Hi. I currently run plex in a kvm VM. Have for years without any real trouble. I’m in the process of refreshing my homelab and replacing the plex VM is next on my list.

I’m curious if there are any pros or cons to running Plex in a docker container vs it’s own dedicated VM? Is there anyone here who’s done both and saw a difference?

  • @joshzcoldEnglish
    3•10 months ago

    If you have multiple media apps. Say radarr, sonarr. You will thank yourself later if you set up all of those in docker-compose, save the configuration to git, mount the storage to something like /media in the container. That means next time you have to set this up again it will automatically be ready.

    I had previous work experience, but setting up containers vs VMs was way faster. The permissions of the media between multiple apps was never messed with which saved me from frustrating issues between applications.

    • @[email protected]English
      1•10 months ago

      Where does one learn how to work with containers this way? I have run Kodi and then Plex for over 10 years on SBCs, but I don’t know how to do any of this.