What is Plex?
Plex brings together all the media that matters to you. Your personal collection will look beautiful alongside stellar streaming content. Enjoy Live TV & DVR, a growing catalog of great web shows, news, and podcasts. It's finally possible to enjoy all the media you love in a single app, on any device, no matter where you are. -https://www.plex.tv/
Installing Docker
- Log into the Linux host and run the following commands in a terminal window
# update software respositories
sudo apt update
# install available software updates
sudo apt upgrade -y
# install prerequisites
sudo apt install apt-transport-https ca-certificates curl gnupg2 software-properties-common -y
# add docker gpg key
curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | sudo apt-key add -
# add docker apt repository
sudo add-apt-repository "deb [arch=amd64] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu $(lsb_release -cs) stable"
# install docker
sudo apt install docker-ce docker-compose containerd.io -y
# add the current user to the docker group
sudo usermod -aG docker $USER
# reauthenticate for the new group membership to take effect
su - $USER
Running Plex Media Server Container
- Continue with the following commands in a terminal window
# create working directories
mkdir ~/docker/plex/data -p && mkdir ~/docker/plex/transcode -p && mkdir ~/docker/plex/media -p
# set owner of working directories
sudo chown "$USER":"$USER" ~/docker -R
# run the plex media center docker container
docker run -d --name plex --network=host -e TZ="America/New_York" -v ~/docker/plex/data:/config -v ~/docker/plex/transcode:/transcode -v ~/docker/plex/media:/data --restart=unless-stopped plexinc/pms-docker - Open a web browser and navigate to http://DNSorIP:32400/web
- Log in with one of the available options or click sign up with email
- Give the Plex server a name > Click Next
- Click the Add Library button > Select the media type
- Select Add folders from the left navigation > Click Browse for media folder > Select the folder to add to the media > Click Add Library
- Click Next
- Click Done to complete the server setup
- Welcome to Plex Media Server