Installation

Container

For this application I used Syncthing provided by TrueCharts.

• Available under the stable train

Networking

WebUI

I personally use clusterIP, because I use ingress for all of my applications

• You may want to keep this on LoadBalancer, if you are not using ingress

Listening Ports

**These are the ports your other Syncthing service will connect to. You will need to either: **

If you are using a VPN

• Port forward this port on whatever VPN service you are using, as I have stated, I am using Mullvad
• You only need to change the first TWO ports (marked with red), not the last port

If you are NOT using a VPN

• Port forward this port on your router
• Also, if you are NOT using a VPN you can leave the two ports default, the only reason I changed my port is because Mullvad does not give you the option to choose which port to use

Storage

Configuration

The setup is default

Data

• media is the dataset I created for my media here: Folder Structure
• media is also the dataset that hosts all nested folders for my media, as shown in the tree structure here: Folder Structure
• Syncthing only needs to access the /media/download/syncthing folder, so I gave it access to that folder only
• Sonarr/Radarr will be able to hardlink files from the download directory, since they both will be seeing the folders they require

Syncthings Scope

media (dataset) 
├── download
│   ├── usenet
│   ├── syncthing <Has access to everything below here>
│   └── torrent
├── library
│   ├── movies
│   │     ├── anime
│   │     ├── kids
│   │     └── standard
│   ├── series
│   │     ├── anime
│   │     ├── kids
│   │     └── standard
│   └── music
│         ├── anime
│         ├── kids
│         └── standard
└── backup

VPN

• Using a Wireguard setup
• Added the kubernetes network, as well as my LAN network to the killswitch
• Using a VPN for this application is in no way mandatory at all, I just simply felt safer transmitting data encrypted