Docker ARM qBittorrent VPN

Docker image dedicated to ARMv7 processors, hosting a qBittorrent client with WebUI while connecting to OpenVPN.



This project is based on an existing project, modified to work on ARMv7 WD My Cloud EX2 Ultra NAS.

See GitHub repository: https://github.com/haugene/docker-transmission-openvpn



This image is part of a Docker images collection, intended to build a full-featured seedbox, and compatible with WD My Cloud EX2 Ultra NAS (Docker v1.7.0):

Installation

Preparation

Before running container, you have to retrieve UID and GID for the user used to mount your torrents data directory:

• Get user UID:

  $ id -u <user>

• Get user GID:

  $ id -g <user>

  The container will run impersonated as this user, in order to have read/write access to the torrents data directory.

Run container in background

$ docker run --name qbittorrent --restart=always -d \
        --add-host=dockerhost:<docker host IP> \
        --dns=<ip of dns #1> --dns=<ip of dns #2> \
        -p <webui port>:8082 --cap-add=NET_ADMIN \
        --device=<tunnel network interface> \              
        -v <path to torrent dir to scan>:/torrentdir \
        -v <path to completed dir>:/completeddir \
        -v <path to incompleted dir>:/incompletedir \
        -v <path to qBittorrent configuration dir>:/config/.config/qBittorrent \
        -v /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro \
        -e "OPENVPN_PROVIDER=<openvpn provider>" \
        -e "OPENVPN_CONFIG=<openvpn configuration>" \
        -e "OPENVPN_USERNAME=<openvpn user name>" \
        -e "OPENVPN_PASSWORD=<openvpn password> \
        -e "OPENVPN_OPTS=--inactive 3600 --ping 10 --ping-exit 60" \
        -e "LOCAL_NETWORK=<local network ip/mask>" \
        -e "PUID=<user uid>" \
        -e "PGID=<user gid>" \
        ahuh/arm-qbittorrentvpn

or

$ ./docker-run.sh qbittorrent ahuh/arm-qbittorrentvpn

(set parameters in docker-run.sh before launch, and generate a docker-params.sh to store secret OpenVPN parameters, as described in docker-run.sh)

Configure qBittorrent

The container will use volumes directories to store torrent files, downloaded files, and configuration files.



You have to create these volume directories with the PUID/PGID user permissions, before launching the container:

/torrentdir
/completeddir
/incompletedir
/config/.config/qBittorrent

The container will automatically create a qBittorrent.conf file in the qBittorrent configuration dir (only if none was present before).

• Authentication is enabled in WebUI. The default credentials (you may change them in WebUI settings) are:
  • Login: admin
  • Password: adminadmin
• This section will be automatically added to prevent manual validation at first start:

  [LegalNotice]
  Accepted=true

• The following parameters will be automatically modified at launch for compatibility with the Docker container:

  [Preferences]
  ...
  Downloads\SavePath=/completeddir
  Downloads\TempPathEnabled=true
  Downloads\TempPath=/incompletedir
  Downloads\ScanDirs=/torrentdir

• With PIA VPN, the following parameter will be automatically modified at launch if port forwarding is available:

  [Preferences]
  Connection\PortRangeMin=XXX

  
  
  If you modified the qBittorrent.conf file, restart the container to reload qBittorrent configuration:

  $ docker stop qbittorrent
  $ docker start qbittorrent

HOW-TOs

Get a new instance of bash in running container

Use this command instead of docker attach if you want to interact with the container while it’s running:

$ docker exec -it qbittorrent /bin/bash

or

$ ./docker-bash.sh qbittorrent

Build image

$ docker build -t arm-qbittorrentvpn .

or

$ ./docker-build.sh arm-qbittorrentvpn