Installing Docker and a media stack (Plex, *arrs, download clients, elaborate script) [Text]

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  • doas

    A port of OpenBSD's doas which runs on FreeBSD, Linux, NetBSD, and illumos

  • Now that you have your headless Debian server running, and you’ve installed doas and Webmin, we’ll get things rolling by installing:

  • Muximux

    A lightweight way to manage your HTPC

  • Last but not least, and not in the top menu, is Muximux, which is the server dashboard you see above. You also have Heimdall, Organizr and a few others, but I like Muximux.

  • InfluxDB

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  • Portainer

    Making Docker and Kubernetes management easy.

  • Portainer (for container management)

  • Organizr

    HTPC/Homelab Services Organizer - Written in PHP

  • Last but not least, and not in the top menu, is Muximux, which is the server dashboard you see above. You also have Heimdall, Organizr and a few others, but I like Muximux.

  • bazarr

    Bazarr is a companion application to Sonarr and Radarr. It manages and downloads subtitles based on your requirements. You define your preferences by TV show or movie and Bazarr takes care of everything for you.

  • Bazarr (these are collectively called the *arr’s, see Servarr)

  • Transmission

    Official Transmission BitTorrent client repository

  • Transmission

  • Sonarr

    Smart PVR for newsgroup and bittorrent users.

  • Sonarr

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • sabnzbd

    SABnzbd - The automated Usenet download tool

  • SABnzbd

  • Radarr

    Movie organizer/manager for usenet and torrent users.

  • Radarr

  • Pi-hole

    A black hole for Internet advertisements

  • Pihole (a network-wide adblocker) (number 13 in the screenshot)

  • Docker Compose

    Define and run multi-container applications with Docker

  • docker-compose (configuring and starting Docker containers) and

  • watchtower

    A process for automating Docker container base image updates.

  • I also have Watchtower installed, which I’ve configured to automatically look for updates every 2 days.

  • containerd

    An open and reliable container runtime

  • ### 5.2 update apt && install docker-ce (which will also install docker-ce-cli and containerd.io)

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