Add Tailscale Sidecar to Jellyfin

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tjohnsrud
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Add Tailscale Sidecar to Jellyfin

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Hello!

I am going to give YAMS a try on my OMV home server and I wanted to know if my idea sounds reasonable or not before I give it a go.

My thought is to add a tailscale sidecar to the Jellyfin container so that I can simply access it from any device on my tailnet. It would also simplify sharing the server with family as I could just share the one node with them and they should be able to access it. I've seen some good guides on youtube about adding the sidecar, but my main question is should I add it in the docker-compose.yaml or create a separate Jellyfin container in the docker-compose.custom.yaml to achieve this?

In my head I see this as a way of avoiding having to set up reverse proxy etc... And I don't want to just give other users an exit node onto my network to access the server, so making Jellyfin it's own node seems to be the smartest idea.

Thoughts, tips, tricks?

For reference, these are the two videos I'm basing the idea off:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqvvZhGrciQ&t=418s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTjYXii4WzI

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Re: Add Tailscale Sidecar to Jellyfin

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Hey @tjohnsrud!

It looks like that should work! But really the only way to know for sure is by trying it.

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