Transmission on Alpine Linux

docker-transmission

Transmission Daemon Docker Container Very basic fork of rlesouef/alpine-transmission to allow persistence of the config files using a shared volume.

Try it out

Change transmission-daemon config:

docker run -ti ccorsano/alpine-transmission vi /etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json

Create:

mkdir -p /var/transmission/{downloads,incomplete}

Run the container:

docker run -d --name transmission \
-p 9091:9091 \
-p 51413:51413/tcp \
-p 51413:51413/udp \
-e "USERNAME=admin" \
-e "PASSWORD=password" \
-v /var/transmission/downloads:/transmission/downloads \
-v /var/transmission/incomplete:/transmission/incomplete \
ccorsano/alpine-transmission

Connect to running container::

docker exec -ti _name_container_ /bin/sh

Build it yourself

git clone https://github.com/ccorsano/alpine-transmission.git
cd alpine-transmission
docker build -t ccorsano/alpine-transmission .

mkdir -p /data/username/transmission/{downloads,incomplete,config}

Application container, don't forget to specify a password for transmission account and local directory for the downloads:

docker run -d  --name transmission \
-p 51413:51413 -p 51413:51413/udp -p 9091:9091 \
-v /data/username/transmission/downloads:/torrents/downloads \
-v /data/username/transmission/incomplete:/torrents/incomplete \
-v /data/username/transmission/config:/etc/transmission-daemon \
ccorsano/alpine-transmission