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How does one get started with the *arr stack? (sopuli.xyz)
submitted 2 months ago by goddard_guryon@sopuli.xyz to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Hey guys! After over 2 years of me asking how to take the first steps in self-hosting, I think I've finally got most of the things I need set up (except for a mailcow server proxied through a VPS, but that's for another day). I've been seeing a bunch of posts here about the *arr stack, and only recently it piqued my interest enough to really warrant a serious look. But I'll be honest, it's a bit confusing. For now, I'm just thinking of starting up the whole suite on my machine, then slowly expose to internet the parts I find useful (and shut down the parts I don't). But I really can't find any good...tutorial(?) on how to quickly get the whole stack running, and I'm a bit worried about launching individual apps since I don't know if/how they communicate with each other. So I'll try to summarize my, quite naïve, questions here:

  • how exactly do I set up a quick stack? Is that possible? And more importantly, is that recommended?
  • most of the tutorials/stacks I see online use plex for video streaming, but seeing a lot of negativity around plex and its pricing, I reckon using jellyfin would be better. Does it just plug into the ecosystem as easily as plex apparently does?
  • I've already set up a hack-ish navidrome instance to stream music, but managing files is a real hassle with it. Does sonarr(?) do it any better?

I know most of these questions can be easily answered through some LLM (which I don't wanna rely on) or scouring documentation (which honestly look a bit daunting from my point right now), so I figured it'd be best to ask here. Thanks for any help!

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[–] Kagu@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Gonna assume you want much more control than this but something that really helped me understand what each arr component did was using an automated script to stand everything up. If you're using something like proxmox or a VM I really liked yams.media as the steps are laid out very straight forwardly.

After about a year of running that and moving my home server to TrueNAS I now stand up all my own containers using dockge and docker compose. But IMO its easier to start easy