WireGuard vs OpenVPN

Is WireGuard really what it’s advertised to be?

Most of you that I have daily conversations with know, I have lately been paying even closer attention to remote access solutions as I am working on a project in this particular space on top of having built solutions for clients regularly to provide a way for remote workers to access internal resources since the 1990's. I have also sort of fell into a digital nomad lifestyle as of about a year ago which makes understanding these solutions quite important to me personally. Sure, VPNs are often used for protecting privacy and escaping censorship too but that’s not my primary interests. What’s more important to me is being able to securely access resources across multiple firewalls in hybrid cloud environments and companies with multiple corporate/datacenter locations.

With that said, WireGuard has popped up time and time again in the recent year or so and it’s an opensource cross-platform solution that promises its users “an extremely simple yet fast and modern VPN that utilizes state-of-the-art cryptography”. Perhaps what’s a more laymen description is that WireGuard is supposed to be much easier to install/configure/maintain and can do much faster data transfers. Since that sounded like a super enticing pitch to me, once I had a chance, I threw up a container I built on the same Docker host which I am…