PiVPN in Docker Container

Setting up an VPN server is easy, but we can make it even easier and you can do it within 1 min. All the prerequisite is just the docker which has been compatible with the Raspberry Pi for a while. If you don't have the docker installed on your little machine, go and check it out here.

Build

Docker Images

Supported Architectures

• x86_64/amd64
• armv7hf (Raspberry Pi 2 and 3)

Usage

1. Launch PiVPN on a machine, which would be the PiVPN server.

   docker run -ti --rm \
        --privileged \
        -p 443:443/udp \
        -v "$HOME"/ovpns:/home/pivpn/ovpns \
        ljishen/pivpn
   

   Wait until you see PiVPN Service Started

2. Copy the client ovpn profile under "$HOME"/ovpns to the machine/device from where you want to connect to the PiVPN server. The name of the client profile is client.ovpn by default.

3. Install the OpenVPN application on the client. On Debian OS, it would be as easy as

   sudo apt-get install openvpn
   

   Then you can start the VPN client using

   sudo openvpn --auth-nocache --config client.ovpn
   

   The default Private Key Password is vpnpasswd and you can change it in the configuration file setupVars.conf.

4. In case you have any connection problems, try to modify the variables in file setupVars.conf before restarting the PiVPN server using the same command from step 1. You can also create an issue and let me know if I can help you.

Credit

• PiVPN

Miscellaneous

Commands to Create the Docker Image Manifest

docker manifest create ljishen/pivpn ljishen/pivpn:amd64 ljishen/pivpn:armv7hf
docker manifest annotate ljishen/pivpn ljishen/pivpn:armv7hf --os linux --arch arm --variant v7
docker manifest annotate ljishen/pivpn ljishen/pivpn:amd64 --os linux --arch amd64

# purge the local manifest after push so that I can
# upgrade the manifest by creating a new one next time.
# https://github.com/docker/for-win/issues/1770
docker manifest push --purge ljishen/pivpn