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Document the Mac *arr/qBittorrent stack (VM placement, gluetun credential gate, socat LaunchAgents, PBKDF2 qB seed) and log the day: dankserver recovery + full quadlet cutover of the six media services, the frankbook skip-propagation/PBKDF2 handler fix, the 7-service frankbook deploy, and the jellyfin GPU-parity finding.
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type: reference
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description: FrankBook-Pro — the Mac mini running the *arr stack + qBittorrent inside a podman machine VM, gluetun-gated
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tags: [frankbook-pro, mac, arr, qbittorrent, gluetun, wireguard, podman-machine]
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timestamp: 2026-09-01
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---
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# FrankBook-Pro
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FrankBook-Pro (192.168.0.112, macOS x86_64, Intel) runs the *arr automation
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stack and qBittorrent inside a **podman machine** VM (Fedora CoreOS-style
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`core` user). Seven quadlet units live in `frankbook-pro/<svc>/quadlet/`:
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`gluetun`, `qbittorrent`, `prowlarr`, `sonarr`, `radarr`, `lidarr`, `readarr`.
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## Why a VM, and why inside it
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- macOS podman runs containers inside a VM; quadlet units are installed in the
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VM (`/home/core/.config/containers/systemd/`) via `podman machine ssh`.
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- `/Volumes/COMPLETE` (review disk) and `/Volumes/INCOMPLETE` (in-progress
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disk) are virtiofs-mounted into the VM, so qBittorrent writes straight to
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the same disks the human review workflow uses.
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- Grab-only stack: the arrs never auto-import; nothing writes to the entropy
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volume. Completed files land in `/Volumes/COMPLETE/Finished Torrents`.
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## WireGuard gate (gluetun)
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qBittorrent downloads through gluetun (netns share); the arrs run without it.
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Until `/home/core/Containers/gluetun/env` contains the WireGuard credentials
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(a second peer for the Mac — reusing Dankclaw's key would flip its tunnel and
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kill SearXNG), `deploy_frankbook_stack` **skips** gluetun and qbittorrent
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with instructions and deploys the five arrs anyway. The qB WebUI port stays
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unpublished by design; the e2e torrent test waits on the credentials.
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## Deploy flow
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Same deployer as every host: `./scripts/deploy.sh frankbook-pro --service
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<svc>` from Dankware. The Mac-side handler (`deploy_frankbook_stack` in
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`scripts/deploy-remote.sh`) pipes unit files + a seed script through
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`podman machine ssh bash -s`, seeds qBittorrent's first-boot config once
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(marker file `qbit-seeded`), restarts the selected unit inside the VM, and
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health-checks its published port on Mac loopback.
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## LAN reachability
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gvproxy forwards published ports to Mac loopback only. LaunchAgents
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(`local.fwd.*` in `~/Library/LaunchAgents`) run socat forwarders binding the
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LAN IP (192.168.0.112) for arr UIs (9696/8989/7878/8686/8787), the qB WebUI
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(8080, inert until the tunnel is up), and the BitTorrent port 6881 tcp+udp.
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## qBittorrent seed (first boot, inside the VM)
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- `WebUI\Password` is a **PBKDF2** `@ByteArray(salt:hash)`
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(PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA512, 100k iterations, 64 bytes) — qB ≥ 4.2 ignores
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plaintext. The plaintext lives in `/home/core/Containers/qbittorrent/env`
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(mode 600, VM-local) for Prowlarr wiring.
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- `HostHeaderValidation=false` + `ServerDomains=*`: the socat forwarder
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preserves the LAN `Host` header, which would otherwise be rejected.
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- `categories.json` pre-creates `Finished Torrents`, `lidarr`, `radarr`,
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`tv-sonarr` with save_path `/Volumes/COMPLETE/Finished Torrents`.
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- `Session\DefaultSavePath=/Volumes/COMPLETE`,
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`Session\TempPath=/Volumes/INCOMPLETE/incomplete` (two-disk layout).
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# Citations
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- Plan: `local://podman-standardization-arr-migration-plan.md` (session 2026-09-01)
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- Units: `frankbook-pro/*/quadlet/*.container`, seam `tests/frankbook_quadlet.bats`
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- Handler: `deploy_frankbook_stack`, `scripts/deploy-remote.sh`
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