How to create Site to Site VPN in Azure Stack (with Fortigate)

I’m a huge fan of Azure Stack and love to use it for many scenarios in my work/homelab. Often, I need to connect Azure Stack to other hardware/software within my lab. That is when I rely on Site to Site VPN solutions. 

One thing I’m not huge fan of in Azure stack is integrated VPN solution. I usually use third party solutions like Fortigate.

In this scenario I will show how to connect Azure Stack to Intel NUC in my local network. I have configured Fortigate VM in Azure Stack, and in my physical network there is one Fortigate 60D and behind it is Intel NUC with installed Windows Server 2016.

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Install NextCloud on CentOS / RHEL

Nextcloud is great option for sharing files, something like Dropbox, iCloud, Onedrive… In this tutorial we will learn how to install it on top of the Centos with LAMP stack.

Nextcloud is enterprise grade open source project, which definitely deserves love and support.

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How to install and configure Fortigate VM on Azure Stack

Fortigate installation on Azure (Stack) should be a piece of cake according to documentation and internet, but for me – it isn’t. I had a problem that VMs that I assigned to my Fortigate installation could not access internet.

I saw a lot of posts around the internet with similar problems, but none of them with solution. As usual I went through a lot of documentation, done everything by the book – but no luck for me.

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