TL;DR: Day-2 operation of a multi-hop VPS VPN chain requires clear, repeatable procedures for diagnostics, path healing, node expansion, node removal, and server replacement. This runbook provides step-by-step procedures to maintain chain integrity and verify fail-closed routing.

TL;DR: Provisioning VPN nodes manually is prone to configuration drift. This article presents a structured, idempotent Ansible architecture that deploys hardened baselines, LUKS vaults, Telegram alerts, WireGuard, and OpenVPN. Re-running the playbooks on a healthy node reports changed=0.