This reposistory provides both an Ansible playbook to automatically install Jellyfin on a Debian server as well as a Terraform configuration to provision a server at Hetzer Cloud, run the playbook, and set up DNS records.

Jellyfin is set up using the official Docker image with Traefik as a reverse proxy for TLS termination.

The playbook handles some basic hardening of the server using roles from dev-sec/ansible-collection-hardening. The SSH server is configured to a standard similar to the Mozilla Modern OpenSSH guideline. The TLS configuration is rated as "A+" by Qualys SSL Labs.

As of the time of writing, the playbook is really only intended to work with an existing Jellyfin config directory, see below for details and how to correctly use it.

You need to have ansible, terraform and python-hcloud installed.

If the latter isn't available as a package on your distribution, install it using pip --user install python-hcloud.

Enter the terraform directory and create a file terraform.tfvars defining all the required variables from variables.tf.

If your media files can be directly played by all clients, a cx11 instance should work fine, but as soon as clients require transcoding, you will need a bigger one.

Ideally you should use an instance with dedicated CPU resources. The ccx31 type should be sufficient for transcoding at least five different streams at the same time.

This playbook is intended to be used with an existing Jellyfin configuration. Copy your Jellyfin config directory to ansible/jellyfin-config.

If you do not do this, the Jellyfin install wizard will be accessible on the web and accessible by absolutely anyone; who could then create an admin account and use the server to serve potentially illegal content. You have been warned.

As a workaround you may change the Traefik config in ansible/roles/jellyfin/templates to only allow local local connections until the wizard has been completed.

If you figure out a better way to handle this, feel free to make a pull request. I'd be happy to accept it!

Again in the terraform directory run terraform apply, enter "yes", and sit back and watch as your server is being provisioned, hardened, and Jellyfin is set up.

Once this is done you can connect to the server using the user name deploy and upload media to /srv/jellyfin/jellyfin/media.