Outline VPN: How to install it on your server (Tutorial)

Outline VPN is a new open source VPN that promises an incredibly easy-to-install VPN experience—far easier than existing options, like OpenVPN.
That's great news, as setting up a virtual private network (VPN) on a personal server has never been particularly easy.
In fact, our tutorial on installing OpenVPN is one of our most-read tutorials....
...but keyservers and a dozen configuration files can flummox even experienced sysadmins.
Streisand is much more straightforward to install but forces you to dedicate your entire server to its VPN software—not great for flexibility or getting more value from your existing server.
Outline VPN—created by Jigsaw—is trying to do things a little differently.
What's different about Outline VPN?
Journalists need safe access to information to research issues, communicate with sources, and report the news. Outline makes it easy for news organizations to set up a virtual private network (VPN) on their own server. This gives news organizations the power to provide anyone in their organization safer access to the internet and keep their communications private.
An Outline VPN server is incredibly easy to set up
Thanks to 3 simple facts, it's super-easy to install Outline VPN on your server:
- It uses Docker containers.
- It uses a single command for installation.
- It can be installed concurrently with other apps, web servers, and more.
Prerequisites
- A VPS running any of our OS options
- A working Docker installation
- A non-root,
sudo
-enabled user - A local computer running
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