docker-plex

Ansible Galaxy role to manage and run a plex docker container.

This role wires together the plex docker container created by linuxserver, along with various boilerplate to get things going.

Requirements

This role has been tested on Ubuntu 14.04 and will likely only work on an Ubuntu-like system. You will also need a functioning docker environment and a recent-is version of docker-py for this role to work.

If you have neither and would like ansible to set this up for you, have a look at the marvinpinto.docker Galaxy role.

Role Variables

# Docker container name
docker_plex_container_name: 'plex'

# Plex version. Options are:
# - specific version number e.g. '0.9.12.4.1192-9a47d21'
# - 'plexpass'
# - 'latest'
docker_plex_version: 'latest'

# Directory that will be used as the root of all plex-related configuration &
# data.
#
# Assuming 'docker_plex_mounted_directory' is set to /tmp/plex_mount, then the
# following directories will be automatically created if they don't already
# exist:
#
# /tmp/plex_mount/transcode
# /tmp/plex_mount/library
# /tmp/plex_mount/tv
# /tmp/plex_mount/movies
docker_plex_mounted_directory: '/tmp/plex_mount'

Examples

Install this module from Ansible Galaxy into the './roles' directory:

ansible-galaxy install marvinpinto.docker-plex -p ./roles

Use it in a playbook as follows:

- hosts: '127.0.0.1'
  roles:
    - role: 'marvinpinto.docker-plex'
      become: true

Mounted Directory

The reasoning behind storing all related configuration in the docker_plex_mounted_directory root directory is because a person now has the ability to manage all the configuration + data outside of Ansible.

This becomes especially useful when said mounted directory resides on a separate filesystem (EBS, USB disk, etc).

Initial Setup & Configuration

Since Plex only allows administrative actions to be initiated from a local subnet, you will likely need to create an SSH tunnel to your host machine for the initial setup. Note that this only needed for the initial setup.

https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/200288586-Installation

In its general form, it looks something like this:

ssh ip.address.of.server -L 8888:localhost:32400

Then browsing over to http://localhost:8888/web should allow you to configure your Plex app.

In a vagrant environment, that ssh command looks something like:

ssh \
  -p <Port> \
  -i <IdentityFile> \
  -L 8888:localhost:32400 \
  <User>@<HostName>

Where Port, IdentityFile, User, and HostName can all be found by running:

vagrant ssh-config

More information available on the Plex Installation Docs.