podman-quadlet-cookbook/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.

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/

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