I’ve been running jellyfin server on win10 but just got my hands on an old laptop that I turned into a ubuntu server.

my question is, is there any advantage on running jellyfin in a docker container?
I suppose it might be easier to get it up running, but might be more wasteful?
Also since it is all in containers, would be easier to troubleshoot or to just kill it and start anew.

  • SmoothLiquidation@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    +1 for Docker if not for anything except the ability to easily upgrade and downgrade.

    I generally grab my containers and specify a specific version number instead of latest. This allows me to have Jellyfin-10.8.1 (or whatever) and quickly go to Jellyfin-10.9.1 for testing and if there is any problem, just stop the new container and restart the old one.

    This also makes it really easy to backup the /config directory if I want as well.