
      • External OIDC secure enrollment
      • VPN & Client behavior customization
      • Access Control List
        • ACL Aliases
        • Implementation Details
      • Audit Log Streaming to SIEM systems
        • Supported SIEM systems integrations
          • Vector integration guide
          • Logstash integration guide
      • LDAP and Active Directory integration
        • Configuration
        • Settings table
        • Two-way LDAP and Active Directory synchronization
      • REST API
  • Deployment strategies
    • Prerequisites
    • Standalone package based installation
    • Docker images and tags
    • Docker Compose
    • Kubernetes
    • Terraform
    • High Availability and Failover
    • Upgrading
    • Pre-production and development releases
    • Gateway
      • Running gateway on MikroTik routers
  • Securing gRPC communication
  • OpenID RSA key
  • Health check
  • Configuration
  • Tutorials
    • Step by step setting up a VPN server
      • Adding additional VPN locations
  • In depth
    • Architecture
      • How do VPN statistics work
      • Security concepts
    • Roadmap
    • Release cycle
  • For Developers
    • Contributing
    • Environment setup
      • Translations (core/web)
        • Switching language
        • Adding translations
      • Translations (client)
        • Adding translations
  • Resources
    • Troubleshooting Guide
      • Sending support information
      • Client Windows installer exit codes
      • Client "All traffic" connection issues
      • WebAuthn security keys
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  1. Deployment strategies

Pre-production and development releases

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To test any pre-production or development release:

One-line install

The simplest way to test the latest development or pre-release version is to use one line installation method with the appropriate argument. More on that in .

Binaries and packages

Each GitHub repository (, , , and ) has its pre-prelease versions available on the GitHub release page. This is where you can download binaries or packages with the pre-release, e.g.:

Docker images

  • pre-release – this tag is for the latest pre-production release - which also contains a version in form of vX.Y.Z-alpha/beta/rcX from the main branch

  • dev – this tag is for the latest development release from the dev branch.

Docker compose

Please change the Docker compose file to match the version or tags as stated above.

Each Docker image for , and has the following tags:

core
gateway
proxy
the one-line install documentation
core
gateway
proxy
client
defguard core example pre-release