Install OpenVPN server using Ansible over AWS VPC

In this tutorial, we’ll use this blog post as a base and use the below scenario in which we’ll configure the custom NAT instance to OpenVPN as well using Ansible to access the resources inside the private subnet(s).

Please modify the following things for the above mentioned post:

– Open the UDP port 1194 inside the NAT instance Security Group

– Allow the desired traffic inside the desired desination server(s) Security Group for NAT instance

OpenVPN Server Setup on Mikrotik RouterOS

In this post, I’ll describe the step by step procedure to setup Mikrotik RouterOS as OpenVPN server. I’ll use the Ubuntu Server in order to create CA, server and client(s) certificates.

OpenVPN server on CentOS 6.4 behind NAT

This tutorial describes that how to configure the OpenVPN Server in CentOS 6.4 and clients in Windows XP/7.

I am taking the scenario of SOHO network, which is protected by Firewall, we’ll implement the OpenVPN on internal CentOS 6.4 server to access the internal SOHO network (Server and PCs) through the internet from anywhere securely.

OpenVPN Client Configuration on Ubuntu 12.04

To use the Ubuntu as OpenVPN client, install these packages:

sudo apt-get install network-manager-openvpn

OpenVPN server on Ubuntu 12.04 behind NAT

This tutorial describes that how to configure the OpenVPN Server in Ubuntu and clients in Windows XP/7.

I am taking the scenario of SOHO network, which is protected by Firewall, we’ll implement the OpenVPN on internal Ubuntu server to access the internal SOHO network (Server and PCs) through the internet from anywhere securely.

OpenVPN Server Installation:

Install the openvpn package using the following command:

 sudo apt-get install openvpn

On Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, please use the following command to install the openvpn package:

sudo apt-get install openvpn easy-rsa