Tag: chef
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The VPN I taught myself to run
My first proper consultancy project, in 2012, was a VPN service called PrivateWiFi. Hundreds of servers provisioned by hand, an API layer being patched live on two boxes at once with no version control, and an authentication path scattered across regions that a single login had to cross oceans to complete. This is the story of how I went from manual deployments to a 5,000-line Perl script to Chef, hired a PHP developer I was not qualified to hire, built extra services on top of the VPN, and finally moved RADIUS onto each server to stop OpenVPN from freezing.