Transmission with openvpn on Kubernetes
The files here are intended to be a reference point for setting up transmission with openvpn on a kubernetes cluster. I provide these as-is, with less absolute zero support. If you'd like to make an improvement to the resources or documentation, PRs are certainly welcome.
This setup uses the haugene/transmission-openvpn docker image which has over 10 million downloads on docker hub. I have found to be quite stable and have been using for at least a year. You can find documentation (worth reading) for that project in their github repo.
Using these examples
Applying the examples here as-is will not work.
I've scrubbed out configuration unique to the two clusters I'm running transmission in. You'll need to look through the examples and edit where appropriate. This example uses a central NFS server to host all Transmission data. you could of course use any other volume type available in your cluster. The ingress example does not configure TLS and is restricted to a local IP subnet.
Some specific things you should adjust or confirm for your purposes:
- Ingress
- Hostname
- Service Name
- IP restrictions
- Service
- Name
- Type
- Deployment
- Secret name
- Config name
- data volume type, server, path
- Config
- openvpn provider (see docs here)
- local network
- openvpn config
- Secret (will need to be base64 encoded)
- username
- password
FAQ
Have you considered making this a helm chart?
Briefly. Not going to. I don't have the time to maintain a helm chart for this. I only provide this in hopes of saving someone time by having a working example to consult.
Are there other ways to do this?
Yes.
Can you help me install this on my cluster?
No.
It doesn't work.
Ok.
I used these examples, can I make a tweak to make it easier for the next person to use?
Absolutely. PRs are welcome.