This is some R&D code for the samizdapp project. Very messy, but functional. More docs coming soon. In the meantime, message Ryan with questions.

This repo contains bare minimum setup to configure a dev environment or raspberry/rock pi into a wireguard VPN server and split tunnel DNS server via PiHole. Additionally, it contains a boneyard of other dockerized services.

If you plan on running skunkworks in a virtual machine, we offer some guides to get you started:

• VirtualBox
• Hyper-V

Prerequisits: docker, docker-compose, and wireguard for your development machine and optionally a phone. At least on Ubuntu, installing the wireguard-tools packaged does not pull down it's dependency resolvconf. So install that too.

This command can be used to install all dependencies:

sudo apt install git docker docker-compose wireguard-tools resolvconf`

• clone the repository and any submodules with git clone https://github.com/samizdapp/skunkworks.git --recurse-submodules.
• Add current user to the docker group, sudo usermod -aG docker $USER. And log out and back in or restart.
• run the install.sh script, this will start two wireguard interfaces and generate two client configurations
• visit https://localhost/wireguard to download client configuration client1.conf
• from a terminal, run wg-quick up ./client1.conf
• visit https://local.dns and https://roaming.dns to view the web interfaces for the two PiHole instances
• go back to https://localhost/wireguard and view client2.png
• scan the qr code with your mobile wireguard client
• activate the vpn and try to visit https://local.dns and https://roaming.dns from your phone (try turning off WiFi too to demonstrate roaming)

NOTE: setting up the client VPN will redirect DNS queries to pihole over the VPN, this means that if you tear down the docker environment, you won't have DNS anymore until you tear down your client environment with wg-quick down ./client1.conf

At this point, you now have a roaming capable tunnel to your dev environment, and can start hacking on other services.

Note: there are some magic strings in wireguard/Dockerfile and caddy/dockerfile. these need to be made configurable, but for now, change amd64 to aarch64 in all base image declarations, and uncomment the appropriate blocks in wireguard/Dockerfile depending on platform.

• get a raspberry pi or rockpi
• sign up for a free balena.io account
• set up your SBC for local development, find <id>.local for the device
• run balena push <id>.local
• wait until command line settles
• reboot device via balena website
• visit https://.local/wireguard to download client configuration client1.conf
• from a terminal, run wg-quick up ./client1.conf
• visit https://local.dns and https://roaming.dns to view the web interfaces for the two PiHole instances
• go back to https://.local/wireguard and view client2.png
• scan the qr code with your mobile wireguard client
• activate the vpn and try to visit https://local.dns and https://roaming.dns from your phone (try turning off WiFi too to demonstrate roaming)

At this point, you now have a roaming capable tunnel to your hardware environment, and can start hacking on services

Running balenaOS in a virtual machine provides rapid iteration and feedback. Here are some guides to get you set up on your software of choice.

• VirtualBox
• Hyper-V

This approach is subject to rapid change, but currently this repo uses wesher (original by @costella)

to connect two nodes:

• complete "getting started" on both
• curl the invite command:
  • LAN: https://<id.local/localhost>/wesher/lan_invite.sh
  • WAN: https://<id.local/localhost>/wesher/wan_invite.sh
• copy the bash string into clipboard
• ssh/exec into other nodes wesher container
• paste and execute invite script

see the services readme for the steps to add a service to the compose file, and an example.