How to set up Wireguard on VPS (using Docker)

Mateusz (6vz) — Tue, 01 Feb 2022 08:32:42 +0000

Introduction

You can very easily set up a Wireguard server, using docker (for docker-compose accuracy) on your Linux server. This option may also work on Windows, however I am not testing it

Requirements

Linux Server (with root access)
Ability to open ports
docker & docker-compose installed

Before you start...

Please open ports 51820 (UDP), otherwise it won't work

Installation process

Enter these two commands, they will create required directories

mkdir -p ~/wireguard/
mkdir -p ~/wireguard/config/

Run nano ~/wireguard/docker-compose.yml and paste below-mentioned content into the docker-compose.yml file

version: '3.8'
services:
  wireguard:
    container_name: wireguard
    image: linuxserver/wireguard
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - TZ=Europe/Warsaw
      - SERVERURL=00.00.00.00
      - SERVERPORT=51820
      - PEERS=10
      - PEERDNS=auto
      - INTERNAL_SUBNET=10.0.0.0
    ports:
      - 51820:51820/udp
    volumes:
      - type: bind
        source: ./config/
        target: /config/
      - type: bind
        source: /lib/modules
        target: /lib/modules
    restart: always
    cap_add:
      - NET_ADMIN
      - SYS_MODULE
    sysctls:
      - net.ipv4.conf.all.src_valid_mark=1

Fill this config:

TZ is a Timezone - Get yours from TZ Database in Wikipedia
SERVERURL is your server IP
PEERS are basically configs, if you want 10 configs, just type 10, and peers will generate automaticly

Hit CTRL + X and then Y then ENTER to save the file

To run Wireguard enter these two commands:
cd ~/wireguard/
docker-compose up -d

Enter docker-compose logs -f wireguard - There should be QR codes, with connection profiles
Or go to ~/wireguard/config/ to see .conf files for every peer.

Enjoy your fresh & private VPN

DEV Community: Mateusz (6vz)

How to set up Wireguard on VPS (using Docker)

Introduction

Requirements

Before you start...

Installation process