Openvpn in EC2 for Chromebooks : Part 2

[ Update: take a look at this write up as well ] ChromeOS has a minimalistic design does a fairly good job at hiding the complex internals of the operating system. But deep inside it still runs linux and has a full blown openvpn client. In this post I'll show you how to use " ONC " (Open Network Configuration) format to configure OpenVPN client inside ChromeOS. This file is very similar to an .ovpn file. The core scripts which did the cert conversion and created the sample ONC file was contributed by Ralph by reading the ONC documentations by himself. If there is a bleeding-edge user of chromebook.. he is the best example I can think off. These scripts are now published on github and here is a step by step guide of how to use it. Step 1: Launch a new amazon instance ( Based on Amazon Linux AMI ) Pick defaults for everything ( Use t1.micro for the cheapest instance ) If you don't already have a keypair, create one yourself and upload your public key to amazon Step 2