Accessing private container network via openvpn container

[Think Privacy]

Hi everyone,

I am new to Proxmox and looking for a little networking help.

So I have an openvpn container running as a gateway which has a public IP. Currently I route all my Internet traffic from my devices through the gateway for privacy/security reasons.

Now I also want to be able to run some containers on a private network via the VPN.

So currently my VPN assigns me a 10.209.26.* IP address when I connect my client, and I would like to run more containers in the same private network as follows:

gitlab server
node server(s)
intranet

I don't want any of these servers to have a public IP but I do want them all in the same address space as the vpn clients. I have zero idea how to setup the networking in Proxmox to do this and would appreciate some pointers.

Also I am not sure if maybe it would better to install openvpn directly onto the Proxmox host rather than running it in its own container?

Ideally I would also like to move the Proxmox management website onto the private network as well so that it is only accessible over the VPN.

Thanks for any help.

 

[LnxBil]

Normally, OpenVPN creates point-to-point network for the server and the client, so you cannot add stuff.

What you can do is running a private network with your containers including an openvpn-gateway and route traffic between the networks. I run a similar setup which works fine.