Introduction
We’re going to cover setting up a Wireguard VPN on your home server or cloud service. For secure remote access to your internal network, or a cheap, secure connection to a cloud service for some increased privacy when browsing online.
VPN’s don’t make you anonymous, there’s a lot of stigma around this. Here’s some helpful information if you want to read into this some more.
Setting up Wireguard, the easy way
I initially found setting up Wireguard confusing. Keys kept getting mixed up, I had no way of sending public keys between devices so that I could set up a client on my mobile device etc..
After around 30 seconds of lazy Duck Duck Go’ing (Not quite the same ring to it). I found a script on Github provided by angristan. Here’s the repo.
It’s just a bash script which does all of the config for you, but still providing user prompts for entering the public server IP and choosing a preferred DNS address for the server.
Step 1: Clone and execute the Wireguard Installer
After ssh’ing to your server, whether it’s local, or cloud-hosted, we need to pull down the Wireguard installer code from Github. We’re just going to curl…
