Role Description

Sets up an instance with strongswan VPN and sends an email with the public IP and public cert for ipsec.

Role Variables

    username: SOME_USERNAME
    password: SOME_PASSWORD
    email.address: MYEMAIL@SOMEDOMAIN.COM

Example Playbook

- hosts: servers
  roles:
    - strongswan
  vars:
    username: john
    password: password
    email:
      address: something@someplace.com

Vagrant

Using vagrant you can quickly bring your own personal vpn instance in AWS

requires ansible, vagrant, and the vagrant-aws plugin

To bring up a strongswan vpn instance in aws simply:

• Clone this repo
• Add your keypair, security group, and subnet id to the vagrantfile
• Set Role vars
• Vagrant up
• Vagrant provision

Usage

To use with macOS:

• Open the email send by ansible (probably in spam)
• Import the attached cert to you keychain
• In keychain double click the cert and set IPsec trust to Always Trust
• Create a new VPN (IKEv2)
• Put the public ip from the email in the "Server Address and "Remote ID" Fields
• Set Authentication Settings to "Username" and put it the username and password you set in your vars
• Save settings and connect

License

BSD