albertdixon/transmission repository overview

⁠Docker - Transmission

Just a small Docker⁠ container running Transmission⁠ along with openvpn and Private Internet Access⁠. Includes transmission web control⁠ as an alternative to the base transmission web ui.

Owes a huge debt of gratitude to the fabulous work done by Scott Hansen⁠:

• Transmission container⁠
• pia_transmission_monitor⁠

⁠Repos

quay.io⁠: quay.io/albertrdixon/transmission

docker⁠: albertdixon/transmission

⁠Usage

You must, at minimum:

• Have a Private Internet Access⁠ account and provide your PIA username and password with the ENV vars PIA_USER and PIA_PASS.
• Run your container with --priviledged (not advised) or --cap-add=NET_ADMIN
• If you want to get to the web ui or the rpc interface you will need to proxy traffic to the container. Use something like jwilder's nginx-proxy⁠ or roll your own.

$ docker -d --cap-add=NET_ADMIN \
    -e PIA_USER=username -e PIA_PASS=mypassword \
    -v /storage/tv_shows:/downloads \
    albertdixon/transmission start

Transmission and Openvpn will set their home dirs - where all their configs and things will be - to /transmission and /transmission/openvpn respectively. So, if you want to persist things, just mount a local volume or data container volume to /transmission

You can also place custom config and openvpn files in the mounted volume and they will be respected. Transmission will look for /transmission/settings.json before creating it. Openvpn will look for /transmission/openvpn/pia.ovpn before creating / copying it.

$ docker -d --cap-add=NET_ADMIN \
    -e PIA_USER=username -e PIA_PASS=mypassword \
    -v /path/to/transmission:/transmission \
    -v /storage/tv_shows:/downloads \
    albertdixon/transmission start

PIA cert and key are at /certs/pia.crt and /certs/pia.pem

Completed torrent script is at /scripts/completed.sh. Overwrite it with your own if you like!

⁠Env Vars