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terraform-aws-wireguard

A Terraform module to deploy a WireGuard VPN server on AWS. Can also used to run one or more servers behind a loadbalancer, for redundancy.

Prerequisites

Before using this module, you'll need to generate a key pair for your server and client, and store the server's private key and client's public key in AWS SSM, which cloud-init will source and add to WireGuard's configuration.

  • Install the WireGuard tools for your OS: https://www.wireguard.com/install/
  • Generate a key pair for each client
    • wg genkey | tee client1-privatekey | wg pubkey > client1-publickey
  • Generate a key pair for the server
    • wg genkey | tee server-privatekey | wg pubkey > server-publickey
  • Add the server private key to the AWS SSM parameter: /wireguard/wg-server-private-key
    • aws ssm put-parameter --name /wireguard/wg-server-private-key --type SecureString --value $ServerPrivateKeyValue
  • Add each client's public key, along with the next available IP address to the wg_clients list. See Usage for details.

Variables

Variable Name Type Required Description
subnet_ids list Yes A list of subnets for the Autoscaling Group to use for launching instances. May be a single subnet, but it must be an element in a list.
ssh_key_id string Yes A SSH public key ID to add to the VPN instance.
vpc_id string Yes The VPC ID in which Terraform will launch the resources.
env string Optional - defaults to prod The name of environment for WireGuard. Used to differentiate multiple deployments.
use_eip bool Optional Whether to attach an Elastic IP address to the VPN server. Useful for avoiding changing IPs.
eip_id string Optional When use_eip is enabled, specify the ID of the Elastic IP to which the VPN server will attach.
target_group_arns string Optional The Loadbalancer Target Group to which the vpn server ASG will attach.
additional_security_group_ids list Optional Used to allow added access to reach the WG servers or allow loadbalancer health checks.
asg_min_size integer Optional - default to 1 Number of VPN servers to permit minimum, only makes sense in loadbalanced scenario.
asg_desired_capacity integer Optional - default to 1 Number of VPN servers to maintain, only makes sense in loadbalanced scenario.
asg_max_size integer Optional - default to 1 Number of VPN servers to permit maximum, only makes sense in loadbalanced scenario.
instance_type string Optional - defaults to t2.micro Instance Size of VPN server.
wg_server_net cidr address and netmask Yes The server ip allocation and net - wg_clients entries MUST be in this netmask range.
wg_clients list Yes List of client objects with IP and public key. See Usage for details. See Examples for formatting.
wg_server_port integer Optional - defaults to 51820 Port to run wireguard service on, wireguard standard is 51820.
wg_persistent_keepalive integer Optional - defaults to 25 Regularity of Keepalives, useful for NAT stability.
wg_server_private_key_param string Optional - defaults to /wireguard/wg-server-private-key The Parameter Store key to use for the VPN server Private Key.
ami_id string Optional - defaults to null AMI to use for the VPN server. Determined automatically if not specified.
ami_prefix string Optional - defaults to ubuntu/images/hvm-ssd/ubuntu Prefix to look for in AMI name when automatically choosing an image.
ami_release string Optional - defaults to focal-20.04 OS release to look for in AMI name when automatically choosing an image.
ami_arch string Optional - defaults to amd64 Architecture to look for in AMI name when automatically choosing an image. Ensure this is appropriate for your chosen instance_type.
ami_owner_id string Optional - defaults to 099720109477 (amazon) Look for an AMI with this owner account ID when automatically choosing an image.
wg_server_interface string Optional - defaults to eth0 Server interface to route traffic to for installations forwarding traffic to private networks.

Examples

Please see the following examples to understand usage with the relevant options.

Simple Elastic IP/public subnet usage

See examples/simple_eip/main.tf file.

Complex Elastic Load Balancer/private subnet usage

See examples/complex_elb/main.tf file.

Outputs

Output Name Description
vpn_asg_name The name of the wireguard Auto Scaling Group
vpn_sg_admin_id ID of the internal Security Group to associate with other resources needing to be accessed on VPN.
vpn_sg_external_id ID of the external Security Group to associate with the VPN.

Caveats

  • I would strongly recommend forking this repo or cloning it locally and change the source definition to be something that you control. You really don't want your infra to be at the mercy of my changes.

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