Jellyfin is everyone’s favourite open-source multimedia player. This guide goes over how to install it as a Podman Quadlet. This assumes you already have Podman setup for Quadlets. Follow this guide to setup Podman for Quadlets. Create the container First, create and edit sudo nvim ~/containers/jellyfin.container, if you don’t use Neovim, replace nvim with whichever text editor you prefer. Paste the follwing. Replace {USER} with your user, {PUID} with the value of id {USER} -u, {PGID} with the value of id {USER} -g, and change your time zone accordingly.
  • @[email protected]English
    1•10 hours ago

    Why would someone want containers managed by systemd instead of just having them run like normal? What is the advantage?

    Also if you use cockpit or some equivalent GUI to manage your containers, do you have to give it permission to control all systemd services?

    • exuEnglish
      6•9 hours ago

      I’ve been managing my containers using the older mechanism (systemd-generate) since I started and it’s great. You get the reliable service start of systemd and its management interface. Monitoring is consistent with all your other services and you have your logs in exactly one location.

      I really wouldn’t want a separate interface or service manager just because I’m running containers.

      • @[email protected]English
        1•6 hours ago

        Do you run other things on your system other than containers? I have a VM that only runs containers so it really doesn’t do anything else with systemd apart from the basics so I’m curious if there would be any advantage to me switching.