Wireguard

I wrote about WireGuard last year. It’s a simple and secure VPN solution that works very well. Since it’s part of the Linux kernel now, settting it up is a breeze. I’m a fan and if I need to deploy a VPN, this is the first solution I would look at. The Register has an article about WireGuard that describes how it got into the kernel. It’s an interesting yarn. Long story short, Linus loves it so it’s in.

I wanted to give Wireguard a try as a VPN solution so I spent a few minutes setting up a server on Hetzner and giving it a go. Long story short, it worked well and was straightforward but technical to set up and configure. First thing was to set up a server on Hetzner. For this, I used the hcloud cli tool. hcloud makes it really easy to set up servers and other stuff from the command line which IMHO is a just easier than clicking-and-clucking through a web GUI.