Chaker Benhamed

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TL;DR: You can follow the steps in the Github repo

In a world of privacy violation, VPNs are a must. For a power user setting up a personal VPN is an easy task however for inexperienced users it's not so trivial.

A full setup guide of Open VPN on Linux Ubuntu is also available at Anonymster where they describe each steps so a beginner can sucessfully proceed to the installation

Along this guide I will walk you through setting up your personal vpn using docker. For this you will only need a VPS.

First let's install docker on the VPS, this will heavily depends on the VPS's operating system. check the official Installation documentation for OS specific instruction. After that, verify docker installation with:

docker --version

your version may differ.

Then we need to create a folder in which will be used as volume to the docker configuration container

mkdir ovpn_data 
export OVPN_DATA="ovpn_data"

And now the docker container which will hold all the configuration files

docker run --name $OVPN_DATA -v /etc/openvpn busybox

Then initialize the container with our domain name (or IP address)

docker run --volumes-from $OVPN_DATA --rm kylemanna/openvpn ovpn_genconfig -u udp://chaker.tn
docker run --volumes-from $OVPN_DATA --rm -i kylemanna/openvpn ovpn_initpki

Then you will be asked to enter your a password to generate the certificate

Start the OpenVPN server, generate the certificate and copy it to the working directory

docker run --volumes-from $OVPN_DATA -d -p 1194:1194/udp --cap-add=NET_ADMIN kylemanna/openvpn
docker run --volumes-from $OVPN_DATA --rm -it kylemanna/openvpn easyrsa build-client-full CLIENTNAME nopass
docker run --volumes-from $OVPN_DATA --rm kylemanna/openvpn ovpn_getclient CLIENTNAME > CLIENTNAME.ovpn

You will be asked for your passphrase one more time. After finishing those commands copy the config file to your device (in my case I'm using an android device) and start connecting to your own VPN.