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How to handle API calls to a server with self signed SSL certificate

By kodjo-kuma djomedaPosted on October 23, 2017October 23, 2017

Hello Guys, Here is another post on a scenario some of you working with telcos, banks and other organizations are familiar with. There is a server somewhere which offers a service usually available over VPN, sometimes not, that you need to connect to. That server has a self signed certificate and you need to deal […]

How to establish a Route Based VPN with Azure VPN (no BGP)

By kodjo-kuma djomedaPosted on September 8, 2017September 8, 2017

Hello Guys, In this tutorial, I will try to show how to create a Azure Managed VPN and use VyOS on AWS to connect to it. Kindly note that there are currently 2 ways of using route based VPN with azure. There is one that uses Border Gateway Protocol and the other one without. Below […]

How to establish a route based VPN connection to AWS Hardware VPN

By kodjo-kuma djomedaPosted on August 29, 2017

Hello Guys, This post is the continuation of our conversation of establishing connection to AWS Hardware VPN. I am certainly not qualified to explain the differences between route based and policy based but I am hoping with these 2 posts it can be clear to you 😀 .For this experiment we are going to create […]

How to establish a policy based VPN connection to AWS Hardware VPN

By kodjo-kuma djomedaPosted on August 28, 2017August 29, 2017

Hello Guys, I wanted to write this article as personal documentation but as well because I wanted to be in most of our partners’ shoes. Most of the time when they want to establish a VPN connection with us and we handover a seemingly complicated AWS VPN generated configuration. In this tutorial we are going […]

Part 3 :: Establishing site-to-site VPN between OpenSwan And VyOS

By kodjo-kuma djomedaPosted on June 22, 2017

Hello Guys Welcome to the final part of our series on establishing a VPN between Azure and AWS using Openswan and VyOS. This is where the real thing happens. I know if you were like me , you would already be itching to dive into the subject ASAP. Your prayers have been answered. Below is […]

Part 2 :: Configuration on Azure: OpenSwan

By kodjo-kuma djomedaPosted on June 22, 2017June 22, 2017

Hello Guys, Welcome to the part 2 of our series on establishing a VPN between Azure and AWS using Openswan and VyOS. In this post, I will be focus on azure side of things. I had to mention that even though azure is nice and easier to use, I have not gotten extensive experience with […]

Part 1 :: Configuration on AWS: VyOS

By kodjo-kuma djomedaPosted on June 22, 2017June 22, 2017

Hello Guys, This is the first part of our tutorial which aims at establishing a VPN between Azure and AWS using Openswan and VyOS. In this tutorial we will only focus on AWS side of things. I will also assume that you have a fair idea of what AWS is and what it offers therefore […]

Connect Azure to AWS with a VPN using openswan and vyos

By kodjo-kuma djomedaPosted on June 22, 2017June 22, 2017

Hello Guys, Today, I would like to experiment with VyOS. I have been using OpenSwan for quite sometime and I really like how simple it is to use. However, it seems it has not been updated in a while and it’s repository replaced by StrongSwan. StrongSwan is still maintained and in my opinion the most […]

How to do a mutual ssl authentication at reverse proxy level

By kodjo-kuma djomedaPosted on September 19, 2016September 20, 2016

Hello Guys, In this tutorial we are going to implement 2 way or mutual ssl authentication. I would love to keep this post short and straight to the point so it assumes that you understand what SSL is for and what we are aiming for. But in every day english it means 2 parties authenticating […]

Python script to start or stop amazon ec2 instance and notify slack channel

By kodjo-kuma djomedaPosted on January 16, 2016January 16, 2016

Hello Guys, Happy New Year to you all. This is my first post in 2016 and I would love to share something useful for those who play around with AWS EC2 instances. Let’s get started with the prerequisites. Prerequisites Before you start, I would love to warn you about python and its discipline around indentation. […]