VPN-HELPER

A small container that will help you access services located on remote VPN clients. The main idea of this repository is to forward ports from VPN network clients to the network of the container itself, as a result of which users access the container ports directly without going into details of the VPN server and client network device, which allows you to directly open ports to the host or use it in conjunction with proxy servers (such as NGINX Reverse Proxy, Caddy, etc.).

Configuring

• Replace docker network name with your VPN server network, including changing the environment variable $VPN_HELPER_VPN_SERVER_NETWORK, as an example, a network named vpn_net is used. Also set the name of the container in which we will launch the VPN server, as an example, openvpn is used.

  services:
    vpn-helper:
      environment:
        - VPN_HELPER_VPN_DOCKER_NETWORK_NAME=openvpn.vpn_net
      networks:
        - vpn_net
  
  networks:
    vpn_net:
      external: true
  

• Specify the subnet of the VPN server in the environment variables $VPN_HELPER_VPN_SERVER_NETWORK, by default 192.168.255.0/24

  VPN_HELPER_VPN_SERVER_NETWORK=192.168.255.0/24
  

• Specify your port forwarding rules in the environment variable $VPN_HELPER_FORWARDING_RULES, the rules look like 8082:192.168.255.2:8081, where:

  • 8082 - destination port;
  • 192.168.255.2 - IP address of the VPN client where the remote service is located;
  • 8081 - port the remote service is listening on.

  You can specify several rules at once, for example:

  VPN_HELPER_FORWARDING_RULES=
    8082:192.168.255.2:8081
    8083:192.168.255.2:8082
  

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