Docker Compose Media Containers Arrs

Configuration

Other tutorials I found left out a torrent downloader in the container stack. This stack includes everything but a media server (which I assume most have an already running server of i.e. Plex.tv, Jellyfin, etc.)

Directory File Structure

My naming and structure might be confusing because I use media as the all containing folder instead of data because to me media just sounded more inline with what will live in this directory

/mnt/VOLUME/media
├── library
│   ├── books
│   ├── movies
│   ├── music
│   └── tv
└── trnts
    ├── radarr
    └── tv-sonarr

libary is the directory a media player reads, and trnts is assentially qBittorrent's "download" folder. Other tutorials have a matching set of movies, music, tv folders, but in my case the torrent downloader automatically created these radarr, tv-sonarr apps and the hardlinks continued to work sooo... 🤷‍♀️

Create Wireguard Config

With my VPN provider TorGuard I can create one off Wireguard config files. I'll copy paste this config into ./gluten/wg0.conf

compose.yml

services:

  prowlarr: #indexer manager for Sonarr & Radarr
    image: linuxserver/prowlarr:latest
    container_name: prowlarr
    environment:
      - PUID=$PUID
      - PGID=$PGID
      - TZ=$TZ
    volumes:
      - ./prowlarr:/config
    ports:
      - 9696:9696
    restart: unless-stopped
    networks:
      - this
      

  flaresolverr:
    image: flaresolverr/flaresolverr:latest
    container_name: flaresolverr
    environment:
      - LOG_LEVEL=${LOG_LEVEL:-info}
      - LOG_HTML=${LOG_HTML:-false}
      - CAPTCHA_SOLVER=${CAPTCHA_SOLVER:-none}
      - TZ=$TZ
    ports:
      - "8191:8191"
    restart: unless-stopped
    networks:
      - this

  radarr: #movie search agent
    image: linuxserver/radarr:latest
    container_name: radarr
    environment:
      - PUID=$PUID
      - PGID=$PGID
      - TZ=$TZ
      - UMASK=022
    volumes:
      - ./radarr:/config
      - $MEDIADIR:/media
      - $PLEXMEDIA:/plexmedia
    ports:
      - 7878:7878
    restart: unless-stopped
    networks:
      - this
      

  sonarr: #TV show search agent
    image: linuxserver/sonarr:latest
    container_name: sonarr
    environment:
      - PUID=$PUID
      - PGID=$PGID
      - TZ=$TZ
      - UMASK=022
    volumes:
      - ./sonarr:/config
      - $MEDIADIR:/media
    ports:
      - 8989:8989  
    restart: unless-stopped
    networks:
      - this
      

  lidarr:
    image: linuxserver/lidarr:latest
    container_name: lidarr
    environment:
      - PUID=$PUID
      - PGID=$PGID
      - TZ=$TZ
      - UMASK=022
    volumes:
      - ./lidarr:/config
      - $MEDIADIR:/media
    ports:
      - 8686:8686
    restart: unless-stopped
    networks:
      - this
      
  qbittorrent:
    container_name: qbittarrent
    image: linuxserver/qbittorrent:latest
    restart: unless-stopped
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - TZ=$TZ
      - WEBUI_PORT=8080
      - TORRENTING_PORT=6881
    volumes:
      - ./qbittorrent/config:/config
      - $MEDIADIR:/media
      - ./qbittorrent/webui-cjratliff:/webui
    ##? since I'm routing through gluten, I expose qb webui through gluten
    # ports:
    #   - 8080:8080
    #   - 6881:6881
    #   - 6881:6881/udp
    network_mode: "service:gluetun"
    depends_on:
      - gluetun
    # networks:
    #   - this

  gluetun:
    image: qmcgaw/gluetun
    container_name: gluetun
    restart: unless-stopped
    cap_add:
      - NET_ADMIN
    environment:
      - VPN_SERVICE_PROVIDER=custom
      - VPN_TYPE=wireguard
      - TZ=$TZ
    ports:
      - "8080:8080/tcp" # Qbittorrent Web UI
    volumes:
      # - /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
      - ./gluten/wg0.conf:/gluetun/wireguard/wg0.conf

  ##? using gluten instead with wireguard config
  # wireguard:
  #   container_name: wireguard
  #   image: lscr.io/linuxserver/wireguard
  #   restart: unless-stopped
  #   cap_add:
  #     - NET_ADMIN
  #     - SYS_MODULE
  #   environment:
  #     - PUID=1000
  #     - PGID=1000
  #     - TZ=Etc/UTC
  #   volumes:
  #     - ./wireguard/config:/config
  #     - ./wireguard/lib/modules:/lib/modules #optional
  #   ports:
  #     - 8080:8080
  #   sysctls:
  #     - net.ipv4.conf.all.src_valid_mark=1
      

networks:
  this:
    name: arr-network
    driver: bridge

I left # proxy notes in there. That way you could connect everything by docker's internal DNS, but to keep things simple, I'm just exposing the ports to the local host

.env

PUID=1000 #change to your user's PUID
PGID=100 #change to your user's PGID
TZ=America/Chicago #change to your timezone location
MEDIADIR=/mnt/VOLUME1/media

!info**

VOLUME1 should be replaced by your path needs.

Bind Torrent app with VPN network

In QBit settings advanced tab look for Network Interface and select tun0

Check if VPN Traffic is working

check if VPN is working

docker logs gluetun
docker exec -it qbittarrent bash
curl -sS https://ipinfo.io/json

IP Leak Check website

https://ipleak.net/

Local DNS

before you go and link the containers up via each web UI. Check out my Pretty URLS for Local DNS Records, especially if you're a Pi-hole user.

VPN

How to torrent safely with a VPN - Proton VPN Support

Trouble Shooting

I had an error in Sonarr/Radarr/Ectrr

your downloader qbittorrent does not have a path /downloads/torrents

Looks like the paths have to be exactly the same for each container in the stack

Anime Dubs vs Subs

I'd prefer to have an English dub of an Anime if one exists. Looks like there is a way to do it via 'Category' or 'Tags'. Another comment mentions weighting words?

Do I need to route Indexers to VPN?

Your indexer containers like Sonarr and Radarr do not need to be encrypted - Reddit

Credits

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