Self-host Emby with Docker

A media server that organizes your movies, shows, and music and streams them to any device.

This page describes the Levelrail template for Emby (Media). It deploys the services below as one Docker Compose app on your own server.

Project site: https://emby.media/support/articles/Home.html.

Recommended memory: about 1024 MiB.

Services, ports and volumes

Service	Image	Container ports	Volumes
emby	lscr.io/linuxserver/emby:latest	8096	emby_config -> /config emby_tvshows -> /tvshows emby_movies -> /movies

Environment variables

Service	Variable	Value
emby	PGID	Preset in the template
emby	PUID	Preset in the template
emby	TZ	Preset in the template

Passwords and keys marked as generated are created for you when the app is deployed and stored as secrets. Values are not shown here.

Deploy Emby with Levelrail

In the dashboard, open Apps, choose New app, then Browse templates, and select Emby. Review the Compose body and deploy.

With the CLI:

levelrail-cli templates deploy emby --name my-emby

See Service template catalog for how templates work, and Getting started if you have not installed Levelrail yet.

More Media templates

• Audiobookshelf
• Bazarr
• Calibre-Web
• Castopod
• Grimmory
• Immich

All templates are listed in the self-host gallery.