Running Behind a Router VPN – Can I Skip Gluetun?

Posted by foraman

Hi, thanks for all your work on this project! The media stack optimization is fantastic. I just have one question: is there a way to disable or remove the Gluetun installation option from the management panel or settings? I already have a VPN configured on my router, so I don't need an additional VPN tunnel running on top of that. I understand that I can manually remove Gluetun from Docker and edit the .env file, but I was wondering if there's a built-in option or button to disable it instead. Thanks in advance!

1 replies

Chris wrote:

Hi foraman — thank you for the kind words, and sorry this question sat unanswered for so long; it was posted in the VPNs board rather than the SparkBox one and our sweep never reached it. Honest answer: there is no built-in button for this today. qBittorrent, Sonarr, Radarr, Prowlarr and SABnzbd are all wired to run inside gluetun's own network, which is what makes the kill-switch work, so removing gluetun takes the whole download side down with it rather than falling back to your router's tunnel. I would also steer you off hand-editing the compose file, since an update re-pulls it. I am logging this as a feature request for Tom.