Change IP adress of Plex Server

[LouisB]

Hello,
I have installed a Plex Server on my newly installed FreeNAS SCALE 21.06.
The PlexServer is bridged on the same IP as my FreeNAS on 192.168.2.5, I want to change the IP of my Plex to 192.168.2.6 and keep my file server on 192.168.2.5

I have looked around, how can I do it?

 

[ornias]

Not with the official App and for TrueCharts we even actively removed that feature during 21.06-BETA during testing.
It's just simply not how k8s is supposed to be used.

Once other loadbalancers get released, this should be relatively trivial to do :)

 

[LouisB]

I would love to understand more about this.

 

[j_r0dd]

I would love to understand more about this.

A change is needed to the k3s.service to use something like MetalLB to properly expose services on the LAN with a loadBalancerIP of your choosing. The load balancer that k3s includes, Klipper, isn’t a true load balancer in the sense and more or less just a hack. This needs to be disabled to be able to use MetalLB.

 

[ornias]

This needs to be disabled to be able to use MetalLB.

That is not technically true, it's possible to use MetalLB with klipper installed, it's just very ill-adviced :)

Just wait till iX addresses these issues, thats the "SCALE" wait of doing this. I assure you it is on their radar!

 

[Muddro]

I ended up using the plex docker from hotio instead of the app. In the deploy docker, you can set an ip. Only thing I dont like about it though is no hostname shows up ok my router. It's just a random Mac address Everytime it deploys.

 

[ornias]

In the deploy docker, you can set an ip

The thing is: The way iX is doing this, is mostly a hack/bypass of half of kubernetes, that will or might cause issues in the future.
We at TrueCharts experimented with it, but removed it before 21.06-BETA because we simply cannot provide support for the issues it might cause...

 

[Muddro]

The thing is: The way iX is doing this, is mostly a hack/bypass of half of kubernetes, that will or might cause issues in the future.
We at TrueCharts experimented with it, but removed it before 21.06-BETA because we simply cannot provide support for the issues it might cause...

I am totally new to kubernetes, so I am playing around with different deployments. Much appreciated to you and your team for creating true charts. I am getting more comfortable with the idea of everything sharing the host ip address I guess, just have to remember a bunch of new ports now. Not a big deal.

As an aside, with truecharts, is there something unique about the way the network works? I am having issues with sonarr connecting to plex.

 

[ornias]

I am totally new to kubernetes, so I am playing around with different deployments. Much appreciated to you and your team for creating true charts. I am getting more comfortable with the idea of everything sharing the host ip address I guess, just have to remember a bunch of new ports now. Not a big deal.

In the future I'm pretty sure other k8s "loadbalancers" will be possible, which would allow seperate IP's for seperate services.

As an aside, with truecharts, is there something unique about the way the network works? I am having issues with sonarr connecting to plex.

Using internal DNS names connecting to internal services.
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