Jellyfin is everyone’s favourite open-source multimedia player. This guide goes over how to install it as a Podman Quadlet. This assumes you already have Podman setup for Quadlets. Follow this guide to setup Podman for Quadlets. Create the container First, create and edit /etc/containers/systemd/jellyfin.container as sudo and paste the following. [Unit] Description=Podman - Jellyfin Wants=network-online.target After=network-online.target [Container] Image=lscr.io/linuxserver/jellyfin:latest AutoUpdate=registry ContainerName=jellyfin Environment=PUID={PUID} # `id -u` to get value needed Environment=PGID={PGID} # `id -g` to get value needed Environment=TZ=America/St_Johns # Change to your time zone Volume={JELLYFIN_CONFIG}:/config Volume={MOVIE_DIR}:/movies Volume={TV_DIR}:/tv PublishPort=8096:8096 PublishPort=8920:8920 PublishPort=7359:7359/udp PublishPort=1900:1900/udp [Service] Restart=always TimeoutStartSec=900 [Install] WantedBy=default.
  • exu@feditown.comEnglish
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    1 month ago

    I’ve been managing my containers using the older mechanism (systemd-generate) since I started and it’s great. You get the reliable service start of systemd and its management interface. Monitoring is consistent with all your other services and you have your logs in exactly one location.

    I really wouldn’t want a separate interface or service manager just because I’m running containers.

    • Lem453@lemmy.caEnglish
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      1 month ago

      Do you run other things on your system other than containers? I have a VM that only runs containers so it really doesn’t do anything else with systemd apart from the basics so I’m curious if there would be any advantage to me switching.

      • exu@feditown.comEnglish
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        1 month ago

        Most VMs only run containers, but I have supporting services on every host as well. Stuff like the mesh VPN, monitoring agent or firewall.
        If I want a quick overview, a quick systemctl status will tell me everything I need to know.

          • exu@feditown.comEnglish
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            1 month ago

            I use Yggdrasil now with a whitelist of public keys. Though I’m thinking about redoing my architecture in general to make key distribution easier, have more automated DNS entries and also use the tunnel for any node to node communication.

            Before that I tried Tailscale with Headscale, but I didn’t want to have a single node responsible for the network and discovery.

            • barsquid@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              1 month ago

              That’s very interesting. Once you connect something to your mesh you can access the rest of the mesh by IP? What is the gateway in that case?