I run some Docker containers on my NAS, but ran into a hard drive space issue because of Docker:

sudo du -sh /var/lib/docker
30G	/var/lib/docker

My NAS has a 110Gb SSD for the OS (Ubuntu Server) and 4 drives in a ZFS array for storage.

By default, Docker runs everything from /var/lib/docker, but without doing some …

I had wanted to enable hardware transcoding in Plex for a while, but was under the (incorrect) impression that the CPU in the Docker host didn't support Intel Quick Sync.

Enabling hardware transcoding in Plex

Requirements for using hardware transcoding in Plex:

1. A CPU and/or GPU that supports hardware transcoding.
2. A …

Update: As of May 2023, this is still an issue, so I'm still running Plex server version 1.24.5.

I went to watch a movie using Plex, and an error popped up:

File is unplayable. Color space is not supported …

Running Plex in a Docker container is easy to set up, easy to run, and super easy to update.

I have a custom domain, and get free certificates from Let's Encrypt.

Since I already have a setup to automatically obtain/renew certificates from Let's Encrypt, I also wanted to get a certificate for my Plex install, so I can …

When running Plex in a Docker container, you can't actually upgrade/update the Docker image, but rather, you simply redeploy the container with a newer image.

My plex.yaml file:

version: '2'
services:
  plex:
    container_name: plex
    image: plexinc/pms-docker:latest
    restart: unless-stopped …

Installing Docker on Ubuntu 20.04

1. Update the apt package index:

sudo apt update

2. Uninstall old version(s):

sudo apt remove docker docker-engine docker.io containerd runc

3. Set up the Docker apt repository:

sudo apt install ca-certificates curl gnupg lsb-release -y

4. Add Docker's GPG key:

curl -fsSL …