How to add VPN to qbittirrent container

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I have successfully setup a linuxserver/qbittorrent container which runs through a linuxserver/letsencrypt proxy server container.

Now, I would like to protect my qbittorrent container with my VPN service (Private Internet Access).

How would I set this up? Any help is appreciated.

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Try adding these variables to the container run command:

  --cap-add=NET_ADMIN \
  -e DOCKER_MODS=taisun/config-mods:pia \
  -e PIAUSER=pmyuser \
  -e PIAPASS=mypassword \
  -e PIAENDPOINT="US New York City" \

A list of the endpoints available can be seen here:
https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/pages/network/

You can confirm PIA is working by issuing:

docker exec qbittorrent curl -sL ifconfig.me

And ensuring it is a PIA IP you see there.

You will also need a host Tun device if that does not already exist: (or simply install openvpn package host level it will take care of creating this for you)

 #!/bin/sh

 # Create the necessary file structure for /dev/net/tun
 if ( [ ! -c /dev/net/tun ] ); then
     if ( [ ! -d /dev/net ] ); then
         mkdir -m 755 /dev/net
     fi
     mknod /dev/net/tun c 10 200
 fi

 # Load the tun module if not already loaded
 if ( !(lsmod | grep -q "^tun\s") ); then
     insmod /lib/modules/tun.ko
 fi
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Thanks for your quick response.

Adding these variables to my qbittorrent run command shouldn’t be a problem.
Where should I run the script? Inside the qbittorrent container, or the host?

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That script is just an example of how to create the host level tun device, you may allready have one in /dev/net and as I say you can just install openvpn package host level to get one.

host level

5

tun was already in /dev/net

I added the parameters to my run command.

But I still have a non-PIA IP.

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If you have multiple containers you want to route via PIA, have a look here: https://github.com/qdm12/private-internet-access-docker

7

Thanks for all of the help so far.

I’ve have the PIA container up and running. Now I need help figuring out how to route my qbittorrent traffic through the PIA container. My qbittorent container already uses the --net parameter for reverse proxy with the linuxserver/letsencrypt container.

So now what’s the best way to route through the PIA container?

Thanks again!