seedbox/README.md

Seedbox

A collection of Dockerfiles and a docker-compose configuration to set up a seedbox and personal media server.

Credits

Main credits go to Kelvin Chen who started the development of its own seedbox using Docker. Mine was first a fork of Kelvin's one, but I made some serious changes in the code and plan to add even more tools and services that keeping this project as a fork started to have less sense as code diverged.

Accessing a Service's Web Interface

Go to x.hostname where x is the service you want to access. Included services are:

• deluge
• sonarr
• jackett (included in the sonarr image)
• plex
• h5ai (service accessible via explore.hostname)

The front-end reverse proxy routes based on the lowest level subdomain (e.g. deluge.example.com would route to deluge). Since this is how the router works, it is recommended for you to get a top level domain. If you do not have one, you can edit your domains locally by changing your hosts file or use a browser plugin that changes the host header.

Note: Plex is also available directly through the 32400 port without going through the reverse proxy. You will have to sign in with your plex.tv account if you do this.

Dependencies

• Docker >= 1.13.0
  • Install guidelines for Ubuntu 16.04: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-and-use-docker-on-ubuntu-16-04
• Docker Compose >=v1.10.0
  • Install guidelines for Ubuntu 16.04: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-docker-compose-on-ubuntu-16-04
• local-persist Docker plugin: installed directly on host (not in container). This is a volume plugin that extends the default local driver’s functionality by allowing you specify a mountpoint anywhere on the host, which enables the files to always persist, even if the volume is removed via `docker volume rm. Use systemd install for Ubuntu 16.04.

Before running, please create the volumes which will be statically mapped to the ones on the host:

$ sudo su -c "cd /; mkdir data; cd data; mkdir config; mkdir torrents"

Running

$ docker-compose pull
$ docker-compose up -d

docker-compose should manage all the volumes and network setup for you. If it does not, verify that your docker and docker-compose version is updated.

Make sure you install the dependencies and finish configuration before doing this.

You may optionally build the images yourself instead of pulling by running ./build-all.sh.

Configuration

Copy the config.default file to config and change the variables as desired. The variables are all self-explanatory.

If you want to enable SSL, you would need to have your certificate and key be at /config/frontend/ssl.crt and /config/frontend/ssl.key respectively. The frontend image includes a command ssl-gen to automatically create self signed certificates for you.

PlexPass

If you own PlexPass, you can get the docker image to auto-update to the latest PlexPass version when the container starts up. This is arguably bad docker practice since containers are supposed to be immutable, but in this case, I think the convenience outweighs that. All you have to do is set the PLEX_EMAIL and PLEX_PASSWORD variables in the config file.

Where is my data?

All data is saved in the docker volumes seedbox_config or seedbox_torrents. These volumes are mapped to the config and torrents folders located in /data on the host. You can change these static paths in the docker-compose.yml file. Thanks to the local-persist Docker plugin, the data located in these volumes is persistent, meaning that volumes are not deleted, even when using the docker-compose down command. It would be a shame to loose everything by running a simple docker command ;-)