Installing Jellyfin as a Podman Quadlet

Tue, 01 Oct 2024 17:59:03 -0230

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.target

Change the values to the ones that apply to you. Start and check the container.

Setting Up Podman and Quadlets

Mon, 30 Sep 2024 18:57:10 -0230

In this guide, I’ll walk you through setting up Podman and Quadlets. While this is the method that worked for me, I’m always open to improvements and suggestions. Future posts will cover how to configure specific Quadlets in detail.

Install Podman

sudo apt -y install podman

For other operation systems, check here

Create a Quadlet

Create the file /etc/containers/systemd/postgres.container and paste in the following data as sudo.

[Unit]
Description=Podman - Postgres
Wants=network-online.target
After=network-online.target

[Container]
Image=docker.io/library/postgres:17
AutoUpdate=registry
ContainerName=postgres
# Choose a Postgres username
Environment=POSTGRES_USER={POSTGRES_USER} 
# Choose a Postgres password
Environment=POSTGRES_PASSWORD={POSTGRES_PASSWORD} 
# Change {USER} to your user on the machine
Volume=/home/{USER}/services/postgres:/var/lib/postgresql/data 
PublishPort=5432:5432
HealthCmd="pg_isready -U postgres"
HealthStartPeriod=15s
HealthInterval=30s
HealthTimeout=30s
HealthRetries=3
# USER_ID value is obtained with `id -u` while logged into {USER}
User={USER_ID}
# GROUP_ID value is obtained with `id -g` while logged into {USER}
Group={GROUP_ID}

[Service]
Restart=always
TimeoutStartSec=900

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target

If your editor of choice is vim/nvim you can add # vim: set filetype=systemd : to the end of the file to enable syntax highlighting.

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Installing Jellyfin as a Podman Quadlet

Create the container

Setting Up Podman and Quadlets

Install Podman

Create a Quadlet