BitTorrent Sync Dockerfile

This will build a docker image that runs BitTorrent Sync.

Getting the image

There are various ways to get the image onto your system:

The preferred way (but using most bandwidth for the initial image) is to get our docker trusted build like this:

docker pull kartoza/btsync

To build the image yourself without apt-cacher (also consumes more bandwidth since deb packages need to be refetched each time you build) do:

docker build -t kartoza/btsync git://github.com/kartoza/docker-btsync

To build with apt-cache (and minimised download requirements) do you need to clone this repo locally first and modify the contents of 71-apt-cacher-ng to match your cacher host. Then build using a local url instead of directly from github.

git clone git://github.com/kartoza/docker-btsync

Now edit 71-apt-cacher-ng then do:

docker build -t kartoza/btsync .

Run

To create a running container do:

docker run --name "myname.kartoza.com" \
	--restart=always \
	--hostname="myname.kartoza.com" \
	-e SECRET=123456 \
	-e DEVICE=somedevice.kartoza.com \
	-v /home/blah/yourshare:/web \
	-d -t kartoza/btsync

You should use the following environment variables to pass a user DEVICE name (it will show up as this in your docker sync lists) and SECRET (use a read only secret normally).

• -e SECRET=
• -e DEVICE=

We recommend that you share your storage directory as a volume mounted as /web into the container - this will allow you to destroy and recreate the container without losing you synced data.

Tutorial

More details are available in this tutorial.