New open Source "Google Photo killer" immich.app

[elversoee]

Hope this relativity new App will be supported

https://immich.app/

https://github.com/immich-app/immich

already have Android and IOS apps. still under very active development.
but hope for another great and simple install script

alternative version without Machine Learning
https://github.com/imagegenius/docker-immich

https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/10h5ur0/immich_is_too_good_what_is_the_catch_for_all_of_us/

[DocDrydenn]

+1

I'm currently stuck running this as a Snap since I'm not running anything Docker. Unfortunately, the snap usually lags behind the Immich releases... Getting this as a Proxmox LXC would be awesome.

[fantasjr]

+1

[ka2er]

+1

[KinDR007]

+1

[Slipperyclock]

+1

[emddummi]

+1

[r4ds3c]

+1

[DocDrydenn]

To get this added as a Proxmox LXC script, we need a Debian install path (i.e. "bare-metal" install). These "+1" are great, but the real pressure needs to be put on Immich here.

[johndoe0815]

I managed to set it up in a docker LXC from tteck as per official instructions from immich page. Beware however that it does NOT work with the docker alpine LXC, only with the "full" one. The alpine version throws an error when deploying the stack on the line
- /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro

[Smile2Grow]

There are two other alternatives:

1. as tteck already wrote, install LXC dockge, during the installation you will be asked if you want to install Immich.
2. install lxc docker and then https://runtipi.io/ using the command curl -L https://setup.runtipi.io | bash. You can use runtipi to install various other interesting applications.

[mastan30]

Hi I was able to install using dockge, but I am having issue giving unpriviliged container read write access using lxc id mapping, Can someone help me with the id mapping, I know this is not the right forum but looking for some help.

[mastan30]

Finally able to get immich running in a docker unprivileged LXC, Here's the step by step guide to do it.

Immich Docker Install

1. To install immich, the recommended way to install is using a docker compose, we can't install it on a bare metal debian os. So we will install a docker LXC using the proxmox script and install docker compose.Then we will create the docker-compose file for installing immich.

2. To install docker LXC we can used the following Proxmox script from the beloved tteck github:

    Docker LXC
    Options to Install Portainer and/or Docker Compose V2
    Docker is an open-source project for automating the deployment of applications as portable, self-sufficient containers.
   
    🛈 If the LXC is created Privileged, the script will automatically set up USB passthrough.
   
    To create a new Proxmox VE Docker LXC, run the command below in the Proxmox VE Shell.
   
    Copy
    bash -c "$(wget -qLO - https://github.com/tteck/Proxmox/raw/main/ct/docker.sh)"
    ⚡ Default Settings: 2GB RAM - 4GB Storage - 2vCPU ⚡
    As an alternative option, you can use Alpine Linux and the Docker package to create a Docker LXC container with faster creation time and minimal system resource usage.
   
    To create a new Proxmox VE Alpine-Docker LXC, run the command below in the Proxmox VE Shell.
   
    Copy
    bash -c "$(wget -qO - https://github.com/tteck/Proxmox/raw/main/ct/alpine-docker.sh)"
    ⚡ Default Settings: 1GB RAM - 2GB Storage - 1vCPU ⚡
    ⚠ Run Compose V2 by replacing the hyphen (-) with a space, using docker compose, instead of docker-compose.
   
    Portainer Interface: IP:9443
   

3. Once the container is installed, let's mount a mountpoint of SMB share where the images are uploaded.

4. In order to write the files into the SMB share, there's a catch here. The LXC we created using the script is an unpriviliged container which is the safest way to build container but the issue is we can't write anything into the shared drived from Proxmox host.

5. Instead of mounting the SMB share via Proxmox UI, we use fstab to mount the SMB share. Here are the steps to mount

     vi /etc/fstab
   

   Then add the following line replacing the uid and gid for which you want the access to the proxmox container

     //192.168.X.XX/Path/to/share/ /path/to/mount/       cifs    noperm,iocharset=utf8,rw,credentials=/root/.storage_credentials,uid=1000,gid=1000,file_mode=0660,dir_mode=0770 0 0
   

   eg: //192.168.1.19/Photos/immichtest/ /mnt/pve/immichtest/ cifs noperm,iocharset=utf8,rw,credentials=/root/.storage_credentials,uid=1000,gid=1000,file_mode=0660,dir_mode=0770 0 0

     vi /root/.storage_credentials
   

   In this file add the username and password as below:

   username=username
   password=password
   

   mount -a
   

   This will mount the SMB share into the Proxmox host, now check the mount directory permissions by doing ls -al and check if the mount has the permissions of assigned uid and gid. If not do a reboot of the host and it takes care of it.

6. Shutdown the container and mount the SMB share to the proxmox LXC by following commands:

    pct set 100 -mp0 /mnt/bindmounts/shared,mp=/shared
   
   

   eg: pct set 100 -mp0 /mnt/pve/immichtest/ ,mp=/immichtest/ - 100 is the lxc id

7. Start the container and check the if the mount point is assigned with right uid and gid inside the container.

8. Now in the LXC create a folder using following commands

     mkdir ./immich/
     cd ./immich/
   

   create the docker-compose file and also the .env file in the directory as per the immich guide

      https://immich.app/docs/install/docker-compose
   

   Run the docker compose and follow the immichi guide to setup your albums and libraries as required.

9. Optinally in order to add hardware acceleration, I used NVIDIA acceleration. In order to get it working here are the steps to follow:

   Next step is to passthrough the nvidia graphics card to the lxc, In order to do the passthrough follow the below guide.

   [Nvidia graphics passthrough](https://gist.github.com/egg82/90164a31db6b71d36fa4f4056bbee2eb_
   Nivdia graphics passthrough video

   I have already installed NVIDIA drivers for jellyfin lxc in proxmox host, so I just installed the nvidia drivers in container using below commands:

    wget https://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/535.146.02/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-{Latest-version}.run
   

   you can get the NVIDIA latest driver url from here : https://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx

   once downloaded install the drivers (The --no-kernel-module module is used as already there's kernel installed ):

   chmod +x NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-{Latest-version}.run
   
   ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-{Latest-version}.run ----no-kernel-module
   

   once installed make sure the drivers are installed by running:

   nvidia-smi -l 10
   

10. Now we need to pass through the hardware acceleration to docker container by following the immich guide:

    https://immich.app/docs/features/hardware-transcoding
    

    In order to have the driver passed to container, we need to have nvidia container toolkit installed using the following commands in the container:
    (https://docs.nvidia.com/datacenter/cloud-native/container-toolkit/latest/install-guide.html)

    curl -fsSL https://nvidia.github.io/libnvidia-container/gpgkey | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/nvidia-container-toolkit-keyring.gpg \
    && curl -s -L https://nvidia.github.io/libnvidia-container/stable/deb/nvidia-container-toolkit.list | \
    sed 's#deb https://#deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/nvidia-container-toolkit-keyring.gpg] https://#g' | \
    sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nvidia-container-toolkit.list
    
    
    
    sed -i -e '/experimental/ s/^#//g' /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nvidia-container-toolkit.list
    
    
    
    sudo apt-get update
    
    
    sudo apt-get install -y nvidia-container-toolkit
    
    
    

    Also one other step I needed to do to make sure the docker compose works with hardware-transcoding is to modify nvidia config using below commands in container:

    Edit /etc/nvidia-container-runtime/config.toml and disable cgroups:

      
      vi /etc/nvidia-container-runtime/config.toml
      
      set no-cgroups = true in the config.toml file, save and reboot the container. Now run the docker compose for immich.
    
    

    References:

    https://immich.app/docs/install/script

    https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/how-to-automatically-mount-a-smb-share-on-an-lxc.118220/

    https://immich.app/docs/features/hardware-transcoding

    https://www.reddit.com/r/Proxmox/comments/s0ud5y/comment/jl4lef2/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

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[fedeiglesias]

Thanks for the tutorial @mastan30, I wanted to know if it would make sense to activate the hardware acceleration if I only have a mobile processor, specifically an i7 12650H.