Arr, my friends. I have an old laptop already running some servoces on docker 24/7 at home and looking to extend it’s functionalities to become torrent downloader with media server for TV. Need VPN for obvious reasons.
I was wondering if there are already all-in-one solutions to just run docler compose file and get 2 containers: one running torrent client with all traffic via VPN in another?
I plan to use Mullvad VPN.
Upd. Updated title to highlight it’s a request. Not sure why getting downvotes, please elaborate :)
Use gluetun, look up how to configure for your provider. Run a 2nd container for your torrent client, using network_mode: “service:gluetun” to run all your traffic though the vpn. Note that if you’re forwarding ports from your client to e.g. access the web UI, you’ll need to forward them from the gluetun container instead.
If you want to use transmission as your torrent client I recommend checking out https://github.com/haugene/docker-transmission-openvpn . There are some additional configuration changes needed for mullvad but it should be straightforward.
Just google “gluetun + qbittorrent”. There are some examples, but in short you want network_mode: "service:gluetun" and depends_on: -gluetun under qbittorrent so it doesnt have connection if gluetun fails.
Gluetun supports a lot of providers, documentation is decent and simple.
But consider airvpn or any other with port forwarding if you want to torrent. Mullvad ditched PF recently 😔
My (almost finished) script creates a setup like this. It doesn’t just do a client + VPN, but it can also set up radarr, sonarr, jellyfin, and a couple of other services
Trash guides say you shouldn’t run the *arr’s through a VPN because you’re likely to get blocked by metadata servers. I only run my download client through the VPN + also use gluetun’s HTTP proxy for Prowlarr’s indexers
I wish I could do that as well, but most of the big public trackers are blocked where I live. I need to run Sonarr and the like through the VPN because I can’t search through the trackers otherwise
I haven’t heard of prowlarr’s HTTP proxy. Do you have a link to more info about it?
Sure, the docs are pretty minimal though: https://wiki.servarr.com/prowlarr/settings (just click on Proxy)
Basically you can configure a proxy (from your VPN provider for example) for each indexer (or font add a tag to apply it to all of them), and queries to indexers will run through there. This avoids Sonarr making calls to TVDB or whatever through the VPN and getting blocked.
This is a great work! Documentation is clear to a person not familiar with the topic (me). Will try that out and provide feedback, thank you!
No one-stop-shop that I have seen or heard of, but check out Gluetun. https://github.com/qdm12/gluetun
