Kube-plex

Plex Media Server
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kube-plex (the ressu version on github) is a neat little project which spins up pods whenever transcoding is needed, allowing for some level of horizontal scaling.

I recently saw that plex now offers a helm chart, so I figure your devs are probably aware of kube-plex.

My homelab hardware wasn’t enough to get kube-plex working in the past but recently I’ve upgraded some things and decided to give kube-plex another shot, only to discover that something within plex has resulted in kube-plex not working as well as it used to… basically making it unusable now.

I understand when people say it would take a whole rewrite of plex to implement horizontal scaling but I wonder, could an engineer out there throw us a bone and make it so kube-plex can work again? Adjust whatever it is on the pms side that caused kube-plex to break?

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This one (that has not been touched in four years)? GitHub - munnerz/kube-plex: Scalable Plex Media Server on Kubernetes -- dispatch transcode jobs as pods on your cluster!

Ask the author to update their project or use one of the many forks that has been updated more recently. ex: GitHub - ressu/kube-plex: Scalable Plex Media Server on Kubernetes -- dispatch transcode jobs as pods on your cluster!

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My comment has ‘(the ressu version)’ in it, and I’ve been in contact with him, that’s why I’m saying there has been a change in plex that broke kube-plex.

I’ll start looking through all the forks, but I believe ressu when he says there’s been a change that makes the kube-plex strategy no longer work.

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Apologies. Completely missed that you mentioned the version. Time for another cup of coffee. :coffee:

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Thread discussing the change that plex made which seems to make it so the kube-plex strategy doesn’t work anymore:

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