🤫 VPN

Easy way to up your virtual private network.

💡 Idea

Nothing special, just to find a way to set up and run a personal VPN quickly.

🏆 Motivation

Internet censorship has been increasing steadily for the last decade. Needs more? 10 reasons why you need a VPN.

🤼‍♂️ How to

$ export VPN_NAME=gateway   # your server name, any way you like
$ export VPN_HOST=127.0.0.1 # your server ip

$ cat ansible/hosts.tpl.ini \
  | sed "s/{{.Name}}/${VPN_NAME}/g" \
  | sed "s/{{.Host}}/${VPN_HOST}/g" \
  > ansible/hosts

$ make

Recommended providers

Provider	Availability	IPv6	Price
DigitalOcean	worldwide	✓	$5/month
Linode	worldwide	✓	$5/month
Vultr	worldwide	✓	$2.5/month

☝️ all links are referral

🧩 Installation

$ git clone git@github.com:octomation/vpn.git && cd vpn

👨‍🔬 Research

Articles

At DigitalOcean

• How To Set Up and Configure a Certificate Authority (CA) On Ubuntu 20.04.
• How To Set Up and Configure an OpenVPN Server on Ubuntu 20.04.

At Serverwise

• How To Install OpenVPN On Ubuntu 18.04
• Outline VPN: How to install it on your server.
• Streisand VPN: How To Install And Configure.

Sources

• Jigsaw-Code/outline-server
  • install_server.sh
• angristan/openvpn-install
• angristan/wireguard-install
• kylemanna/docker-openvpn
• Nyr/openvpn-install
• Nyr/wireguard-install
• StreisandEffect/streisand
• timurb/ansible-digitalocean-vpn

Toolset

• Ansible is Simple IT Automation.
  • Ansible at GitHub.
• Empowering App Development for Developers | Docker.
  • Docker at GitHub.
• Outline VPN - Access to the free and open internet.
  • Outline at GitHub.
• Docker images
  • containrrr/watchtower at Docker Hub.
  • outline/shadowbox at Quay.io.

Upcoming

• VPN Software Solutions & Services For Business | OpenVPN.
  • OpenVPN at GitHub.
  • Tunnelblick | Free open source OpenVPN VPN client server software for macOS.
• WireGuard: fast, modern, secure VPN tunnel.
  • WireGuard at GitHub.
• Best VPN Service for Secure Networks - Tailscale.
  • Tailscale at GitHub.
• SoftEther VPN Project.
  • SoftEther VPN at GitHub.
• Vagrant by HashiCorp.
  • Vagrant at GitHub.

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