Wireguard VPN

Easy setup of Wireguard VPN server using docker engine

Do you need Wireguard VPN for your private use? A lot of documentations provides different options to setup Wireguard VPN, this one should be easy to get it running in minutes!

Information related to Wireguard VPN you can find at official website - https://www.wireguard.com/

Requirements:

linux host with recent kernel 5.x
wireguard module installed using

sudo apt install wireguard-tools

installed docker engine

Setup

manual run

docker run --rm \
  --cap-add sys_module \
  --cap-add net_admin \
	-e PUBLIC_IP=1.2.3.4 \
	-e PORT=55555 \
	-e DNS=8.8.8.8 \
	-e SUBNET=10.88 \
	-e SUBNET_PREFIX=16 \
	-e SUBNET_IP=10.88.0.1/16 \
  -p 55555:55555/udp denisix/wireguard

sample docker-compose.yml file in case you want to run using docker-compose tool:

version: "3"
services:

  wireguard:
    image: denisix/wireguard
    environment:
      - PUBLIC_IP=1.2.3.4
      - PORT=55555
      - DNS=8.8.8.8
			- SUBNET=10.88
			- SUBNET_PREFIX=16
			- SUBNET_IP=10.88.0.1/16
    volumes:
      - ./wireguard/:/etc/wireguard/
    ports:
      - 55555:55555/udp
    cap_add:
      - SYS_MODULE
      - NET_ADMIN
    restart: unless-stopped

and after startup

docker-compose up -d wireguard

you will find QR code to setup your mobile client in the docker container logs:

docker-compose logs wireguard

as well as simple copy-paste instructions to setup your Ubuntu desktop as wireguard VPN client :)

adding new client peer is easy:

docker-compose exec wireguard addclient client1

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Wireguard VPN

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