Use torrents legally and responsibly.

The BitTorrent protocol will be your primary method for acquiring media like movies and TV shows.

To facilitate this, we will construct a stack of two containers to work together: qBittorrent and Gluetun.

qBittorrent?

It’s a simple BitTorrent client that has all the functions you need. It’s free, it has no ads, it’s open source, and is actively maintained.

And… we can make its interface prettier using VueTorrent.

VueTorrent?

VueTorrent is a third-party WebUI (think “skin”) for qBittorrent made by Rémi Marseault using Vue.js - it just looks and feels much more modern and usable than qBitTorrent’s native WebUI, with a fully responsive design on both desktop and mobile.

Gluetun?

Gluetun routes traffic through your VPN provider and can prevent qBittorrent from leaking traffic outside the VPN.

VPN?

Yes, ideally you route ALL BitTorrent traffic through a third-party VPN.

1) Create download directories on NAS

Suggested:

• /mnt/nas/media/downloads

2) Docker Compose

Create: ~/docker/compose/downloads/torrents.compose.yml

services:
  gluetun:
    image: qmcgaw/gluetun:latest
    container_name: gluetun
    cap_add:
      - NET_ADMIN
    environment:
      - VPN_SERVICE_PROVIDER=YOUR_PROVIDER
      - OPENVPN_USER=YOUR_USER
      - OPENVPN_PASSWORD=YOUR_PASS
      - SERVER_COUNTRIES=United States
    ports:
      - "8082:8080"   # qBittorrent WebUI via Gluetun
      - "6881:6881"
      - "6881:6881/udp"
    restart: unless-stopped

  qbittorrent:
    image: lscr.io/linuxserver/qbittorrent:latest
    container_name: qbittorrent
    network_mode: "service:gluetun"
    depends_on:
      - gluetun
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - TZ=America/New_York
      - WEBUI_PORT=8080
    volumes:
      - ~/docker/appdata/qbittorrent:/config
      - /mnt/nas/media/downloads:/downloads
    restart: unless-stopped

  vuetorrent:
    image: ghcr.io/vuetorrent/vuetorrent:latest
    container_name: vuetorrent
    ports:
      - "3000:3000"
    restart: unless-stopped

Start:

docker compose -f ~/docker/compose/downloads/torrents.compose.yml up -d

Open:

• qBittorrent: http://<debian-ip>:8082
• VueTorrent: http://<debian-ip>:3000

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