Thinking of switching to windows or truenas for a new jellyfin build

[minty6873]

are you saying install ubuntu kind of like a windows install, and then install jellyfin on that?

did you miss the post from TheDreadPirate?

what he was hinting at is a rapid deployment script, officially from jellyfin, which is intended to take your system from post install to jellyfin

go to https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/installation/linux and scroll down to the ubuntu and debian sections

it appears to make the process very painless

actually i did, scrolled right past it somehow, eta thank you for the link

[minty6873]

Also, if Jellyfin was your only container you should consider just doing a bare metal install.  In Ubuntu/Debian there is an official script to automate installation.  And it saves you the extra steps of configuring Docker, making sure to pass in the GPU, etc.

how do you configure things if you use that? I'm somewhat used to portainer and docker config files, not comfortable with them but at least a little familiiar
is this way a better way to manage jellyfin and other containers? is there a config file that points to specific folders or anything like that?

in omv I had to make folders for moveis, tv, kids shows , etc and set up my docker config to point to those specific folders, then link jellyfin to them to find media

how is that managed in ubuntu? (just trying to get a better overview of it)

[minty6873]

Yeah.  22.04 is the current LTS version (long term support). If you want a docker GUI, install Ubuntu 22.04 DESKTOP (not server) since the GUI is pre-installed and you don't have to worry about that.  The desktop installer will also install a new enough kernel for your iGPU.  I don't recall if you have to check a box or something to include the non-free Intel drivers.  I think it does install Intel drivers by default, but Jellyfin has documentation to install those in Ubuntu if it doesn't.

appreciate the help and replies, it helps me a ton.
so just to be clear, I put my system together and install ubuntu desktop onto a little ssd (128 or 256gb is ok?)
create a raid array in ubuntu with all my drives in it..
- question, will it recognize sas drives and a LSI controller flashed to IT mode? I'm assuming it should
also I'm running a 10gb lan using mellanox x3 nics with sfp to cat 6 adapters, to a unifi aggregation switch connected to a bunch of other unifi gear (my other 2 servers, main desktop and torrent box are also on that aggregation switch) I can saturate that 10g from nas to desktop, but not in reverse, mech drives too slow)
I guess I'll have to figure out what to do with those, hopefully ubuntu will recognize them

continuing on, docker is already installed with ubuntu, I can just install portainer from there, create directories, populate them with media, do the pull for jellyfin and point it to my directories get it all configured and then just leave it alone for months on end? 

that's what I'm looking for, OMV spazzes out every now and then and makes me reboot the whole array, some kind of memory leak or something. I don't like restarting my array if I can help it, the server(s) are behind a firewall and not connected to the internet, just the lan, so not too too worried about updates, just want long term stability wtih a minimum of reboots

sorry if it's a lot of stuff jammed into one post. Oh also one more thing. can you also use ubuntu as a file server using smb? I'm assuming yes.. I have a few smb folders on my existing servers that I use to transfer stuff back and fourth to \ backups and whatnot

[Deleted User]

fwiw my debian home server averages 8-9 months between restarts
- usually its me doing some maintenance, a couple times were extended power outages that the battery backups couldn't extend beyond

[TheDreadPirate]

appreciate the help and replies, it helps me a ton.
so just to be clear, I put my system together and install ubuntu desktop onto a little ssd (128 or 256gb is ok?)
create a raid array in ubuntu with all my drives in it..
- question, will it recognize sas drives and a LSI controller flashed to IT mode? I'm assuming it should
also I'm running a 10gb lan using mellanox x3 nics with sfp to cat 6 adapters, to a unifi aggregation switch connected to a bunch of other unifi gear (my other 2 servers, main desktop and torrent box are also on that aggregation switch) I can saturate that 10g from nas to desktop, but not in reverse, mech drives too slow)
I guess I'll have to figure out what to do with those, hopefully ubuntu will recognize them

Any hardware OMV can run Ubuntu can run.

continuing on, docker is already installed with ubuntu, I can just install portainer from there, create directories, populate them with media, do the pull for jellyfin and point it to my directories get it all configured and then just leave it alone for months on end? 

that's what I'm looking for, OMV spazzes out every now and then and makes me reboot the whole array, some kind of memory leak or something. I don't like restarting my array if I can help it, the server(s) are behind a firewall and not connected to the internet, just the lan, so not too too worried about updates, just want long term stability wtih a minimum of reboots

Linux, in general, doesn't force reboots for updates like Windows does.  I restart every 2-3 weeks for kernel updates, but my jellyfin is Internet accessible so security is a concern.

sorry if it's a lot of stuff jammed into one post. Oh also one more thing. can you also use ubuntu as a file server using smb? I'm assuming yes.. I have a few smb folders on my existing servers that I use to transfer stuff back and fourth to \ backups and whatnot

Yes
   

[bitmap]

continuing on, docker is already installed with ubuntu, I can just install portainer from there, create directories, populate them with media, do the pull for jellyfin and point it to my directories get it all configured and then just leave it alone for months on end?

Pretty much. I think what comes with Ubuntu is a different version of docker than I'm used to, so I always end up installing it manually (I use apt, not snap) but the snap version should work. You may need to install the compose plugin. Docker documentation is pretty thorough but it's a versioning hellscape of confusion. Luckily their install info is solid.