Will start a VPN server for you in the AWS cloud.
If you want the privacy of VPN, but do not want to pay for either keeping up an instance 24/7 or pay for a VPN subscription, this has got you covered. Most likely you use the internet in a regular fashion most of the time, but have some things you want to do with some added privacy.
- An AWS account.
- Credentials that has access to creating EC2 instances saved in
~/.aws/credentials, or specified as config options (see the "Configuration" section). - Probably some idea on how you would use a ovpn file to open a new VPN connection.
Copy the default.config.json file to a file named config.json. In this file you will find the following options:
An ID of a subnet to launch the instance in. If you are using small instances (for example the t2-micro) this is required.
A name of a key pair stored in AWS. Use this if you want to be able to connect to the instance to do some kind of debugging.
Digital Ocean userData script was very helpful in scripting the OpenVPN setup.
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