gurgui/ovpn repository overview

⁠OpenVPN Alpine container

Container repo can be found at DockerHub⁠

⁠How to use

A docker volume/local mountpoint must be mounted into /etc/openvpn/config containing 1 or more OpenVPN server configuration files - server config template⁠. However, as long as you don't set CREATE_TEST_PKI to false, you don't need to create/bring your own config file since it will be created on first run using gpkih⁠.

• Create a volume

docker volume create ovpn

• Create a container, PKI will be created upon first run

docker run --name ovpn \
    -it \
    -v ovpn:/etc/openvpn/config \
    --privileged \
    -p 1194:1194/udp \
    -e MAX_VPN_INSTANCES=1 \
    gurgui/ovpn:latest

The default profile generated with gpkih will also generate a client inline configuration which can be found at /root/test/packs/CL/inline_CL.conf.

The only thing left to do is change the client remote with the server's IP and PORT (you can also leave this to the container by setting the env variable VPN_CLIENT_REMOTE with the desired value, e.g "10.10.10.10 1194") and you'll have a ready-to-use client file. Import it in your OpenVPN Connect Client⁠ and securely connect to the server.

⁠Environment variables

⁠Notes

I don't know yet why using --cap-add=NET_ADMIN and avoiding --privileged keeps giving me a permission error(1) when trying to run the openvpn --config <server.conf> as root within the container