Gluetun Docker VPN Client Review 2026: NordVPN & Surfshark
Disclosure: Some links below are affiliate links. If you sign up through them, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. So you have a home server running Plex, a Transmission container, a Home Assistant instance, and a couple of web apps you’ve containerized for fun. But all of them share your host’s IP — so your ISP sees every connection each container makes. Sure, you could install a VPN on the host. But that routes everything including local services that shouldn’t go through a tunnel. Or you could configure iptables rules and kill switches by hand. But that’s an afternoon of debugging you’d rather not repeat, trust us. In practice, a cleaner option exists, and it fits inside a single 43MB Docker container. ...