Stunnel + OpenVPN Server on Ubuntu 16.04

My documented journey as I go through the entire process of setting up Stunnel + OpenVPN on Ubuntu 16.04.

Pre-requisites

The article assumes you already have a Ubuntu 16.04 machine setup somewhere. This can either be on AWS, DigitalOcean, Linode, Aliyun or any other locations. Here are is the list of articles on how I setup the server with the different cloud providers.

• AWS
• DigitalOcean
• Linode
• Aliyun
• Azure

Before you read-on, currently, I haven’t found a way to get this to work on iOS. So if anyone knows how to setup a Client on iOS that uses Stunnel and OpenVPN, please share!

Incase you are interested in using Ubuntu 18.04 instead, I’ve also documented my process here.

Stunnel + OpenVPN Server on Ubuntu 18.04

Installing required software

We will be installing these applications. OpenVPN, Stunnel and Easy-RSA.

$ sudo apt-get install openvpn…