hey,
Every time my OpenVPN-AS server updates using watchtower, oneshot or portainer or any other method we lose our license and the server is claiming that the hardware has changed.
Is this a known issue, or is there any way to avoid this?
Openvpn-as is proprietary software and they use some algorithm to check whether the hardware has changed. We have no idea what the parameters are. Unfortunately, no one on the team has a license so we can’t really check or try to reverse engineer.
One thing I can recommend is, setting the hostname in your container creation parameters and making sure that it doesn’t change (it is listed in the web gui). If that doesn’t work, I have no idea what else to try.
Unfortunately the hostname isn’t changing, so it can’t be that 
OpenVPN tell me that if the VM ID, Network adapters or any hardware changes at all it causes this
I’ll just have to request a new key every time I update it 
Hostname will change if you haven’t explicitly set one in the docker create arguments. docker assigns a random string as the hostname if one is not defined.
Not sure what they mean by VM ID (perhaps hostname??)