clusterplex VS kube-plex

Clusterplex

I'm also very interested in distributing transcoding jobs via https://github.com/pabloromeo/clusterplex. Have you tried that yet?

Here is a link to one of the Cluster projects: https://github.com/pabloromeo/clusterplex

I use a forked version of this: https://github.com/pabloromeo/clusterplex which has been working awesome.

This is not true. You could setup Plex in a cluster and based on which content is requested let it handle by a certain transcoding worker. You have Clusterplex or you have UnicornTranscoder. Both are actively maintained repositories. This does however require some knowledge of Linux/Kubernetes so if OP (/u/slacktopuss) doesn't know how Ubuntu and Kubernetes works, it's going to take a long time before you're up and running.

And if UnicornTranscoder isn't it, you can always look intoClusterPlex's implementation. Basically the same as how UnicornTranscoder works (Node.JS as balancer and some remote FFMPEG installs).

To see full working examples of this we can take a look at the builds of two pet projects of mine: Docker-Dogecoin and ClusterPlex.

Example: https://github.com/munnerz/kube-plex

There are some projects to distribute transcoding jobs like the Unicorn Transcoder (last activity in 2021), Remote Transcoder (last activity in 2017) or the Kubernetes project (last activity in 2020)

not OP, but I have some experience with Kubernetes, plex is the last service that I haven't yet migrated to my K3s cluster. Generally speaking, Kubernetes doesn't mean HA, it does mean that if a node goes down, plex will ideally spin on on another (assuming everything is correctly configured) but an application needs to be designed specifically to be deployed in a HA way in order to scale horizontally like you are suggesting. You can see in the picture that only 1 Pod (a unit that holds a container) is actually running. There is/was a project to separate our transcode jobs into their own pods to allow for horizontal scaling of transcode jobs, but it looks like it hasn't been updated in years, sounds a bit hacky and I haven't had the confidence to try it just yet.

There is a project out there for Plex in Kubernetes btw!

-> https://github.com/munnerz/kube-plex

I've been there and it's not officially supported by Plex or even Jellyfin or Emby. There's kube-plex which is not maintained anymore, probably the most success you could have is with unicorn transcoder however it forces you to stay pinned to a Plex version until the maintainers push an update.

Theres kube-plex, which does this https://github.com/munnerz/kube-plex

Btw it looks like kube-plex (with pod transcoding) isn't dead yet https://github.com/munnerz/kube-plex/pull/97#issuecomment-620610658