Originally this project was a commercial VPN service for Russian segment of Internet. Several years later when I got tired of endless support, I've decided to close my business and release the project to the opensource.

You can find some information about it at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9791633.

All documentation is located in this repository: https://github.com/Mehonoshin/smartvpn-docs

VPN node configuration is located in the following repo.

1. Clone repo git clone git@github.com:Mehonoshin/smartvpn-billing.git
2. cd smartvpn-billing
3. cp config/database.yml.sample config/database.yml and enter the username and password for access to your database.
4. cp .env.sample .env
5. The file .env contains all the env variables used in the application.
6. bundle install
7. rake db:setup
8. rails server

1. Clone repo git clone git@github.com:Mehonoshin/smartvpn-billing.git
2. cd smartvpn-billing
3. docker-compose -f docker-compose.development.yml build
4. docker-compose -f docker-compose.development.yml up
5. Copy your SECRET_TOKEN to .env
6. Go to http://lvh.me:3000

How to run usual RoR command into docker

1. docker-compose -f docker-compose.development.yml up
2. docker-compose exec app bash - connect to running container as named app
3. RAILS_ENV=test ./bin/rake db:setup - setup test database
4. ./bin/rails console - run rails console
5. RAILS_ENV=test bundle exec rspec spec - start rspec tests

How it works :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFRKPO5LHDg

For this type of installation we assume that you already have a VPS for billing with root access. Also you should have docker and docker-compose installed on your machine.

For a successful project launch you also need to specify a list of environment variables on VPS, that will be ingested inside docker container. Keep in mind, that these variables should be available each time you start/restart containers, so it is a good idea to keep them in .bashrc.

export SECRET_TOKEN=some_super_secret_value

Now you are ready to launch docker-compose. Feel free to copy it from repo directly to your VPS.

docker-compose up -d

Now the billing is ready and you can try to access it:

• Visit http://vps_ip/admins/sign_in
• Sign in with email admin@smartvpn.biz and password password

To accept the first users you need at least one tariff plan, that can be added at http://vps_ip/admin/plans.

The docker image is built automatically on every merge to master. You can always pull the latest version of the image from Docker Hub.

docker pull mexx/smartvpn-billing

For more information about the builds visit docker hub page mexx/smartvpn-billing

• Document the list of ENV variables required for production
• Add simple nginx to proxy requests to the app
• Create VPN node image
• Add instructions how to run vpn on Digital Ocean