About this container

This container runs a Plex media server instance. More about Plex can be found at:

https://plex.tv

Building the container

Before building, there are a number of environment variables to ensure are correct for your setup. Have a look through the vars file and update at will.

With those configured correctly for your setup, you can build the Docker container by running the build.sh script.

$ ./build.sh

Running the container

It's really straight forward to run the Docker container. Just kick off the run.sh script.

$ ./run.sh

Updating Plex

This container is now semi-auto updating! Every time the container is started it will check to see that the latest build is installed. To enable this feature PLEX_SERVER_VERSION needs to be defined within vars as either 'public' or 'plexpass' with appropriate creds

PLEX_SERVER_VERSION=public

OR

PLEX_SERVER_VERSION=plexpass
PLEXPASS_USER="username"
PLEXPASS_PASS="password"

Now go ahead and restart the container, plex will be running the latest build.

$ docker restart plex

Test the container

You should be able to connect to the plex server just like normal, but here is a quick test you can run to make sure it's listening:

$ curl -I http://localhost:32400/web/index.html
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Cache-Control: no-cache
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Connection: Keep-Alive
Keep-Alive: timeout=20
Content-Length: 2502
Content-Type: text/html
X-Plex-Protocol: 1.0