
My WireGuard VPN Headache
Why GitHub Hated My MTU (And How I Fixed It) Let me tell you about the frustrating day I spent wrestling with my WireGuard VPN and why GitHub decided to be the only site that wouldn’t play nice. I’m hoping my experience, especially if you’re running WireGuard in a microk8s environment like I was, can save you some headaches. The Setup: microk8s, Ubuntu, and WireGuard My setup was a bit complex. I had a microk8s cluster running on an Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS server node (GNU/Linux 6.8.0-54-generic x86_64). I was running my WireGuard VPN server as a pod within this microk8s cluster. This added a layer of network complexity that I didn’t initially account for. ...