dbarton/utorrent repository overview

⁠About

Docker image to run the utorrent server⁠ in a containerized environment.

The docker image currently supports:

• running utorrent under its own user (not root)
• changing of the UID and GID for the utorrent user

⁠Run

⁠Run via Docker CLI client

To run the utorrent container you can execute:

docker run --name sickbeard -v <datadir path>:/datadir -v <media path>:/media -p 8080:8080 dbarton/utorrent

Open a browser and point your to http://my-docker-host:8080/gui⁠ (Login: admin/)

⁠Run via Docker Compose

You can also run the utorrent container by using Docker Compose⁠.

If you've cloned the git repository⁠ you can build and run the Docker container locally (without the Docker Hub):

docker-compose up -d

If you want to use the Docker Hub image within your existing Docker Compose file you can use the following YAML snippet:

utorrent:
    image: "dbarton/utorrent"
    container_name: "utorrent"
    volumes:
        - "<settings path>:/settings"
        - "<media path>:/media"
    ports:
        - "8080:8080"
        - "6881:6881"
    restart: always

⁠Configuration

⁠Volumes

Please mount the following volumes inside your utorrent container:

• /settings: Holds all the utorrent settings file
• /media: Directory for your downloaded media

⁠UID and GID

By default utorrent runs with user ID and group ID 666. If you want to run utorrent with different ID's you've to set the UTORRENT_UID and/or UTORRENT_GID environment variables, for example:

UTORRENT_UID=1234
UTORRENT_GID=1234