Installation
You can choose one of the following installation options:
- Run as standalone binary
- Run as docker container
- Kubernetes with helm chart
Prepare your configuration
Blocky supports single or multiple YAML files as configuration. Create new config.yaml
with your configuration (
see Configuration for more details and all configuration options).
Simple configuration file, which enables only basic features:
upstream:
default:
- 46.182.19.48
- 80.241.218.68
- tcp-tls:fdns1.dismail.de:853
- https://dns.digitale-gesellschaft.ch/dns-query
blocking:
blackLists:
ads:
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StevenBlack/hosts/master/hosts
clientGroupsBlock:
default:
- ads
port: 53
httpPort: 4000
Run as standalone binary
Download the binary file from GitHub for your architecture and
run ./blocky --config config.yml
.
Warning
Please be aware, if you want to use port 53 or 953 on Linux you should add CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE capability to the binary or run with root privileges (running as root is not recommended).
Run with docker
Alternative registry
Blocky docker images are deployed to DockerHub (spx01/blocky
) and GitHub Container Registry (ghcr.io/0xerr0r/blocky
)
.
Parameters
You can define the location of the config file in the container with environment variable "BLOCKY_CONFIG_FILE". Default value is "/app/config.yml".
Docker from command line
Execute following command from the command line:
docker run --name blocky -v /path/to/config.yml:/app/config.yml -p 4000:4000 -p 53:53/udp spx01/blocky
Run with docker-compose
Create following docker-compose.yml
file
version: "2.1"
services:
blocky:
image: spx01/blocky
container_name: blocky
restart: unless-stopped
# Optional the instance hostname for logging purpose
hostname: blocky-hostname
ports:
- "53:53/tcp"
- "53:53/udp"
- "4000:4000/tcp"
environment:
- TZ=Europe/Berlin # Optional to synchronize the log timestamp with host
volumes:
# Optional to synchronize the log timestamp with host
- /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
# config file
- ./config.yml:/app/config.yml
and start docker container with
docker-compose up -d
Advanced setup
Following example shows, how to run blocky in a docker container and store query logs on a SAMBA share. Local black and whitelists directories are mounted as volume. You can create own black or whitelists in these directories and define the path like '/app/whitelists/whitelist.txt' in the config file.
Example
version: "2.1"
services:
blocky:
image: spx01/blocky
container_name: blocky
restart: unless-stopped
ports:
- "53:53/tcp"
- "53:53/udp"
- "4000:4000/tcp" # Prometheus stats (if enabled).
environment:
- TZ=Europe/Berlin
volumes:
# config file
- ./config.yml:/app/config.yml
# write query logs in this volume
- queryLogs:/logs
# put your custom white and blacklists in these directories
- ./blacklists:/app/blacklists/
- ./whitelists:/app/whitelists/
volumes:
queryLogs:
driver: local
driver_opts:
type: cifs
o: username=USER,password=PASSWORD,rw
device: //NAS_HOSTNAME/blocky
Multiple configuration files
For complex setups, splitting the configuration between multiple YAML files might be desired. In this case, folder containing YAML files is passed on startup, Blocky will join all the files.
./blocky --config ./config/
Warning
Blocky simply joins the multiple YAML files. If a directive (e.g. upstream
) is repeated in multiple files, the configuration will not load and start will fail.
Other installation types
Warning
These projects are maintained by other people.
Web UI
Blocky Frontend provides a Web UI to control blocky. See linked project for installation instructions.
Run with helm chart on Kubernetes
See this repo, the documentation and the configuration instructions for details about running blocky via helm in kubernetes.
Run as an App for TrueNAS SCALE
You can find the App in the TrueCharts App Catalog or read the documentation and configuration instructions for details about running blocky as a native TrueNAS SCALE App.
AUR package for Arch Linux
See https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/blocky/
Package for Alpine Linux
See https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/package/edge/testing/x86/blocky
Installation script for CentOS/Fedora
See https://github.com/m0zgen/blocky-installer
Package for FreeBSD
See https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=blocky&stype=all