Pi-hole in a Docker Container on a Raspberry Pi

While I was disappearing down a rabbit hole investigating unbound as a DNS Privacy server, I came across Pi-Hole – A black hole for Internet advertisements.

I’ve always used uBlock Origin for ad blocking but that is a per client thing which is a bit of a hassle.

Pi-hole provides ad blocking for all clients on the network, seamlessly.  I just configure DNS on each client, via DHCP, to point towards the Pi-Hole server.

Obviously, I love Docker so it’s in a Docker Container on a Raspberry Pi.

Currently, I’ve sacrificed DNS privacy but I’ll work on that later in terms of getting Pi-hole to send all DNS queries through my own DNS server.

This is how I implemented it.  Obviously, these aren’t detailed instructions but more of a reference to jog my memory if I need it!

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Note: Substitute the IP address of the host that the Container is running on for ${IP} and ${IPv6}
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docker run -d \
    --name=pihole \
    --hostname=pihole \
    -p 53:53/tcp -p 53:53/udp -p 80:80 \
    -e ServerIP="${IP}" \
    -e ServerIPv6="${IPv6}" \
    -v pihole_data_1:/etc/pihole/ \
    -v pihole_data_2:/etc/dnsmasq.d/ \
    --restart=unless-stopped \
    pihole/pihole:v4.0_armhf