From Zero to Building My Own WireGuard VPN Server: My Learning Journey

Short summary

An engineering student shares their learning journey building a WireGuard VPN server from scratch on a Debian VM. They cover troubleshooting IP forwarding, NAT, firewall rules, and routing, then compare native deployment with Docker. The project taught Linux system administration, network troubleshooting, and the value of debugging as a learning tool.

• •Built a WireGuard VPN server on a Debian VM to learn real-world networking
• •Troubleshot IP forwarding, NAT, firewall rules, and routing issues
• •Compared native vs Docker deployment and documented everything on GitHub

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