VPN client in a thin Docker container for multiple VPN providers, written in Go, and using OpenVPN or Wireguard, DNS over TLS, with a few proxy servers built-in. - GitHub - qdm12/gluetun: VPN clien...
But you can just do that with a regular Wireguard container. Does this one do anything special? I haven’t looked into it yet but I guess it’s pre-configured for some providers?
It’s a vpn client on steroids that creates a VPN network (based on your provider) which you can then use to run docker containers inside of, as well as create http & shadowsocks proxies for your VPN network etc.
To build on this since I have this setup now, it basically creates a new docker network that you can attach containers to, and have all of their traffic routed through it. Basically I have the gluetun container running, then in my qbittorrent docked-compose I have network_mode: "container:gluetun".
One thing to watch out for is you have to specify the ports in the gluetun docked-compose instead of in each docked-compose.
Additionally, if gluetun shuts down and the apps using it don’t, you’ll have to restart the apps using it. Not an issue if it’s all in the same docker-compose file, but I like separating docker-compose services so I have qbittorrent/docker-compose.yml and gluetun/docker-compose.yml
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Couldn’t understand if it’s a client in the sense other docker containers can use it, or what. Could somebody please clarify?
It’s a docker container that runs an OpenVPN/Wireguard client in order to provide a connection for other containers, yes.
But you can just do that with a regular Wireguard container. Does this one do anything special? I haven’t looked into it yet but I guess it’s pre-configured for some providers?
It’s a vpn client on steroids that creates a VPN network (based on your provider) which you can then use to run docker containers inside of, as well as create http & shadowsocks proxies for your VPN network etc.
To build on this since I have this setup now, it basically creates a new docker network that you can attach containers to, and have all of their traffic routed through it. Basically I have the gluetun container running, then in my qbittorrent docked-compose I have
network_mode: "container:gluetun".One thing to watch out for is you have to specify the ports in the gluetun docked-compose instead of in each docked-compose.
Additionally, if gluetun shuts down and the apps using it don’t, you’ll have to restart the apps using it. Not an issue if it’s all in the same docker-compose file, but I like separating docker-compose services so I have qbittorrent/docker-compose.yml and gluetun/docker-compose.yml