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.
Dustin C. Hatch
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