Run Plex rootless.

A one-stop destination to stream movies, TV shows, and music, Plex is the most comprehensive entertainment platform available today. Available on almost any device, Plex is the first-and-only streaming platform to offer free ad-supported movies, shows, and live TV together with the ability to easily search—and add to your Watchlist—any title ever made, no matter which streaming service it lives on. Using the platform as their entertainment concierge, 17 million (and growing!) monthly active users count on Plex for new discoveries and recommendations from all their favorite streaming apps, personal media libraries, and beyond.

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What can I do with this? This image will run Plex rootless for maximum security and performance.

Why should I run this image and not the other image(s) that already exist? Good question! Because ...

If you value security, simplicity and optimizations to the extreme, then this image might be for you.

Below you find a comparison between this image and the most used or original one.

• /plex/etc - Directory of Plex configuration

name: "media"

x-lockdown: &lockdown
  # prevents write access to the image itself
  read_only: true
  # prevents any process within the container to gain more privileges
  security_opt:
    - "no-new-privileges=true"

services:
  plex:
    image: "11notes/plex:1.42.1"
    <<: *lockdown
    environment:
      TZ: "Europe/Zurich"
    volumes:
      - "plex.etc:/plex/etc"
    tmpfs:
      # /plex/tmp is required in read-only mode (can be used for transcode too)
      - "/plex/tmp:size=8G,uid=1000,gid=1000"
    ports:
      - "32400:32400/tcp"
    networks:
      frontend:
    restart: "always"

volumes:
  plex.etc:

networks:
  frontend:

These are the main tags for the image. There is also a tag for each commit and its shorthand sha256 value.

• 1.42.1

It is of my opinion that the :latest tag is dangerous. Many times, I’ve introduced breaking changes to my images. This would have messed up everything for some people. If you don’t want to change the tag to the latest semver, simply use the short versions of semver. Instead of using :1.42.1 you can use :1 or :1.42. Since on each new version these tags are updated to the latest version of the software, using them is identical to using :latest but at least fixed to a major or minor version.

If you still insist on having the bleeding edge release of this app, simply use the :rolling tag, but be warned! You will get the latest version of the app instantly, regardless of breaking changes or security issues or what so ever. You do this at your own risk!

docker pull 11notes/plex:1.42.1
docker pull ghcr.io/11notes/plex:1.42.1
docker pull quay.io/11notes/plex:1.42.1

• 11notes/plex

• [11notes/debian:stable](${{ json_readme_parent_url }})

• plex
• 11notes/util

This image is provided to you at your own risk. Always make backups before updating an image to a different version. Check the releases for breaking changes. If you have any problems with using this image simply raise an issue, thanks. If you have a question or inputs please create a new discussion instead of an issue. You can find all my other repositories on github.

created 28.08.2025, 16:15:33 (CET)