Just a small Docker container running Transmission along with openvpn and Private Internet Access.
Shamelessly steals from the fabulous work done by Scott Hansen:
quay.io: quay.io/albertrdixon/transmission
docker: albertdixon/transmission
You must, at minimum:
- Have a Private Internet Access account and provide your PIA username and password with the ENV vars
PIA_USERandPIA_PASS. - Run your container with
--priviledgedor--cap-add=NET_ADMIN
$ docker -d --cap-add=NET_ADMIN -e PIA_USER=username -e PIA_PASS=mypassword -v /storage/tv_shows:/downloads albertdixon/transmission docker-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 and /transmission/openvpn/pia.crt before creating / copying them.
$ 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 docker-start
| Var Name | Default Value | Description |
|---|---|---|
PIA_USER |
none | REQUIRED Your PIA login |
PIA_PASS |
none | REQUIRED Your PIA password |
CACHE_SIZE |
50 | transmission cahce size in MB |
CLEAN_FREQUENCY |
1800 | time in seconds between runs of torrent_cleaner.py |
COMPLETED_SCRIPT |
/usr/local/bin/completed.sh | script to run after torrent completed |
COMPLETED_SCRIPT_ENABLED |
false | enable a script to run on torrent completion |
CONGESTION |
lp | use this congestion algorithm. Set to '' to use none |
DOWNLOAD_DIR |
/downloads | default download directory |
DOWNLOAD_QUEUE_ENABLED |
true | enable download queue? |
DOWNLOAD_QUEUE_SIZE |
3 | size of download queue |
ENABLE_CLEANER |
true | enable torrent_cleaner.py? |
MESSAGE_LEVEL |
1 | Transmission message level. (0: None, 1: Error, 2: Info, 3: Debug) |
OPEN_FILE_LIMIT |
32768 | open file limit. Make sure you have done appropriate tuning in your host kernel. |
OPENVPN_GATEWAY |
ca-toronto.privateinternetaccess.com | PIA gateway server. This should be one with port forwarding enabled. More information |
OPENVPN_GATEWAY_PORT |
1194 | openvpn port. More information |
OPENVPN_HOME |
/transmission/openvpn | openvpn home directory |
OPENVPN_LOG |
/dev/stderr | openvpn writes logs here |
OPENVPN_MUTE |
20 | openvpn will suppress duplicate messages. |
OPENVPN_PROTO |
udp | openvpn protocol. More information |
OPENVPN_VERB |
3 | openvpn logging verbosity. More information |
PATH |
/usr/local/bin:$PATH | obvious... |
PEER_LIMIT_GLOBAL |
1200 | global peer limit |
PEER_LIMIT_PER_TORRENT |
180 | peer limit per torrent |
PEER_PORT |
51234 | initial peer port. This gets automatically updated by pia_transmission_monitor.py |
QUEUE_STALLED_ENABLED |
true | enable stalled torrent queue? |
QUEUE_STALLED_MINUTES |
5 | place torrent in stalled queue if inactive for this many minutes |
RATIO_LIMIT |
1 | default ratio |
RATIO_LIMIT_ENABLED |
true | seed until torrent has reached the ratio limit? |
RPC_AUTHENTICATION_REQUIRED |
false | require RPC authentication? |
RPC_PASSWORD |
client | RPC password |
RPC_PORT |
9091 | RPC port. If you change this make sure you expose the port. |
RPC_USERNAME |
client | RPC password |
SEED_QUEUE_ENABLED |
true | enable queue for seeding torrents |
SEED_QUEUE_SIZE |
2 | seed queue size |
SPEED_LIMIT_DOWN |
5000 | download speed limit |
SPEED_LIMIT_DOWN_ENABLED |
false | enable download speed limit? |
SPEED_LIMIT_UP |
400 | upload speed limit |
SPEED_LIMIT_UP_ENABLED |
true | enable upload speed limit? |
SUPERVISOR_LOG_LEVEL |
INFO | log level for supervisord |
TRANSMISSION_HOME |
/transmission | transmission home dir |
TRANSMISSION_LOG |
/dev/stderr | |
TRANSMISSION_WEB_HOME |
/web | custom transmission web interface. Attach your preferred one to this location (default is transmission-web-control). Set this to '' for core transmission UI |
UPLOAD_SLOTS_PER_TORRENT |
14 | upload slots per torrent |
WATCH_DIR |
/torrents | watch dir for .torrent files |
WATCH_DIR_ENABLED |
false | enable watch dir? |