I’m pretty new to self-hosting in general, so I’m sorry if I’m not using correct terminology or if this is a dumb question.

I did a big archival project last year, and ripped all 700 or so DVDs/Blu-rays I own. Ngl, I had originally planned on just having them all in a big media folder and picking out whatever I wanted to watch that way. Fortunately, I discovered Jellyfin, and went with that instead.

So I bought a mini pc to run Ubuntu server on, and I just installed Jellyfin directly there. Eventually I decided to try hosting a few other services (like Home Assistant and BookLore (R.I.P.)), which I did through Docker.

So I’m wondering, should I be running Jellyfin through Docker as well? Are there advantages to running Jellyfin through Docker as opposed to installed directly on the server? Would transitioning my Jellyfin instance to Docker be a complicated process (bearing in mind that I’m new and dumb)?

Thanks for any assistance.

  • Björn@swg-empire.deEnglish
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    3 days ago

    The biggest advantage of Docker is that it’s a little bit easier to manage all the dependencies of a service. And often enough the Docker images come from the official vendor and thus should in theory be configured optimally out of the box and give you timely updates.

    But if you don’t have any problems with your current install I wouldn’t touch it.