Torrent Safely Over a VPN With This Simple One-Click Guide

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Published 2023-07-05

Learn how to route containers over any VPN provider (well, almost) using the config below! I use a Torrent stack example to spin up Docker containers qBittorrent, Sonarr, Jackett, Prowlarr, and route it through Gluetun so that your traffic is protected.

NordVPN: ref.nordvpn.com/MkwWsHpnBtY
Docker Compose: github.com/JamesTurland/JimsGarage/tree/main/Torre…
Gluetun: github.com/qdm12/gluetun
NordVPN Wireguard Settings: github.com/qdm12/gluetun-wiki/blob/main/setup/prov…

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GitHub: github.com/JamesTurland/JimsGarage

00:00 - Routing a Container through a VPN (Overview)
00:52 - Torrent Stack
02:10 - Gluetun & Container Overview (Docker Compose)
06:14 - Deploy Containers in Docker
07:23 - Check the Containers Are Running
08:58 - qBittorrent Web GUI
09:23 - Outro

All Comments (21)

@bobsmith-dn1xw 1 year ago

Hey, it actually works! Thank you so much for this video. My new favourite channel!
@milesprue5496 7 months ago

after three days of messing around with separate stacks for these apps and following other guides this video finally works. thank you
@jdcpr 6 months ago

Finally found how to specify to user a container for the networking. The most important piece of info for me, " network_mode: "service:gluetun"". Thank you, everything automatized now. 👍🏼
@scuzzyhoulihan9853 4 months ago

Life saver video I was trying to figure out how to access my docker when it was routing via gluetun. I just needed those port mappings and boom. Thank you sir!
@wotnix 7 months ago

Hi Jim! Some have the ability to point things out in a understandable way. Just plane and simple for the common man. You are one of them! Thank you for the video.
@chrisumali9841 1 year ago

Thanks for the demo and info, have a great day
@bibekparajuli6565 5 months ago

was struggling with this for hours. Your guide was so clear, thank you very much....
@Evakron 6 months ago

This was super helpful, thanks so much for the video and the great info on your github. With the great commenting and docs i was able to adjust the yaml pretty quickly and everything worked on the first deploy, which I think is a first for me. Thanks!
@maroncito 9 months ago

Great tutorial, works like a charm! Thanks!!
@Hombre1968 4 months ago

Excellent video, keep up the great work!
@tightning 1 year ago

Great video as usual, very informative and brilliant step-by-step instructions. Apps without dark mode should be cast into a digital black hole!
@businessgoose3725 4 months ago

Awesome content, thank you!
@xanzut 7 months ago

The gluetun can be separate to single container and use `network_mode:"container:/gluetun"` makes the single gluetun container can be used for every container
@m.epictures6344 10 months ago

Hi Jim, love the vids! Are all these docker containers from all your vids OK to put on one VM instance or should they be split into a few VMs?
@hyperprotagonist 6 months ago

Love to see a proxmox lxc stack setup this way!
@cjmoss51 5 months ago

You actually helped me resolve the issue of why mines wasnt working. THANK YOU!!! The wiki of gluetun was 0 help.
@Owner101Acc 4 months ago

Just a small addition to the compose-file, but correct me if I'm wrong. To prevent gluetun being active too late, the "depends on" should be depending on gluetun being healthy: depends_on: gluetun: condition: service_healthy
@kevinhughes9801 1 year ago

Brill stuff thanks
@HendersonHood 5 months ago

What if I don't want to use a VPN: how would the docker-compose file change?
@cybr774 2 months ago

I'm trying to set this up with a wireguard server that I already run on a VPS. Unfortunately it doesn't work when I configure the vpn provider to be custom