I wouldn’t recommend putting ssh behind any vpn connection unles you have a secondary access to the machine (for example virtual tty/terminal from your provider or local network ssh). At best, ssh should be the only publicly accessible service (unless hosting other services that need to be public accessible).
I usually move the ssh port to some higher number just to get rid of the basic scanners/skiddies.
Also disable password login (only keys) and no root login.
And for extra hardening, explicitly allow ssh for only users that need it (in sshd config).
Ssh behind a wire guard VPN server is technically more secure if you don’t have a key-only login, but a pain if the container goes down or if you need to access the server without access to wireguards VPN client on your device.
I wouldn’t recommend putting ssh behind any vpn connection unles you have a secondary access to the machine (for example virtual tty/terminal from your provider or local network ssh). At best, ssh should be the only publicly accessible service (unless hosting other services that need to be public accessible).
I usually move the ssh port to some higher number just to get rid of the basic scanners/skiddies.
Also disable password login (only keys) and no root login.
And for extra hardening, explicitly allow ssh for only users that need it (in sshd config).
Ssh behind a wire guard VPN server is technically more secure if you don’t have a key-only login, but a pain if the container goes down or if you need to access the server without access to wireguards VPN client on your device.
Highly recommend getting a router that can accept wireguard connections. If the router goes down you’re not accessing anything anyways.
Then always put ssh behind the wireguard connections.
For a homelab, there is rarely a need to expose ssh directly so best practice will always be to have multi layered security when possible.