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How would you expose Jellyfin securely without a vpn? (discuss.online)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Assuming the user will not be connecting over vpn, but is both remote and non-technical, how would you expose Jellyfin to them securely?

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[–] -1 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

Plex server doesn’t need to be “portable”, and running it in docker definitely doesn’t make it easier.

There absolutely are programs that make sense to run in docker, but Plex server isn’t one of them.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    Plex server doesn’t need to be “portable”

    Strongly disagree, I've switched my media server several times in the past decade for a multitude of reasons, having things in docker has allowed me to do this seamlessly.

    Also you're ignoring all of the other benefits of running in docker, from isolation to automation.

    and running it in docker definitely doesn’t make it easier.

    Plex is the only self-hosted service that is purposefully trying to block you from being ran in docker. All other things are just much easier to run in docker, that's part of the appeal, reproducible builds eliminate the "it works on my machine" errors.

    There absolutely are programs that make sense to run in docker, but Plex server isn’t one of them.

    Why do you think it doesn't make sense? Does Jellyfin make sense to you to run in docker? Why are they different?

    Also, Plex only supports Ubuntu and CentOS, none of which I run on my server, so the only OFFICIAL way to run Plex is Docker.

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