simple-openvpn-server VS openvpn-install

Another option can be openvpn, https://github.com/theonemule/simple-openvpn-server.

its amazing and you don't need to be a expert to use it.

Say I want to setup a VPN between 5 computers. I would need one server that "hosts" the VPN and configuration files for each of the 5 computers. The purpose of the VPN is purely to allow the 5 computers to securely communicate. It does not provide routing to the internet via the VPN. I could probably use something like https://github.com/theonemule/simple-openvpn-server on the cheapest VPS I could find and it would have no problems.

From a technical perspective just go with whichever suits you better - if you have the tech skills to set it up yourself that's probably cheaper. If not, or you don't have time, go with a provider. For a very simple DIY VPN, https://github.com/theonemule/simple-openvpn-server is pretty easy to setup!

Another VPN option is https://github.com/theonemule/simple-openvpn-server - It's open source, all you need is a VPS then run the install script. Once it's finished, you can create clients and download the openvpn config file for them from the web interface.

https://github.com/angristan/openvpn-install or if you want to be free from your distro's OpenSSL version: https://github.com/ix-ai/openvpn (recommended, just rebuild the container if it becomes outdated)

Buy your own cloud server and run https://github.com/angristan/openvpn-install to make it TCP over 443

Hey! I set up an OpenVPN Server on an Ubuntu Server VM inside ESXi 6.7 using this script: https://github.com/angristan/openvpn-install I need to access the local services running on the, e.g. 192.168.xxx.xxx, which works just fine. But I dont want all my network traffic being routed through the VPN Server. So if i reach out to 192.168.xxx.xxx I get the Service running on this IP in the local network where the server is in, but if I try to reach e.g. google.com the request does not get routed through the VPN. How can I achieve this? OpenVPN-Host: Ubuntu Server 22.04.3 LTS | OpenVPN 2.5.5 Connecting Client: EndeavourOS | OpenVPN 2.6.6

EDIT: I should add that the setup was done with angristan's OpenVPN installer. There's nothing particularly interesting about the conf files.

Very good, does it support https://github.com/angristan/openvpn-install ?

Pretty trivial actually. I set up my server on a VPS with https://github.com/angristan/openvpn-install, it generates the configs that I deployed to my devices, and when connected they can see each other. For resolving the domain name you'd need to set up the DNS during the wizard.