This post will serve as guide to walk through the hardware/setup, and some of the podman commands use to get a media server up and running on a raspberry 4 using the jellyfin container.

Software:

Hardware:

  • raspberry pi 4, running alma linux
  • I purchased the hink sink, and a few fans to keep it cool
  • an external hard drive, I am using a 1TB seagate ssd usb drive

This guide assumes that you already have OS installed and connected with wired or wifi as well.

Lets get started.

Mount your hard drive, in my case:

   mount /dev/sda1 /MOUNTPOINT. Once mounted, create your media directory

Instead of creating a network in podman, decided to create an interface and hang it off my wlan0 interface.

   ip addr add IPADDR/MASK dev wlan0

Open jellyfin port via firewalld.

   firewall-cmd --zone=public --permanent --add-port=8096/tcp

Fire up, and grab the jellyfin image with podman.

   podman   run -d  --volume ~/jellyfin/config:/config:z  --volume ~/jellyfin/cache:/cache:z  --volume /home/$USER/transfer/$MEDIA:/media:z  -p 172.20.7.10:8096:8096  --label "io.containers.autoupdate=image"  --name myjellyfin  jellyfin/jellyfin
   
- replace $USER with your user account, and then your media path

If all goes well, you should that your podman up and running in rootless mode.

   podman ps -a
   CONTAINER ID  IMAGE                               COMMAND     CREATED     STATUS         PORTS                       NAMES
   402efc6e0d24  docker.io/jellyfin/jellyfin:latest              5 days ago  Up 5 days ago  172.20.7.10:8096->8096/tcp  myjellyfin