OpenVPN and Transmission with WebUI
This container contains OpenVPN and Transmission with a configuration where Transmission is running only when OpenVPN has an active tunnel. It has built in support for many popular VPN providers to make the setup easier.
Read this first
The documentation for this image is hosted on GitHub pages:
https://haugene.github.io/docker-transmission-openvpn/
If you can't find what you're looking for there, please have a look in the discussions as we're trying to use that for general questions.
If you have found what you believe to be an issue or bug, create an issue and provide enough details for us to have a chance to reproduce it or undertand what's going on. NB: Be sure to search for similar issues (open and closed) before opening a new one.
Just started having problems?
We've just merged a larger release from dev to the master branch.
This means that the latest
tag of this image now is version 4.0.
If this release causes issues for you, try running the latest 3.x release:
haugene/transmission-openvpn:3.7.1
. Note that this is a temporary fix,
there will not be any more releases on the 3.x line.
Any instabilities with 4.0, please take it up in the 4.0 release discussion: haugene#1936
Quick Start
These examples shows valid setups using PIA as provider for both docker run and docker-compose. Note that you should read some documentation at some point, but this is a good place to start.
Docker run
$ docker run --cap-add=NET_ADMIN -d \
-v /your/storage/path/:/data \
-e OPENVPN_PROVIDER=PIA \
-e OPENVPN_CONFIG=france \
-e OPENVPN_USERNAME=user \
-e OPENVPN_PASSWORD=pass \
-e LOCAL_NETWORK=192.168.0.0/16 \
--log-driver json-file \
--log-opt max-size=10m \
-p 9091:9091 \
haugene/transmission-openvpn
Docker Compose
version: '3.3'
services:
transmission-openvpn:
cap_add:
- NET_ADMIN
volumes:
- '/your/storage/path/:/data'
environment:
- OPENVPN_PROVIDER=PIA
- OPENVPN_CONFIG=france
- OPENVPN_USERNAME=user
- OPENVPN_PASSWORD=pass
- LOCAL_NETWORK=192.168.0.0/16
logging:
driver: json-file
options:
max-size: 10m
ports:
- '9091:9091'
image: haugene/transmission-openvpn
Please help out (about:maintenance)
This image was created for my own use, but sharing is caring, so it had to be open source. It has now gotten quite popular, and that's great! But keeping it up to date, providing support, fixes and new features takes time. If you feel that you're getting a good tool and want to support it, there are a couple of options:
A small montly amount through or
a one time donation with
All donations are greatly appreciated! Another great way to contribute is of course through code. A big thanks to everyone who has contributed so far!