New servers mean new things to play with and new setups that have to be done. I set up a new VM that I wanted to always be connected to a VPN and for that VPN to come up whenever the system is started. The biggest “problem” here is that this VM is running in runlevel 3 so no GUI is available. So let’s jump into setting up an OpenVPN client using network manger’s command line interface
While these instructions are written for Fedora 25, they should work on any system using NetworkManager. You will have to figure out what packages you need and how to install them if you are not using an RPM (and probably Red Hat based) system.