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How to autostart Wireguard (wg-quick) on boot on Alpine Linux

If you have a Wireguard config file such as /etc/wireguard/wghome.conf, which you can start manually using wg-quick up wghome, this is how you autostart it on boot. Thanks to Justin Ludwig on Serverfault for the template for that init script

Create /etc/init.d/wg-quick-wghome:

wg_quick_openrc_init.sh
#!/sbin/openrc-run
description="wg-quick wghome"

depend() {
    need net
    need localmount
}

start() {
    wg-quick up schlaftier
}

stop() {
    wg-quick down schlaftier
}

Then make it executable:

example.sh
chmod a+x /etc/init.d/wg-quick-wghome

and enable it to start on boot:

example.sh
rc-update add wg-quick-wghome default

and start it right now if desired:

example.sh
/etc/init.d/wg-quick-wghome start

Of course you can add multiple scripts like this. Just ensure to name them differently and perform all the steps required to enable startup on boot.

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