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Docker-Compose with Mullvad Wireguard & arbitrary service

I was able to make this work really easily in native Kubernetes pods, but lots of folks had been asking questions about getting Wireguard connected to an arbitrary service properly and safely that may not have the means to use that infrastructure. Below are my notes on making that dream a reality with only compose and a few minutes of trial and error.

 

This compose shows wireguard + qbittorrent with some useful notes in-line. The crux of it though is as follows:

  1. Move the exposed ports off the qbittorrent service definition, and into the wireguard definition
  2. Add network_mode: "service:wireguard" to force the containers to use the same interfaces.
version: "3.7"
services:
  wireguard:
    image: linuxserver/wireguard
    container_name: wireguard
    cap_add:
      - NET_ADMIN
      - SYS_MODULE
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - TZ=Europe/London
    volumes:
      - /appdata/config/wireguard-test/wg:/config
      - /lib/modules:/lib/modules
    ports:
      - 6881:6881
      - 6881:6881/udp
      - 8088:8088
    sysctls:
      - net.ipv4.conf.all.src_valid_mark=1
    restart: unless-stopped

  qbittorrent:
    image: linuxserver/qbittorrent
    container_name: qbittorrent
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - TZ=Europe/London
      - UMASK_SET=022
      #Remember to make this the same port as the exposed port
      - WEBUI_PORT=8088
    volumes:
      - /appdata/config/wireguard-test/qbt:/config
      - /appdata/downloads:/downloads
    #"ports" moved to wireguard config
    restart: unless-stopped
    #use the wireguard interfaces instead
    network_mode: "service:wireguard"

In the wireguard wg0.conf configuration, you must add a route back to your host network only if you want to access things like webUIs from your host. If everything's in the same network, you can just leave this headless, too.

PostUp = ip route add 192.168.0.0/16 via $(ip route | grep default | awk '{print $3}')

[Interface]
PrivateKey = <MULLVAD KEY>
Address = <MULLVAD ADDRESS>
DNS = <MULLVAD DNS>
PostUp = ip route add 192.168.0.0/16 via $(ip route | grep default | awk '{print $3}')

[Peer]
PublicKey = jHxY2OKpxjqAwWH4r1Pb2K6xDUDt087ivxpM1KpE0Ec=
AllowedIPs = 0.0.0.0/0
Endpoint = <MULLVAD SERVER>:51820

Pretty simple, right? Here's the results of what you came here to see.

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root@f316f4f274fb:/# curl https://am.i.mullvad.net/connected
You are connected to Mullvad (server us32-wireguard). Your IP address is 206.217.205.62

 

If you're curious about the nitty gritty, here's the output from each containers interfaces & routes to give an illustration on how this works as if it were on the same host instead of dedicated network stacks:

From Wireguard

root@347666d9f127:/# ps -ef
UID        PID  PPID  C STIME TTY          TIME CMD
root         1     0  0 16:52 ?        00:00:00 s6-svscan -t0 /var/run/s6/services
root        32     1  0 16:52 ?        00:00:00 s6-supervise s6-fdholderd
root       265     1  0 16:52 ?        00:00:00 s6-supervise coredns
root       266     1  0 16:52 ?        00:00:00 s6-supervise wireguard
root       268   266  0 16:52 ?        00:00:00 bash ./run
root       270   265  0 16:52 ?        00:00:00 /app/coredns -dns.port=53
root       357   268  0 16:52 ?        00:00:00 sleep infinity
root       358     0  0 16:59 pts/0    00:00:00 bash
root       378   358  0 17:00 pts/0    00:00:00 ps -ef

root@347666d9f127:/# ip route
default via 172.24.0.1 dev eth0
172.24.0.0/16 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 172.24.0.2
192.168.0.0/16 via 172.24.0.1 dev eth0

root@347666d9f127:/# ip address
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
    inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
3: wg0: <POINTOPOINT,NOARP,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1420 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000
    link/none
    inet 10.67.165.30/32 scope global wg0
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
151: eth0@if152: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UP group default
    link/ether 02:42:ac:18:00:02 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff link-netnsid 0
    inet 172.24.0.2/16 brd 172.24.255.255 scope global eth0
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

From qbittorrent

root@347666d9f127:/# ps -ef
UID        PID  PPID  C STIME TTY          TIME CMD
root         1     0  0 16:52 ?        00:00:00 s6-svscan -t0 /var/run/s6/services
root        32     1  0 16:52 ?        00:00:00 s6-supervise s6-fdholderd
root       250     1  0 16:52 ?        00:00:00 s6-supervise qbittorrent
abc        252   250  0 16:52 ?        00:00:02 /usr/bin/qbittorrent-nox --webui-port=8088
root       276     0  0 17:00 pts/0    00:00:00 bash
root       669   276  0 17:02 pts/0    00:00:00 ps -ef

root@347666d9f127:/# ip route
default via 172.24.0.1 dev eth0
172.24.0.0/16 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 172.24.0.2
192.168.0.0/16 via 172.24.0.1 dev eth0

root@347666d9f127:/# ip address
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
    inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
3: wg0: <POINTOPOINT,NOARP,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1420 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000
    link/none
    inet 10.67.165.30/32 scope global wg0
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
151: eth0@if152: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UP group default
    link/ether 02:42:ac:18:00:02 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff link-netnsid 0
    inet 172.24.0.2/16 brd 172.24.255.255 scope global eth0
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

Sources:

https://nbsoftsolutions.com/blog/routing-select-docker-containers-through-wireguard-vpn

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