Install the Jellyfin Media Server in Docker in Proxmox

September 29, 2024

1. The Docker Compose file can be found here

and the docker compose file here :
Docker-compose file

However this needs modification to make it work

2. Our Installation Instructions

run these commands in the terminal

# become root user
sudo su -

# create the jellyfin folder
mkdir /opt/stacks/jellyfin -p

cd /opt/stacks/jellyfin/

Create the Docker Compose file

nano compose.yaml

Put this in the file :

version: '3.8'

services:
  jellyfin:
    image: jellyfin/jellyfin:latest
    container_name: jellyfin
    restart: unless-stopped
    volumes:
      - ./config:/config  # Using relative path for config
      - ./cache:/cache     # Using relative path for cache
      - ./media:/media     # Using relative path for media
    ports:
      - "8096:8096"
      - "8920:8920"
    network_mode: host

Now create The Environment file

nano .env

Put this in the file

JELLYFIN_USER=admin
JELLYFIN_PASSWORD=P@ssword

3. Start the container NOT in detached mode

Run this command

docker compose up

4. Open in Browser port 8096

Our Proxmox Container server has IP address : 10.154.2.87
http://10.154.2.87:8096

And DNS Name : http://tiger.loseyourip.com:8096/ **http://tiger.loseyourip.com:8096/

5. you can find this docker Stack in our Github repository

https://github.com/nic0michael/MyDockerStacks