Plex Pipeline

Deploy plex as a Docker container at home (or wherever)

Requirements

• Ubuntu Linux Host
• 8GB+ RAM

Setting Up

Add a Role

Add a group_vars folder which will include vars.yml (for group variables) and vault.yml (for Ansible vault).

Required variables for the playbook are:

# vars.yml
install_version
time_zone


# vault.yml
advertise_ip:
media_volumes:

Optional variables

# vars.yml - See vault.yml vars
run_backup:

# vault.yml
ansible_user:
ansible_become_user:
ansible_become_password:

# Backup vars: required when run_backup == true
backup_user:
backup_server:
backup_ssh_port:
backup_path:

plex_claim_token:

Add an inventory

Create an inventory YAML file to configure hosts for deployment. The playbook needs a host group named plex_server

your_role_name:
  children:
    plex_server:
      hosts:
        your_hostname_or_ip_here:

Run Playbook

ansible-playbook \
  ./playbook/main.yml \
  -i ./inventories/homelab.yml \
  --private-key=~/.ssh/id_rsa \
  -u remote-user \
  --vault-password-file=/path/to/password.txt

Deploy via Concord

The playbook can be run from Concord

Start Concord process via payload

SERVER_URL=https://concord-instance.com:8080 ./run.sh