Quick VPN Setup with AWS Lightsail and WireGuard

Re:Quick VPN Setup with AWS Lightsail and WireGuard by Nux on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @06:39PM (#36234655)

I didn't care about the AWS and zsh aspects of the article, but what vendor lock-in are you talking about and how exactly would an ansible playbook sort it?

All you need is any ubuntu vps - in fact any systemd distro if you ignore the "ufw" commands - and the 50 or so lines following "Wireguard Setup".

It doesn't get more simple than this.

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Re:Quick VPN Setup with AWS Lightsail and WireGuard by hejcloud on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @06:53PM (#36234791)

Well using the aws cli is locking you in to AWS, isn't it? And at least from my experience those "just 50 lines of shell" can get very messy overtime. Eventually, if you add more features (pretty much every project gets more features over time), you will refactor once or twice and end up rewriting it in Python, make it more declarative because it's easier to test and tada, you just reinvented Ansible yourself. I think this question is legit.

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Re:Quick VPN Setup with AWS Lightsail and WireGuard by Nux on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @07:01PM (#36234874)

Question is not legit. Refactor what? Did you guys actually read the article?

Just copy/paste them commands in any linux vps. You don't need aws, at least lightsail is cheap. Ionos (1&1) is cheaper.

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