podman-quadlet-cookbook/cookbooks/seedbox

Podman Quadlet: Seedbox

Overview

The Seedbox cookbook provides a complete media server stack started as Podman Quadlets. It includes all the tools needed for automated media acquisition and streaming.

This cookbook includes the following services:

• qBittorrent: BitTorrent client for downloading media.
• Radarr: Movie collection manager and downloader.
• Sonarr: TV series collection manager and downloader.
• Lidarr: Music collection manager and downloader.
• Prowlarr: Indexer manager for Radarr, Sonarr, and Lidarr.
• Jellyfin: Media server for streaming your collection.
• FlareSolverr: Proxy server to bypass Cloudflare protection for indexers.
• cross-seed: Automatically cross-seeds your torrents on other private trackers using your existing data.

All services:

• Run as rootless containers with minimal privileges.
• Share a common storage directory structure.
• Support automatic container image updates via Podman auto-update.

Prerequisites

• Storage must be mounted at /var/lib/virtiofs/data/.
• Each service stores its configuration in /var/lib/virtiofs/data/<service>/config/.

Usage

In a separate terminal, follow the logs.

sudo make tail-logs

Install the Podman Quadlets and start the seedbox stack.

sudo make clean install

You should see all services starting up. Access the web interfaces:

• qBittorrent: http://127.0.0.1:8080/
• Radarr: http://127.0.0.1:7878/
• Sonarr: http://127.0.0.1:8989/
• Lidarr: http://127.0.0.1:8686/
• Prowlarr: http://127.0.0.1:9696/
• Jellyfin: http://127.0.0.1:8096/
• FlareSolverr: http://127.0.0.1:8191/
• cross-seed: http://127.0.0.1:2468/

On its first start, cross-seed generates a template configuration file at /var/lib/virtiofs/ssd/cross-seed/config/config.js. Edit it by hand to set at least:

• torznab: your Prowlarr Torznab indexer URL(s) (with their API keys), e.g. http://prowlarr:9696/1/api?apikey=<key>.
• torrentClients: the qBittorrent connection string, e.g. qbittorrent:http://<user>:<pass>@localhost:8080.
• linkDirs: ["/data/storage/seed"], so that cross-seed hardlinks matches into the dedicated seed directory shared with qBittorrent.

Then restart cross-seed.service for the changes to take effect. See the cross-seed documentation for the full set of options.

Restart the seedbox.target unit.

sudo systemctl restart seedbox.target

To restart individual services:

sudo systemctl restart jellyfin.service
sudo systemctl restart qbittorrent.service

Finally, remove the quadlets, their configuration and their data.

sudo make uninstall clean

Integration tests

sudo make test