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Connect to private/internal network with VPN in CircleCI

Reference

https://support.circleci.com/hc/en-us/articles/360049397051-How-to-set-up-a-VPN-connection-during-builds-

Note: VPN will only work when using Linux VM (machine) executor in CircleCI. VPN using docker image executor is not supported

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