The Jellyfin Stack

coytishost — Jellyfin Media Stack

I wasn’t going to do Jellyfin because I don’t watch TV or movies anywhere near enough to warrant it and homelab people annoy me, and never shut up about it.

This got made because I wanted to watch ted lasso and got carried away, the 8tb HDD was bought for this, I spent $350soIdid{n}^{\prime }thavetospent$20ish on Apple TV

Eat shit Tim Cook

Full self-hosted media stack running in Docker on an Ubuntu 24.04 LTS VM. Jellyfin handles playback; Sonarr/Radarr automate acquisition; qBittorrent runs behind a WireGuard VPN.

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VM Specs (VM 105)

OS	Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
Resources	4GB RAM, 4 cores, 32GB OS disk (NVMe)
Media disk	8TB virtual disk (media8tb pool) — mounted at /mnt/media, ~514GB used as of June 2026
Docker	Compose-based, files at /opt/media/docker-compose.yml
SSH	Key auth

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Stack

Container	Port	Purpose
Jellyfin	8096	Media server — watch.coytis.me
Jellyseerr	5055	Request portal — request.coytis.me
Sonarr	8989	TV show automation
Radarr	7878	Movie automation
Prowlarr	9696	Indexer manager (synced to Sonarr + Radarr)
SABnzbd	8085	Usenet downloader
Gluetun	—	WireGuard VPN container (Mullvad)
qBittorrent	8080	Torrent client, routed through Gluetun

qBittorrent shares Gluetun’s network namespace — all torrent traffic exits through the VPN. In Sonarr/Radarr, the download client hostname is gluetun:8080, not qbittorrent.

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Directory Structure

/opt/media/          ← Docker Compose + per-container config dirs
/mnt/media/
  tv/                ← TV shows (Sonarr target)
  movies/            ← Movies (Radarr target)
  downloads/         ← SABnzbd/qBittorrent drop zone

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Useful Commands

cd /opt/media
 
docker compose ps              # container status
docker compose logs -f         # live logs (all)
docker compose logs -f jellyfin  # live logs (one container)
docker compose restart         # restart all
docker compose pull && docker compose up -d  # update images

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Gotchas

• SABnzbd download paths — must point to /downloads/incomplete (temp) and /downloads (complete) on first run, or it fills the 32GB OS disk
• qBittorrent hostname — use gluetun:8080 in Sonarr/Radarr, not qbittorrent:8080
• OS disk — ~35% used after fixing the SABnzbd issue; Docker images live here, keep an eye on it
• Port 80 — currently blocked by another host on the LAN. Once resolved: open 80 on UFW + router and Caddy picks it up automatically