Configuring Pritunl VPN on Azure Virtual Machine for Home Network Connectivity

# Login to Azure
az login

# Create a resource group
az group create --name myResourceGroup --location eastus

# Create a virtual network
az network vnet create \
  --name myVnet \
  --resource-group myResourceGroup \
  --location eastus \
  --address-prefix 10.0.0.0/16 \
  --subnet-name mySubnet \
  --subnet-prefix 10.0.0.0/24

# Create a public IP address
az network public-ip create \
  --name myPublicIP \
  --resource-group myResourceGroup \
  --location eastus \
  --allocation-method static

# Create a network security group
az network nsg create \
  --name myNSG \
  --resource-group myResourceGroup \
  --location eastus

# Create a network interface
az network nic create \
  --name myNIC \
  --resource-group myResourceGroup \
  --location eastus \
  --subnet mySubnet \
  --vnet-name myVnet \
  --public-ip-address myPublicIP \
  --network-security-group myNSG

# Create a virtual machine
az vm create \
  --name myVM \
  --resource-group myResourceGroup \
  --location eastus \
  --image UbuntuLTS \
  --size Standard_D2s_v3 \
  --admin-username azureuser \
  --generate-ssh-keys \
  --nic myNIC

# Add the Pritunl repository
wget -q https://install.pritunl.com/download/linux/pritunl_1.2.2.111-0_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i pritunl_1.2.2.111-0_amd64.deb

# Start the Pritunl service
sudo systemctl start pritunl
sudo systemctl enable pritunl

# Login to Pritunl
sudo pritunl server configure

# Add a new server
sudo pritunl server add

# Configure the network settings
sudo pritunl settings set \
  --server-name myServer \
  --server-tag myTag \
  --vpn-protocol openvpn \
  --openvpn-port 1194 \
  --openvpn-proto udp \
  --openvpn-cipher aes-256-cbc \
  --openvpn-auth sha1 \
  --dh-file /etc/openvpn/easy-rsa/keys/dh2048.pem \
  --ca-file /etc/openvpn/easy-rsa/keys/ca.crt \
  --server-cert /etc/openvpn/easy-rsa/keys/server.crt \
  --server-key /etc/openvpn/easy-rsa/keys/server.key \
  --tls-auth ta.key \
  --topology subnet \
  --server-bridge 10.0.0.1 255.255.255.0 10.0.0.128 10.0.0.254 \
  --ifconfig-pool-persist ipp.txt \
  --push-route 192.168.1.0 255.255.255.0 \
  --push-dns 8.8.8.8 \
  --push-dns 8.8.4.4 \
  --keepalive 10 120 \
  --cipher AES-256-CBC \
  --user nobody \
  --group nogroup \
  --persist-key \
  --persist-tun \
  --status openvpn-status.log \
  --verb 3

# Generate the client configuration file
sudo pritunl client export myUser --openvpn

# Import the client configuration file into your OpenVPN client