Kavita Comic Server on Kubernetes

Deploy Kavita to Kubernetes using a Kustomize overlay.

You will need to edit kustomize/overlays/local/kustomization.yaml to specify the following for your environment:

1. Hostname for your ingress
2. Amount of space to reserve in a PersistentVolumeClaim for Kavita to use
3. The location of a volume where your library is located

K8s or K3s

kubectl apply -k kustomize/overlays/local

App config

The Kavita config and all the covers are stored in the PersistentVolumeClaim. If you delete that or your entire namespace, you'll lose that and have to recreate it.

I stubbed out a ConfigMap where you could store your appconfig, but you'll want to be careful of any secrets in the config.

Test in Podman

Run a test container using Podman instead:

podman run -d --name kavita \
    -v /path/to/kavita/config:/kavita/config \
    -v /path/to/Comics:/comics \
    -v /path/to/Magazines:/magazines \
    -p 5000:5000 \
    --restart unless-stopped \
    --pull always \
    docker.io/kizaing/kavita:latest

Reference

Kavita official repo