docker-ocserv is an OpenConnect VPN Server boxed in a Docker image built by Tommy Lau currently maintained by Amin Vakil.

Docker images are now tagged!

You can stick to a specific ocserv version like quay.io/aminvakil/ocserv:1.1.3, so you can get bugfixes, security patches and alpine version bumps, and be sure that your ocserv version always remains the same.

You can also bump each ocserv minor update manually using something like 1.1.3-2 and so on.

Latest tags can always be found here and here.

Upgrade alpine to 3.13.6 to use openssl 1.1.1k-r0.

Important Note:

Updating to this version is highly recommended becuase of this upgrade as CVE-2021-3449.

Upgrade alpine to 3.12.3 and ocserv to 1.1.2.

Important Note:

isolate-workers = true should be disabled in ocserv.conf, otherwise clients keep disconnecting after a while.

This has been set by default on the new docker images, but you should change your current containers with this command yourself:

docker exec YOUR_CONTAINER_NAME sed -i 's/^isolate-workers/#isolate-workers/' /etc/ocserv/ocserv.conf

OpenConnect server (ocserv) is an SSL VPN server. It implements the OpenConnect SSL VPN protocol, and has also (currently experimental) compatibility with clients using the AnyConnect SSL VPN protocol.

Get the docker image by running the following commands:

docker pull quay.io/aminvakil/ocserv

Start an ocserv instance:

docker run --name ocserv --sysctl net.ipv4.ip_forward=1 --cap-add NET_ADMIN --security-opt no-new-privileges -p 443:443 -p 443:443/udp -d quay.io/aminvakil/ocserv

This will start an instance with the a test user named test and password is also test.

All the variables to this image is optional, which means you don't have to type in any environment variables, and you can have a OpenConnect Server out of the box! However, if you like to config the ocserv the way you like it, here's what you wanna know.

CA_CN, this is the common name used to generate the CA(Certificate Authority).

CA_ORG, this is the organization name used to generate the CA.

CA_DAYS, this is the expiration days used to generate the CA.

SRV_CN, this is the common name used to generate the server certification.

SRV_ORG, this is the organization name used to generate the server certification.

SRV_DAYS, this is the expiration days used to generate the server certification.

NO_TEST_USER, while this variable is set to not empty, the test user will not be created. You have to create your own user with password. The default value is to create test user with password test.

The default values of the above environment variables:

Start an instance out of the box with username test and password test

docker run --name ocserv --sysctl net.ipv4.ip_forward=1 --cap-add NET_ADMIN --security-opt no-new-privileges -p 443:443 -p 443:443/udp -d quay.io/aminvakil/ocserv

Start an instance with server name my.test.com, My Test and 365 days

docker run --name ocserv --sysctl net.ipv4.ip_forward=1 --cap-add NET_ADMIN --security-opt no-new-privileges -p 443:443 -p 443:443/udp -e SRV_CN=my.test.com -e SRV_ORG="My Test" -e SRV_DAYS=365 -d quay.io/aminvakil/ocserv

Start an instance with CA name My CA, My Corp and 3650 days

docker run --name ocserv --sysctl net.ipv4.ip_forward=1 --cap-add NET_ADMIN --security-opt no-new-privileges -p 443:443 -p 443:443/udp -e CA_CN="My CA" -e CA_ORG="My Corp" -e CA_DAYS=3650 -d quay.io/aminvakil/ocserv

A totally customized instance with both CA and server certification

docker run --name ocserv --sysctl net.ipv4.ip_forward=1 --cap-add NET_ADMIN --security-opt no-new-privileges -p 443:443 -p 443:443/udp -e CA_CN="My CA" -e CA_ORG="My Corp" -e CA_DAYS=3650 -e SRV_CN=my.test.com -e SRV_ORG="My Test" -e SRV_DAYS=365 -d quay.io/aminvakil/ocserv

Start an instance as above but without test user

docker run --name ocserv --sysctl net.ipv4.ip_forward=1 --cap-add NET_ADMIN --security-opt no-new-privileges -p 443:443 -p 443:443/udp -e CA_CN="My CA" -e CA_ORG="My Corp" -e CA_DAYS=3650 -e SRV_CN=my.test.com -e SRV_ORG="My Test" -e SRV_DAYS=365 -e NO_TEST_USER=1 -v /some/path/to/ocpasswd:/etc/ocserv/ocpasswd -d quay.io/aminvakil/ocserv

WARNING: The ocserv requires the ocpasswd file to start, if NO_TEST_USER=1 is provided, there will be no ocpasswd created, which will stop the container immediately after start it. You must specific a ocpasswd file pointed to /etc/ocserv/ocpasswd by using the volume argument -v by docker as demonstrated above.

All the users opertaions happened while the container is running. If you used a different container name other than ocserv, then you have to change the container name accordingly.

If say, you want to create a user named test, type the following command

docker exec -ti ocserv ocpasswd -c /etc/ocserv/ocpasswd test
Enter password:
Re-enter password:

When prompt for password, type the password twice, then you will have the user with the password you want.

Delete user is similar to add user, just add another argument -d to the command line

docker exec -ti ocserv ocpasswd -c /etc/ocserv/ocpasswd -d test

The above command will delete the default user test, if you start the instance without using environment variable NO_TEST_USER.

Change password is exactly the same command as add user, please refer to the command mentioned above.