munnerz/kube-plex
Scalable Plex Media Server on Kubernetes -- dispatch transcode jobs as pods on your cluster! observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
32/100
- Activity 0
- Release rhythm 35
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_releases
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 4013
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 1254
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
1243 stars · 182 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
kube-plex is a scalable Plex Media Server deployment for Kubernetes that offloads transcoding work to ephemeral pods across the cluster. It works by replacing the Plex Transcoder binary with a shim that dispatches transcode jobs as Kubernetes pods using shared persistent volumes.
Use cases
- run a scalable Plex Media Server on Kubernetes
- distribute Plex transcode jobs across cluster nodes as pods
- offload transcoding from the Plex server instance to spare cluster capacity
- deploy Plex with Helm and persistent volume claims for media
- transcode media using NFS or EFS ReadWriteMany shared storage
When to choose
- you already run Kubernetes and want Plex transcoding to scale across nodes
- your media storage is on a ReadWriteMany volume like NFS or EFS
- you want transcode workloads isolated in pods instead of burdening the PMS instance
When to avoid
- you run Plex on a single machine or Docker host without Kubernetes
- your storage does not support ReadWriteMany persistent volumes
- you need a project with frequent updates and active development
Facets
application · maturity maintenance
container-orchestration video-processing deployment media self-hosted self-hosted go plex transcoding helm-chart media-server distributed-transcoding containers video kubernetes docker
1 source
- readme: https://github.com/munnerz/kube-plex · fetched 2026-08-28 · bde1f08cc1c0
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| munnerz/kube-plex | main | 32 |
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