awsovpn

Manage an OpenVPN instance in your private EC2 cloud using this script.

Usage

1. Create and configure an OpenVPN EC2 instance in region us-east-1 .

   awsovpn --region us-east-1 up

   Then following instructions to configure a Profile and install in your local OpenVPN client.

2. Terminate the OpenVPN EC2 instance and remove all EC2 resources mangaed by this script:

   awsovpn down

Install

python -m pip install awsovpn

Configure

Configure using any of combination of the following methods:

1. awscli configuration

   If you have awscli installed and configured, then awsovpn can utilize this same configuration. Just use --profile PROFILE to specify an AWS configuration profile.

   awsovpn --profile myprofile up

2. environment variables

   Create a .env file or set the following environment variables:

   AWS_REGION=
   AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=
   AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=
   AWS_PROFILE=
   

3. use arguments

   You can also pass credential configuration as arguments:

   e.g.

   awsovpn --region REGION --access-key-id ACCESS_KEY_ID --secret-access-key SECRET_ACCESS_KEY