Secure client access has simplified cloud migrations and now enables fast remote connectivity
What is our primary use case?
Our main use case for OpenVPN Community Edition - powered by TurnKey is to ensure secure access for our end customer during multiple migration opportunities. During the foundation readiness, we have to make sure that the customer environment will be securely accessed and to let our end customer access the migrated machines which have been recently migrated from on-premise to the public cloud in a secure manner. To let them communicate securely, we are using OpenVPN Community Edition - powered by TurnKey deployed in our foundation readiness to let them communicate securely.
With OpenVPN Community Edition - powered by TurnKey, we have been able to simplify our client VPN communication with the migrated resources from on-premise data center to the public cloud. It is really efficient, quick, and secure way to let our end-user, customer user, or our operations team users communicate to deployed workload in the public cloud environment.
We are using OpenVPN Community Edition - powered by TurnKey mainly for letting our roaming users communicate to the public cloud tenant resources securely.
What is most valuable?
The best features that OpenVPN Community Edition - powered by TurnKey offers are that it is really quick and efficient to let the client VPN connectivity enabled.
The client VPN connectivity is efficient for my team because it is really quick. All you need is one lightweight configuration server to be hosted in the public cloud environment. Once that is deployed, it allows your clients and vendors to communicate to the public cloud environment resources securely.
It is really secure because security is the primary perspective. Since we want our deployed resources in the public cloud to be securely accessed, OpenVPN Community Edition - powered by TurnKey is the best way around to let those communications happen in a client VPN manner.
OpenVPN Community Edition - powered by TurnKey has positively impacted my organization because it is really efficient. During the foundation readiness, we ensure that once workload gets migrated to the public clouds, whoever needs access to public cloud deployed resources has secure access. OpenVPN Community Edition - powered by TurnKey came with a vital role to make sure that the deployed resources in the public cloud will be securely accessed.
I would say it has remarkably reduced our effort while looking at any third-party solution, making it really time-efficient and effective. It is not a time-consuming activity.
What needs improvement?
All we are looking forward to is to know the configuration we have to follow if an N number of concurrent connections is required. For example, if it could have been 20 or 30, then what should be the OpenVPN Community Edition - powered by TurnKey server configuration. We need this recommendation to be available to us.
The documentation from OpenVPN Community Edition - powered by TurnKey is absolutely good and does not require any changes. My only recommendation is that the configuration with the desired capacity of the number of users who intend to access the cloud tenant resources via OpenVPN Community Edition - powered by TurnKey should be given in their forum.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using OpenVPN Community Edition - powered by TurnKey for almost four years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
OpenVPN Community Edition - powered by TurnKey is absolutely stable. With the configuration recommendation given by OpenVPN Community Edition - powered by TurnKey, if you follow it, it is really scalable and redundant.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
I do not see any challenge with the configuration in the public forum of OpenVPN Community Edition - powered by TurnKey. If one follows it, they will never face any challenge with scalability. No matter the number of concurrent connections that need to be made, if one follows those recommendations of compute and memory configuration for OpenVPN Community Edition - powered by TurnKey server deployment, it is really quick and efficient.
How are customer service and support?
I rate customer support for OpenVPN Community Edition - powered by TurnKey a 10 out of 10.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I was using Pritunl prior to OpenVPN Community Edition - powered by TurnKey.
I was evaluating Pritunl VPN solution prior to OpenVPN Community Edition - powered by TurnKey.
How was the initial setup?
I purchased OpenVPN Community Edition - powered by TurnKey through the AWS Marketplace.
What about the implementation team?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that it is really efficient and not on the higher side.
OpenVPN Community Edition - powered by TurnKey has made a remarkable compute saving from the perspective when we need secure communication to connect to the AWS cloud tenant. I would recommend OpenVPN Community Edition - powered by TurnKey as a quick, efficient solution rather than looking forward to any other solution.
What was our ROI?
I choose 10 out of 10 because it is really efficient from the time perspective. It has been able to save us a lot of efforts which we intend to look forward in the next generation firewall deployment because we really do not need one if we have a target requirement of client VPN communication to be enabled.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
I purchased OpenVPN Community Edition - powered by TurnKey through the AWS Marketplace.
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that it is really efficient and not on the higher side.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
I was using Pritunl prior to OpenVPN Community Edition - powered by TurnKey.
I was evaluating Pritunl VPN solution prior to OpenVPN Community Edition - powered by TurnKey.
What other advice do I have?
All we are looking forward to is to know the configuration we have to follow if an N number of concurrent connections is required. For example, if it could have been 20 or 30, then what should be the OpenVPN Community Edition - powered by TurnKey server configuration. We need this recommendation to be available to us.
The documentation from OpenVPN Community Edition - powered by TurnKey is absolutely good and does not require any changes. My only recommendation is that the configuration with the desired capacity of the number of users who intend to access the cloud tenant resources via OpenVPN Community Edition - powered by TurnKey should be given in their forum.
My recommendation for those looking into using OpenVPN Community Edition - powered by TurnKey is to consider it as a secure and effective way to connect public cloud resources, especially for new deployments, migrations, and other related tasks. I recommend OpenVPN Community Edition - powered by TurnKey if you need secure and quick connection.
I really appreciate the position OpenVPN Community Edition - powered by TurnKey holds to let end customers connect to the tenant resources, no matter on-premise or the public cloud, in a secure manner.
I provide this review with an overall rating of 10 out of 10.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Secure cloud migrations have accelerated as our teams access critical workloads remotely
What is our primary use case?
Our main use case for OpenVPN Community Edition - powered by TurnKey is to meet multiple requirements from our end customers where we have migration opportunities. We are building a foundation readiness for all our customers before we kick in any workload migration to the public cloud. Because security is a prime requirement from everyone, instead of looking at next generation firewalls to explicitly come into the picture where customers have been keenly looking forward to security readiness, we are using OpenVPN Community Edition - powered by TurnKey to ensure that all roaming users, client users, or their development teams will be able to securely access the resources being hosted or migrated to the public cloud environment.
A specific example of how I have used OpenVPN Community Edition - powered by TurnKey in one of those customer migration projects is during the migration when we have multiple requirements where customers ask for their development teams to access the environment in parallel with what we have migrated to the public cloud. We are providing secure access so their development teams will be able to access the migrated machines in the public cloud which have recently been migrated from the on-premise data center.
My main use case for OpenVPN Community Edition - powered by TurnKey is really simple and quick. Instead of looking at so many tools related to firewall management, you do not need to care about many things. OpenVPN Community Edition - powered by TurnKey will be able to let you communicate with the public cloud environment. It is the best in class client VPN solution that one can opt for.
What is most valuable?
The best features OpenVPN Community Edition - powered by TurnKey offers include no restrictions in usage. It comes with minimal configuration from the computer side. All I need is a single machine running that will handhold all my client VPN requirements, and that is really quick.
When I say minimal configuration, all you need is their client VPN server to be deployed. Once it is ready, all your clients who need to access the cloud tenant will be able to do so while deploying a lightweight agent in their client systems. That is really quick. No matter what the agent configuration would be, you can make at least 20, 30, or 50 VPN user connections proportionally.
OpenVPN Community Edition - powered by TurnKey has positively impacted my organization during the foundation readiness as we always look forward to shortlisting multiple tools. When we came to know that during migration projects or deployment projects we need our users from the development side to securely access the deployed or migrated resources, I searched for a way to get them access quickly. We came across OpenVPN Community Edition - powered by TurnKey. It is really instant and quick to let them securely connect to the resources running in the public cloud.
This quick and secure access absolutely leads to measurable improvements, such as faster project timelines and increased user satisfaction. During the foundation readiness, we need to look forward to many tools' readiness concerning security and monitoring. While looking at security, OpenVPN Community Edition - powered by TurnKey has measurably reduced our timelines and effectively given secure access to our clients' development resources with quick and efficient service.
What needs improvement?
OpenVPN Community Edition - powered by TurnKey can be improved by looking forward to recommendations regarding compute sizing, which is necessary. I have seen multiple third-party solutions demanding configurations based on compute and memory aspects. However, what I have learned from OpenVPN Community Edition - powered by TurnKey is that it comes with minimal configuration, but I am always stringent about how many client VPN connections it can handle. There has to be some bifurcation regarding this.
I have not experienced any access lag so far or any performance issues. I do not see any problems with the configurations or recommendations provided by OpenVPN Community Edition - powered by TurnKey for 100 or 200 users simultaneously, but I still foresee a need for some recommendations from OpenVPN Community Edition - powered by TurnKey regarding the number of user connections it can handle given certain configurations.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using OpenVPN Community Edition - powered by TurnKey for almost four years in multiple customer projects.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
OpenVPN Community Edition - powered by TurnKey is absolutely stable in my experience with the configurations provided. We are able to ensure around 20 to 25 concurrent connections, and they are stable enough while connecting to the public cloud.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
From the scalability perspective, the recommendations given by OpenVPN Community Edition - powered by TurnKey are absolutely correct. If you want to opt for a certain number of concurrent connections, we always have to look forward to a vertical scaling of OpenVPN Community Edition - powered by TurnKey server. I really appreciate that the configurations provided meet our expectations while looking for concurrent connections.
How are customer service and support?
Customer support for OpenVPN Community Edition - powered by TurnKey is fantastic, though I have needed to reach out to them only sometimes. We always receive the required responses from the support team.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We were not using any solution by TurnKey previously, but we were using something called Pritunl. However, that is not as secure, nor does it follow the required governance. Before choosing OpenVPN Community Edition - powered by TurnKey, we were actually using Pritunl.
How was the initial setup?
We mainly deploy OpenVPN Community Edition - powered by TurnKey for a public cloud.
For deploying OpenVPN Community Edition - powered by TurnKey, I use AWS.
I purchased OpenVPN Community Edition - powered by TurnKey through the AWS Marketplace.
What was our ROI?
I have seen a return on investment as it is really quick to install, where a lot of my security efforts get reduced. It is effective because within five to ten minutes you can configure it from the marketplace, and you are all set up to let your development and users access the environment in a secure manner.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that it is really minimal. I appreciate the pricing compared to other competitors.
What other advice do I have?
If one seeks a secure connection quickly and efficiently, I recommend looking into OpenVPN Community Edition - powered by TurnKey instead of any third-party solution. It is really quick to let you access your environment no matter what hyperscaler you use. It leads you to connect your environment securely and efficiently, and it is really time efficient since you do not have to bother with configuring any next-generation firewall or other configurations to enable client VPN connections for your setup.
OpenVPN Community Edition - powered by TurnKey is doing really well. I appreciate what the OpenVPN team has done to ensure it is efficient and quick for the end customer or partner to begin migrations securely, allowing their stakeholders to communicate with the public cloud environment securely. I rate OpenVPN Community Edition - powered by TurnKey a perfect 10 out of 10.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Works by fixing server.conf
After a fresh install, when you generate the client profile, you normally get timeouts. For this to fix, add the following lines in your server.conf file which is located as /etc/openvpn/server.conf,
The lines are,
cipher AES-256-CBC
auth SHA256
After adding these lines, restart the openvpn servive by using,
systemctl restart openvpn
Also, reboot the instance for any unknown changes to be applied.
