I am relatively new to composing and stacking docker containers together and I want to setup a Prowlarr, ubittorrent, Sonarr and Radarr service to load anime into my media server. However, I want to set up a vpn network and I believe Gluetun might be the best service for me to choose and I already have an Express VPN subscription. The problem comes from understanding the configuration for it and I cannot seem to see any resources that explain it so that I can understand. I get to the open vpn user and password and I get confused thinking if I have to setup express vpn through their accounts or is there another way to configure the container. I will take any help or resources, I want to build the service one container at a time instead of a stack so that I understand it better.
Does this help? gluetun-wiki/setup/providers/expressvpn.md at main · qdm12/gluetun-wiki · GitHub
Not entirely sure what you mean by building containers individually but you should probably use docker compose to make it easy to deploy and restart your containers
Whatever you do end up figuring out you do not need to put a vpn on prowlarr, sonarr or radarr just qbittorrent, it is not illegal to visit a torrent website.
I have found that but with the openvpn username and password I am unsure for what exactly is it expecting because express VPN uses an activation key instead of login credentials to verify the connection. As well as when I made an open VPN account I didn’t see a way to link express VPN because I don’t want the free plans as they are limited and I have the express subscription. So I think this configuration is not complete to my current understanding. Also as far as composing them, I don’t want to do that until I understand everything that’s going on so I’m doing it manually one by one for now(portainer is making it easier for me to view the services), but I’m sure you are correct.
I do realize that but also I believe Prowlarr or one of the other might need to be behind a vpn because I read somewhere that some ISPs prevent indexing services from running unless that was just a wrong fact.
I think you have to set up express VPN with openvpn first then use your openvpn login. Not sure, I use airvpn and wireguard with gluetun.
Re: Docker Compose - I think you’re just doing double the work by doing it manually first. I have all my services set up with compose and never did any manual containers besides the hello world. You’re not gonna be held back if you jump straight to compose
Did you try manual setup credentials? That’s for OpenVPN.
Expressvpndotcom > Setup > Manual setup.
It’s just random alphabet and numbers for both username nad password.
It is a wrong fact, it is just a website like any other.
Right, I’ll dig more into it in the morning but thank you for the advise.
I finally had time to sit down and it was in expressvpn but it took me quite a while to find but the alphabet soup username and password are credentials for open VPN which works out. Good advice.