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How I Automated VPN Deployment: A Step-by-Step Guide

DEV Community·Eastern Dev·29 days ago
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Why Automate VPN Deployment? Manual VPN setup takes 2-3 hours per server. With clients needing servers across multiple regions, that is unsustainable. I spent 2 weeks building an automated pipeline. Now I deploy a new VPN server in 5 minutes. The Stack WireGuard - Modern, fast, secure Ansible - Configuration management Cloud-init - Server provisioning Step 1: Infrastructure as Code # wireguard-server.yml - hosts : all become : yes tasks : - name : Install WireGuard apt : name : wireguard state : present Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode Step 2: Auto-Generate Client Configs #!/usr/bin/env python3 import subprocess def create_client ( name ): private = subprocess . check_output ([ " wg " , " genkey " ]). decode (). strip () public = subprocess . check_output ([ " wg " , " pubkey " ], input = private . encode ()). decode ().…

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