jbg77/openvpn-rtorrent-flood repository overview

⁠Docker-flood-ovpn

Inspired by github.com/haugene/docker-transmission-openvpn/⁠

Torrenting container running rtorrent⁠+flood⁠ with OpenVPN. Unlike haugene's docker, a .ovpn config file has to be provided on your own if you want to use vpn.

⁠Environment variables

⁠OpenVPN

⁠flood

⁠rtorrent

⁠Owner

These variables are to fit permissions' volumes between host and container

⁠Volumes

• /data : Torrents' downloads
• /config : Flood's db and config files (.ovpn, cert, key)

⁠Example

⁠Run

docker run \
    --rm -ti \
    --name seedwhale \
    --cap-add=NET_ADMIN \
    --device=/dev/net/tun \   
    --dns 8.8.8.8 --dns 8.8.4.4 \
    -v /opt/flood/data:/data \
    -v /opt/flood/config/:/config \
    -e OVPN_LOGIN="user" \
    -e OVPN_PASSWORD="password" \
    -e UID=1234 \
    -e GID=1234 \
    -e OVPN_CONFIG="file.ovpn" \
    -e FLOOD_SECRET="such-wow-secret" \
    -e RTORRENT_DOWNLOAD_RATE=1000 \
    -e RTORRENT_UPLOAD_RATE=500 \
    -d \
    tweelon/flood-openvpn

⁠Notes:

• --privileged is necessary to make openvpn works. Replaced by --cap-add=NET_ADMIN --device=/dev/net/tun to be less exposed.
• --dns perhaps too. See this⁠.
• You may not access to the container even with -p 3000:3000 because of the VPN. This is why we need a proxy. See this⁠ for further details.

⁠Run proxy

docker run \
    --rm -ti \
    --name ovpn-proxy \
    --link seedwhale:flood \
    -p 8080:8080 \
    -d \
    tweelon/flood-proxy

Once you've run the main container and the proxy container, you can now access to http://localhost:8080⁠

⁠Post-deployment

You can watch what's going on inside the container by running:

• docker exec -it seedwhale bash
• screen -ls To list screen sessions
• script /dev/null
• screen -r rtorrent or screen -r flood or screen -r openvpn

⁠Stuff todo

• docker-compose
• complete docs
• remove unnecessary stuff
• migrate to alpine
• gitgud
• make torrenting free again