I did a big archival project last year, and ripped all 700 or so DVDs/Blu-rays I own. Ngl, I had originally planned on just having them all in a big media folder and picking out whatever I wanted to watch that way. Fortunately, I discovered Jellyfin, and went with that instead.

So I bought a mini pc to run Ubuntu server on, and I just installed Jellyfin directly there. Eventually I decided to try hosting a few other services (like Home Assistant and BookLore (R.I.P.)), which I did through Docker.

So I'm wondering, should I be running Jellyfin through Docker as well? Are there advantages to running Jellyfin through Docker as opposed to installed directly on the server? Would transitioning my Jellyfin instance to Docker be a complicated process (bearing in mind that I'm new and dumb)?

Thanks for any assistance.

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[–] nile_istic@lemmy.world [S] 1 point 7 months ago (2 children)

Bearing that in mind, I now have a new problem, which is that apparently none of my containers actually have internet access? I hadn't noticed because I mostly just run local media servers, and I tend to clean up all the metadata before I upload anything (i.e. I usually clean up my ebooks in Calibre before I send them to BookLore, so I've never had to actually use BookLore to fetch anything from the web).

Only way I was able to get internet access in any of my containers was adding

network_mode: "host"

to the docker-compose.yml files, which, if I'm understanding correctly, negates the point of isolating network services, no? So something is broken somewhere but I have no idea what it is or how to fix it, so I guess my JF server is staying on bare metal for now lol

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[–] nile_istic@lemmy.world [S] 1 point 7 months ago

Jellyfin isn't running in a docker container, so it's working fine. I've just noticed that everything I am running in a container doesn't have network access, unless I change network mode to host in that container's compose yml. So I guess docker's network bridge isn't configured correctly? Which makes sense, as I have basically no idea what I'm doing lmao. So until I figure out what's going on there, I think I'll just let my JF server run as is. I'd prefer it in a container I think, but not before I figure out what exactly I broke.

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