I had originally intended to deploy Radarr, Sonarr, and Prowlarr on
Kubernetes. Unfortunately, this turned out to be problematic, as I
would need a way to share the download directory between Radarr/Sonar
and Aria2, and the media directory between Radarr/Sonarr and Jellyfin.
The only way I could fathom to do this would be to expose both
directories via NFS and mount that share into the pods. I decided this
would be too much of a hassle for no real gain, at least not in the
short term. Instead, it makes more sense to deploy the *arr suite on
the same server as Aria2 and Jellyfin, which is essentially what the
community expects.
The recommended images for deploying the applications in containers are
pretty crappy. I didn't really want to mess with trying to get the
them to work natively on Fedora, nor deal with installing them from
tarballs with Ansible, so I created my own Debian-based container images
for them and deployed those via Podman+Quadlet. These images are
published to the _Packages_ organization in Gitea, which is not public
and requires authentication. We can use the Kubernetes Secret to obtain
the authentication token to use to pull the image.
