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

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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 ().…