Networking · 2021
Standing up an OpenVPN server on cloud infrastructure instead of local hardware. I'd built VPNs before on a Raspberry Pi and on local VMs, and doing it in the cloud turned out to be the cleaner path by a good margin.
An article on leveraging the cloud and its services, infrastructure as a service in particular, got me curious. I'd already set up VPN servers the local way, PiVPN on a Raspberry Pi and on VMs, so this was about trying the same goal on cloud infrastructure and seeing how it compared.
The honest surprise was how much easier the cloud approach was than building it locally. No hardware to prepare, no local networking to fight, just a node spun up and configured. It was my first real hands-on with cloud infrastructure as a service, and it made the case for why so much moved to the cloud in the first place.