adumont/transmission repository overview

⁠Transmission server docker container based on Alpine Linux

It's based on Alpine Linux, so it's extremely small. Image is less than 10MB!

When you run the container, transmission-daemon is started with nice 10, and runs as user 119:131 (uid/gid from Ubuntu). You can specify command line parameters to transmission-daemon on the command line if needed (like --log-debug for example).

The container is designed to be used with two volumes. I personally use host volumes, but you could equally use data containers I guess.

• One configuration Volume, expected to me mounted on /etc/transmission in the container, which is the directory where is the settings.json file.

• Work/Data Volume(s), which you would mount where you'd like. It's were you will have your download-dir, incomplete-dir,... Remember the values you put in the settings.json are relative to the container. You can also set the same path as the host, it will be easier. In my case, I have those in a ZFS filesystem on the Docker host: /zfs/utorrent (I've kept the name for historical reason!), so I'll share it with the container with: -v /zfs/utorrent:/zfs/utorrent.

(You could also use only one volume, and put your data in the same config volume.)

⁠Run the Transmission container as a service with Upstart

As an example, I provide a sample docker-transmission.conf (see project source on Github), to be customized (especially the volumes) and then placed in your Docker host /etc/init/ folder.

Once there, you can then issue the following commands:

⁠Start the container (will start at boot time)

service docker-transmission start

⁠Stop the container (will stop on shutdown)

service docker-transmission start

You can also check the logs, with:

⁠docker logs -f transmission