OpenVPN

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OpenVPN

Purpose: Legacy, highly configurable VPN standard. Use when you need specific cipher suites, client certificate management, or compatibility with older devices.

# ~/openvpn/compose.yaml
services:
  openvpn:
    image: kylemanna/openvpn
    ports:
      - 0.0.0.0:1194:1194/udp
    volumes:
      - /home/user/openvpn:/etc/openvpn:Z
    cap_add:
      - NET_ADMIN
      - SYS_MODULE
    sysctls:
      net.ipv4.ip_forward: 1
    restart: unless-stopped

cd ~/openvpn && podman-compose up -d

See Also

• Networking — all networking docs