Release a tutorial to make Invidious requests data from YouTube through a VPN using Gluetun (#575)

Author: TheFrenchGhosty

docs/gluetun.md

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+# Make Invidious requests data from YouTube through a VPN using Gluetun (in case your IP is blocked)
+
+## Create the docker network (must be done outside of the compose file):
+
+```
+docker network create --subnet=172.80.0.0/16 gluetun_network
+```
+
+Note: We're not using the Gluetun default of 172.18.0.0/16, because it might already be used which causes Gluetun to not start with the error `Error response from daemon: invalid pool request: Pool overlaps with other one on this address space`, if you have this issue with 172.80.0.0/16 just use a number higher than "80" (at the second byte) and apply the rest of the documentation accordingly
+
+
+## Create the compose file for Gluetun
+
+- Global setup: https://github.com/qdm12/gluetun-wiki/tree/main/setup
+
+- Provider setup: https://github.com/qdm12/gluetun-wiki/tree/main/setup/providers
+
+```
+services:
+  gluetun:
+    image: ghcr.io/qdm12/gluetun
+    container_name: gluetun
+    cap_add:
+      - NET_ADMIN
+    devices:
+      - /dev/net/tun:/dev/net/tun
+    ports:
+#      - 8888:8888/tcp # HTTP proxy # Useless
+#      - 8388:8388/tcp # Shadowsocks # Useless
+#      - 8388:8388/udp # Shadowsocks # Useless
+      - "127.0.0.1:3000:3000" # Invidious (use the Invidious ports configuration)
+    volumes:
+      - /docker/gluetun/data:/gluetun
+    environment:
+      - VPN_SERVICE_PROVIDER=<REDACTED>
+      - VPN_TYPE=openvpn # Use openvpn or wireguard
+      - OPENVPN_USER=<REDACTED>
+      - OPENVPN_PASSWORD=<REDACTED>
+      - SERVER_COUNTRIES=Germany # Use your server location
+      - UPDATER_PERIOD=24h
+      - TZ=Europe/Paris # Use your timezone
+    networks:
+      gluetun_network:
+
+networks:
+  gluetun_network:
+    external: true
+```
+
+## Make Invidious use gluetun
+
+
+Add this to your DB:
+
+```
+    networks:
+      gluetun_network:
+        ipv4_address: 172.80.0.22
+```
+
+Add this to the end of your compose (to make the Invidious-Postgres stack connect to gluetun):
+
+```
+networks:
+  gluetun_network:
+    external: true
+```
+
+
+Add this to the Invidious container:
+
+```
+    network_mode: "container:gluetun"
+```
+
+Comment out the "- ports:" of the Invidious container (gluetun replaces it, reason why we configured it with the same value)
+
+
+Update the Invidious config to use the new database address (since the network is "different", using the hostname wont work):
+
+```
+      INVIDIOUS_CONFIG: |
+        db:
+          dbname: invidious
+          user: kemal
+          password: <REDACTED>
+          host: 172.80.0.22
+          port: 5432
+```

docs/index.md

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 - [NGINX reverse proxy setup](./nginx.md)
 - [Caddy reverse proxy setup](./caddy.md)
 - [Apache2 reverse proxy setup](./apache2.md)
+- [Make Invidious requests data from YouTube through a VPN using Gluetun (in case your IP is blocked)](./gluetun.md)
 - [Database maintenance](./db-maintenance.md)
 - [CAPTCHA bug on Debian and Ubuntu](./captcha-bug.md)
 - [Registering users manually](./register-user.md)

mkdocs.yml

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     - 'nginx.md'
     - 'caddy.md'
     - 'apache2.md'
+    - 'gluetun.md'
     - 'db-maintenance.md'
     - 'captcha-bug.md'
     - 'register-user.md'