marvinpinto / ansible-role-plex

Ansible Galaxy role to install and manage plex media server.

plex

Ansible Galaxy role to install and manage Plex Media Server.

Requirements

This role has been tested on Ubuntu 14.04 and will likely only work on an Ubuntu-like system.

Role Variables

# Application config
#
# Note that if you intend on using these directories, you will need to manually
# point to them from within your plex (GUI) config.
plex_app_transcode_directory: '/opt/plex_transcode'
plex_app_library_directory: '/opt/plex_library'

Examples

Install this module from Ansible Galaxy into the './roles' directory:

ansible-galaxy install marvinpinto.plex -p ./roles

Use it in a playbook as follows:

- hosts: '127.0.0.1'
  roles:
    - { role: marvinpinto.plex, become: true, tags: ["plex"] }

When re-running the playbook to upgrade versions of plex, run only the plex portion of the playbook with ansible-playbook playbook.yml -t plex

Development

Use the supplied Vagrantfile for local development and testing (hint: vagrant up --provision)