Devin operates in its own VM workspace and sometimes needs to access resources within your internal network (e.g., internal package registry, staging services, self-hosted services). Like your developers, Devin can use a client VPN to connect to your internal network.

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Prerequisites Checklist

Before setting up VPN access, verify the following:

  1. Public Access Verification

    • Confirm these services are not accessible via the public internet.
    • For cloud-hosted services (e.g., Gitlab Cloud Package Registry, JFrog Artifactory Cloud), an access token is typically sufficient.

  2. Authentication Method: Using a service account to authenticate is recommended. Credentials can be securely stored via Devin’s Secrets functionality.

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Setting up OpenVPN

OpenVPN comes pre-installed in Devin’s workspace. To configure:

  1. Upload your config.ovpn configuration file to Devin’s workspace by dragging and dropping it into the VSCode instance
VPN Configuration Interface
  1. Set up OpenVPN as a system service by creating the file /etc/systemd/system/openvpn.service:
[Unit]
Description=OpenVPN Client Service
After=network.target

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/sbin/openvpn --config /path/to/config.ovpn
Restart=always

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Then reload systemd, enable and start the service.

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable openvpn
sudo systemctl start openvpn

This ensures the VPN connection is managed by the system and automatically restarts if it fails.

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Alternative VPN Clients

If your organization uses a different VPN solution:

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Publicly Available VPN Clients

For clients like Fortinet that can be installed via a package manager:

FortiClient VPN Installation
  1. Install the client during setup using the appropriate package manager commands: 
    sudo apt install forticlient
  2. Configure the startup command to establish connection

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Private VPN Clients

For clients like Palo Alto GlobalProtect that require a binary installation:

  1. Upload the client binary and certificate to Devin’s workspace by dragging and dropping it into the VSCode instance

  2. Install using:

    sudo dpkg -i /path/to/GlobalProtect_deb.deb
GlobalProtect VPN Installation
  1. Configure the startup command: 
    globalprotect import-certificate --location /path/to/cert
GlobalProtect Certificate Import