ifbo / plex-docker

Docker Compose setup for Plex/Sonarr/Radarr Infrastructure

plex-docker

This repo will help you deploy your own Plex infrastructure, including these Docker containers:

• Plex
• Radarr
• Sonarr
• Bazarr
• NZBGet
• Organizr
• Overseerr
• Tautulli
• Qbittorrent (optional if you use NZBGet)
• cloudflare-ddns

Directory Structure

This will be the structure of your files in your directory. I've omitted the contents of the config directories in this example.

plex-docker
 ├── config
 │   ├── bazarr
 │   ├── cloudflare-ddns
 │   ├── nzbget
 │   ├── overseerr
 │   ├── organizr
 │   ├── plexdata
 │   ├── qbittorrent
 │   ├── radarr
 │   ├── sonarr
 │   ├── tautulli
 │   └── transcode
 ├── docker-compose.yml # Launches the actual services
 ├── .env
 ├── proxy
 │   ├── docker-compose.yml # Launches a proxy for internet-facing services
 │   ├── .env

And this is what my media directory looks like:

/mnt/media
├── audiobooks
├── downloads
├── education
├── homevideos
├── isos
├── movies
└── tv

For best performance, your transcode directory as defined in the volumes section of your plex service should exist locally instead of on a NAS.

Install docker and docker-compose

Follow whatever guide you can find for your OS/distribution.

Clone this repository

git clone https://github.com/willquill/plex-docker.git

Getting Proxy ready (optional)

Only do this if you want any of the containers to be accessible from the internet

Create proxy network:

docker network create nginx-proxy

In the proxy directory, rename .env-sample to .env and modify the email address within.

Launch the proxy:

docker compose -f proxy/docker-compose.yml up -d

Preparing your config

Everything here happens in the plex-docker directory.

Create the directories by copying and pasting this:

cd config && \
  plexdirs=(nzbget overseerr plexdata radarr sonarr tautulli bazarr organizr transcode qbittorrent cloudflare-ddns) && \
  for dir in $plexdirs; do mkdir $dir; done

Prepare the env file:

mv .env-sample .env

Now edit the env file for your needs. For example, I store my tv, movies, and other media directories on my NAS, which is mounted to the /mnt/media directory. You will modify the value of MEDIADIR in your .env file to reflect the location of your files.

Similarly, I keep this plex-docker directory inside my home folder. If you store it elsewhere, define its location in the USERDIR value.

Don't forget to change the .env values of PUID and GUID to the values associated with the ownership of your media files!

Preparing Plex

If you do not use Intel QuickSync, remove the devices and privileged sections from the plex container in the docker-compose.yml file.

If you do use Intel QuickSync, be sure to do the following:

sudo chmod -R 777 /dev/dri

Also, if you use Intel QuickSync, the HDMI or DisplayPort port associated with Intel Graphics must be physically plugged into a monitor capable of the type of transcoding you wish to do. For example, 4K transcoding can only take place if a 4K monitor is plugged into this port.

You may purchase a dummy plug to plug into the port in lieu of using an actual cable with a monitor. The dummy plugs stick out about an inch from the server's port and trick Intel QuickSync into thinking a monitor is plugged in. Search "dummy plug 4k" on your shopping site of choice to find one.

Prepare cloudflare-ddns

I use Cloudflare, but if you use something else for DDNS, you can swap it out for the ddclient Docker container. I used ddclient for a long time, but they were slow to adopt changes to the Cloudflare API, and I kept running into problems.

Edit the config.json file to match your parameters. Then move it to the cloudflare-ddns directory as follows: mv config.json config/cloudflare-ddns

While the docker container supports your Cloudflare global API key via different config syntax, the way I structured my JSON is compatible with zone-specific API tokens. Note that you must allow both READ and EDIT.

If your domain is example.com, you may want to use media.example.com for Overseerr and history.example.com for Tautulli. To make things easier, I created an A record called ddns. And then I have a CNAME to point media and history to ddns.example.com. This way, I only need to put one subdomain in the config file.

The cloudflare-ddns config file supports not only multiple subdomains but multiple zones.

Launch your infrastructure

Make sure you are inside the plex-docker directory when you run this.

docker compose up -d

Prepare nzbget.conf

This is what my primary directory paths look like in config/nzbget/nzbget.conf:

MainDir=/config
DestDir=/downloads/completed

Modify appropriately and then relaunch nzbget

docker compose up -d --no-deps --build nzbget

Set up everything else

The rest of the setup will be done by logging into the WebUIs of the various services and configuring them.

Examples:

• http://localhost:32400/web - Plex
• http://localhost:6789 - NZBGet
• http://localhost:8989 - Sonarr
• http://localhost:7878 - Radarr
• http://localhost:6767 - Bazarr
• http://localhost:8090 - Qbittorrent
• https://yourdomain.com (for Overseerr)
• https://history.yourdomain.com (for Tautulli)

Upgrading

Make the update script executable: chmod +x update.sh

Execute the update script: ./update.sh

What the script does:

• Rebuilds all containers with the image specified in the image line from the compose file. If this is latest, then it will of course get the latest version of that docker container.
• Deletes images no longer used by containers

Troubleshooting

If you're seeing odd behavior, make sure you are on docker version 20.

docker --version

Notes

Docker Compose

Depending on your configuration, the docker compose command may need a hyphen, so you may need to run docker-compose up -d instead of docker compose up -d.

NAS Mount

I use NFS to mount a remote directory (a Synology NAS on my home network) to a local directory.

In my case, I added this line to /etc/fstab:

10.1.20.91:/volume2/media /mnt/media nfs auto,nofail,noatime,nolock,intr,tcp,actimeo=1800 0 0

The LAN IP of my Synology is 10.1.20.91, and I have a Shared Folder named media which has NFS sharing enabled.

I use the following settings on the Synology for my media share:

Privilege: Read/Write
Squash: No mapping
Security: AUTH_SYS and Kerberos integrity
All three checkboxes are enabled (async, non-privileged ports, allow mounting subfolders)

After updating your fstab, run mount -a in your terminal to mount the remote directory to the local directory. Note: You must first create the destination directory. Typically, /mnt already exists, so you only need to run mkdir /mnt/media to create the subdirectory. You can mount the remote directory anywhere, including your home folder.

Qbittorrent

The official documentation for the qbittorrent container uses webui port 8080 as a default. Since I'm using that for organizr, I changed qbittorrent to 8090.

For qbittorrent WebUI, the default username is admin and the password is adminadmin.

My qbittorrent container volumes are as follows:

- ./config/qbittorrent:/config
- $MEDIADIR/downloads:/downloads
- $MEDIADIR/isos:/isos

I did this so that I can keep linux ISOs in the isos directory.

License

Distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for more information.