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hero: A recipe to manage your Media 🎥 📺 🎵
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# Plex
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[Plex](https://www.plex.tv/) is a client-server media player system and software suite comprising two main components (a media server and client applications)
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## Ingredients
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1. [Docker swarm cluster](/ha-docker-swarm/design/) with [persistent shared storage](/ha-docker-swarm/shared-storage-ceph.md)
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2. [Traefik](/ha-docker-swarm/traefik) configured per design
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3. A DNS entry for the hostname you intend to use, pointed to your [keepalived](ha-docker-swarm/keepalived/) IP
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## Preparation
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### Setup data locations
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We'll need a directories to bind-mount into our container for Plex to store its library, so create /var/data/plex:
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```
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mkdir /var/data/plex
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```
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### Prepare environment
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Create plex.env, and populate with the following variables. Set PUID and GUID to the UID and GID of the user who owns your media files, on the local filesystem
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```
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EDGE=1
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VERSION=latest
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PUID=42
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PGID=42
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```
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### Setup Docker Swarm
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Create a docker swarm config file in docker-compose syntax (v3), something like this:
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!!! tip
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I share (_with my [patreon patrons](https://www.patreon.com/funkypenguin)_) a private "_premix_" git repository, which includes necessary docker-compose and env files for all published recipes. This means that patrons can launch any recipe with just a ```git pull``` and a ```docker stack deploy``` 👍
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```
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version: "3.0"
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services:
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plex:
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image: linuxserver/plex
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env_file: plex.env
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volumes:
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- /var/data/config/plex:/config
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- /var/data/media:/media
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deploy:
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labels:
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- traefik.frontend.rule=Host:plex.example.com
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- traefik.docker.network=traefik_public
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- traefik.port=32400
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networks:
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- traefik_public
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- internal
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ports:
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- 32469:32469
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- 32400:32400
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- 32401:32401
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- 3005:3005
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- 8324:8324
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- 1900:1900/udp
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- 32410:32410/udp
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- 32412:32412/udp
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- 32413:32413/udp
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- 32414:32414/udp
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networks:
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traefik_public:
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external: true
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internal:
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driver: overlay
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ipam:
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config:
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- subnet: 172.16.16.0/24
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```
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!!! note
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Setup unique static subnets for every stack you deploy. This avoids IP/gateway conflicts which can otherwise occur when you're creating/removing stacks a lot. See [my list](/reference/networks/) here.
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## Serving
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### Launch Plex stack
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Launch the Plex stack by running ```docker stack deploy plex -c <path -to-docker-compose.yml>```
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Log into your new instance at https://**YOUR-FQDN** (You'll need to setup a plex.tv login for remote access / discovery to work from certain clients)
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## Chef's Notes
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1. Plex uses port 32400 for remote access, using your plex.tv user/password to authenticate you. The inclusion of the traefik proxy in this recipe is simply to allow you to use the web client (as opposed to a client app) by connecting directly to your instance, as opposed to browsing your media via https://plex.tv/web
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2. Got an NVIDIA GPU? See [this blog post](https://www.funkypenguin.co.nz/note/gpu-transcoding-with-emby-plex-using-docker-nvidia/) re how to use your GPU to transcode your media!
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### Tip your waiter (donate) 👏
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Did you receive excellent service? Want to make your waiter happy? (_..and support development of current and future recipes!_) See the [support](/support/) page for (_free or paid)_ ways to say thank you! 👏
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### Your comments? 💬
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