# munnerz/kube-plex

Scalable Plex Media Server on Kubernetes -- dispatch transcode jobs as pods on your cluster!

Repository: https://github.com/munnerz/kube-plex
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/kube-plex
Language: Go
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2023-03-28T21:31:15+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4013, "days_push": 1254, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1243, forks 182 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:06.737657+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: application
- maturity: maintenance
- function: container-orchestration, video-processing, deployment
- domain: media, self-hosted
- platform: self-hosted, go
- tags: plex, transcoding, helm-chart, media-server, distributed-transcoding, containers, video, kubernetes, docker

## Member repositories
- munnerz/kube-plex (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:06.737657+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T05:08:20.374442+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/munnerz/kube-plex (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:06.737657+00:00, sha bde1f08cc1c0)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.