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title: "OpenVPN Container"
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date: 2020-04-30T23:20:49-04:00
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draft: false
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tags: ["containers"]
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---
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Instead of configuring multiple containers to use a VPN, we can setup a VPN container and route the other containers traffic through this container. This post will outline how to do that with [dperson's OpenVPN Container](https://github.com/dperson/openvpn-client).
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I'm a huge fan of docker-compose, so here we go:
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```yaml
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version: "3.3"
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services:
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openvpn-client:
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image: dperson/openvpn-client
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cap_add:
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- net_admin
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security_opt:
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- label:disable
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container_name: openvpn-client
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hostname: openvpn-client
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environment:
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- PUID=1000
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- PGID=1000
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volumes:
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- /dev/net:/dev/net:z
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- /volumes/openvpn-client/vpn/:/vpn
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restart: always
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```
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The `net_admin` capability according to the documentation "perform various network-related operations". This would make sense since an additional network interface is configured for a VPN connection. The `label:disable` definition is to disable label confinement.
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In this setup, you will need to put the `.ovpn` profile that you wish to connect to under the `/volumes/openvpn-client/vpn/` directory.
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## (Optional) Username/Password Setup
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In the event you need a username and password to connect, create a file called `pass.txt` in the same directory as your ovpn profile. The file `pass.txt` will contain the username in the first line and the password in the second line. Then in your ovpn profile make sure you have a line that says `auth-user-pass pass.txt`.
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## Routing Traffic through VPN
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Let's say your ISP throttles torrent connections and you want to route your `qBittorrent` container so that you can download Linux distributions faster. Here's how you can define it in the docker-compose file.
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```yaml
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qbittorrent:
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image: linuxserver/qbittorrent
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container_name: qbittorrent
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environment:
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- PUID=1000
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- PGID=1000
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- UMASK_SET=022
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- WEBUI_PORT=8000
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volumes:
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- /volumes/qbittorrent/config:/config
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- /volumes/qbittorrent/downloads:/downloads
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network_mode: service:openvpn-client
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restart: always
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```
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## Network Workarounds
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Sadly as of the time of writing, routing a container's traffic makes it lose its ability to belong to a network. I knocked into this when I tried accessing the qBittorrent API. So for the sake of example, if you want to connect to qbittorrent, you need to route the traffic to the openvpn-client container at port 8000 which we specified earlier to be the webui port of qbittorrent.
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