selfhosted-apps-docker/jellyfin

Jellyfin in docker

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Purpose & Overview

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Stream movies/tv-shows/music to a browser, or a large selection of devices and services.

• Official site
• Github
• DockerHub

Jellyfin if a free media system, an alternative to proprietary Plex.
The core server side is written in C#, web client in Javascript, and a number of other clients written in various languages and frameworks.

Starting point for me was this viggy96 repo

Files and directory structure

/mnt/
└── bigdisk/
    ├── tv/
    ├── movies/
    └── music/
/home/
└── ~/
    └── docker/
        └── jellyfin/
            ├── jellyfin-cache/
            ├── jellyfin-config/
            ├── transcodes/
            ├── .env
            ├── docker-compose.yml
            └── jellyfin-backup-script.sh

• /mnt/bigdisk/... - a mounted media storage share
• jellyfin-cache/ - cache
• jellyfin-config/ - configuration
• transcodes/ - transcoded video storage
• .env - a file containing environment variables for docker compose
• docker-compose.yml - a docker compose file, telling docker how to run the containers
• jellyfin-backup-script.sh - a backup script if you want it

You only need to provide the files.
The directories are created by docker compose on the first run.

docker-compose

The media are mounted in read only mode.

docker-compose.yml

services:

  jellyfin:
    image: jellyfin/jellyfin:latest
    container_name: jellyfin
    hostname: jellyfin
    restart: unless-stopped
    env_file: .env
    devices:
      - /dev/dri
    volumes:
      - ./transcodes/:/transcodes
      - ./jellyfin-config:/config
      - ./jellyfin-cache:/cache
      - /mnt/bigdisk/serialy:/media/video:ro
      - /mnt/bigdisk/mp3/moje:/media/music:ro
    expose:
      - 8096
    ports:
      - 1900:1900/udp

networks:
  default:
    name: $DOCKER_MY_NETWORK
    external: true

.env

# GENERAL
MY_DOMAIN=example.com
DOCKER_MY_NETWORK=caddy_net
TZ=Europe/Bratislava

All containers must be on the same network.
Which is named in the .env file.
If one does not exist yet: docker network create caddy_net

Reverse proxy

Caddy is used, details here.

Caddyfile

jellyfin.{$MY_DOMAIN} {
    reverse_proxy jellyfin:8096
}

First run

Specifics of my setup

• no long term use yet

• no gpu, so no experience with hw transcoding

• media files are stored and shared on trunas scale VM and mounted directly on the docker host using systemd mounts, instead of fstab or autofs.

  /etc/systemd/system/mnt-bigdisk.mount

  [Unit]
  Description=12TB truenas mount
  
  [Mount]
  What=//10.0.19.19/Dataset-01
  Where=/mnt/bigdisk
  Type=cifs
  Options=ro,username=ja,password=qq,file_mode=0700,dir_mode=0700,uid=1000
  DirectoryMode=0700
  
  [Install]
  WantedBy=multi-user.target
  

  /etc/systemd/system/mnt-bigdisk.automount

  [Unit]
  Description=12TB truenas mount
  
  [Automount]
  Where=/mnt/bigdisk
  
  [Install]
  WantedBy=multi-user.target
  

  to automount on boot - sudo systemctl start mnt-bigdisk.automount

Update

Manual image update:

• docker-compose pull
  
• docker-compose up -d
  
• docker image prune

Backup and restore

Backup

Using borg that makes daily snapshot of the entire directory.

Restore

• down the bookstack containers docker-compose down
  
• delete the entire bookstack directory
  
• from the backup copy back the bookstack directory
  
• start the containers docker-compose up -d

Backup of just user data

dont care