How to use SSH tunnels and VPN basics

Build Tunnelbay, secure tunnels for admin access with SSH -L/-R, VPN intro.

  • Difficulty Intermediate
  • Parts 10
  • Stack SSH -L/-R, VPN intro

What you are learning

Tunnelbay is secure tunnels for admin access. The teaching focus is Tunnels (SSH -L/-R, VPN intro).

Work in order. Early parts set vocabulary and environment; later parts assume the earlier checkpoints.

How to use these lessons

Read the goal, open the matching GitHub folder, complete the lab or exercises, then return for the explanation. If a command fails, check you are in the numbered folder first.

Open the Tunnelbay GitHub repo →

Parts in order

Each chapter below is one checkpoint in this lab.