First create a security group called technohipster with the following ports open to the world:
TCP 22, 443, 8080
UDP 1194
Now launch your instance using a fresh 12.04 ubuntu image
ec2-run-instances ami-b53012dc -k YOUR_KEYPAIR -g technohipster --instance-type t1.micro
Let's name it so we can find it easily in our AWS console (replacing i-99999999 with your instance ID)
ec2-create-tags i-99999999 -tag "Name=technohipster"
Lets ssh to the new instance
ssh -i ~/path/to/YOUR_KEYPAIR ubuntu@IP_ADDRESS
Check the docker install page for the latest instructions, but here is what we did.
# update dependencies for docker
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install linux-image-extra-`uname -r`
# install docker
$ curl -s http://get.docker.io/ubuntu/ | sudo sh
Once docker is up, install dockvpn
CID=$(sudo docker run -d -privileged -p 1194:1194/udp -p 443:443/tcp jpetazzo/openvpn)
sudo docker run -t -i -p 8080:8080 -volumes-from $CID jpetazzo/openvpn serveconfig
On your local machine, visit the URL it gives you adding the --no-check-certificate and -O technohipster.ovpn to download your client config.
wget https://50.17.20.24:8080/ --no-check-certificate -O technohipster.ovpn