pez-infra/docs/hosts/london-b.md
Rasmus Wejlgaard dfc833efc9 chore: retire readarr service, replaced by bookshelf
Bookshelf (PR #122) is a Readarr revival and now owns port 8787 on
london-b, so the old custom Readarr systemd unit is removed:

- drop readarr from the media_stack role's unit-deploy and enable loops,
  and add an idempotent decommission task (stop, disable, remove unit)
  so the host tears it down via Ansible rather than ad-hoc SSH
- delete services/readarr/readarr.service
- update docs (services, london-b host, service inventory) to describe
  bookshelf as a Docker service instead of a custom systemd unit

The public readarr.pez.sh hostname is kept and now reverse-proxies to
bookshelf on :8787 — DNS, Caddy and Authelia (pez_readarr_users group)
are unchanged.
2026-06-06 15:49:32 +01:00

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london-b

Primary storage and media server. The workhorse of the fleet.

Overview

Location London (NW9)
OS Ubuntu 24.04
Tailscale IP 100.84.65.101
Role Storage, media serving, Docker services

Hardware

Component Spec
CPU AMD Threadripper 3970X (64 threads)
Memory 64 GB
GPU Nvidia GTX 980
Boot disk 500 GB
Storage pool ~87 TB raw / ~64 TB usable (ZFS)

This machine is ridiculously overpowered as a media server. It's my old gaming/workstation PC repurposed into server duty. The GPU helps with Plex transcoding but the CPU can handle it fine on its own.

Storage

ZFS pool hdd: 3× RAIDZ1 vdevs, 4 drives each (12 drives total).

Metric Value
Used ~61 TB
Free ~26 TB
Total ~87 TB raw
Usage ~70%
Scrub Weekly (Sundays at 12:00, cron /sbin/zpool scrub hdd)

RAIDZ1 tolerates one drive failure per vdev. With this many drives and this much data, ZFS checksumming is essential — silent data corruption on spinning disks is real and you don't want to find out about it years later.

Roadmap: the long-term plan is to gradually replace the 8 TB drives with 24 TB drives and grow the pool toward 24 drives / ~0.5 PB raw.

Services

Media Servers

Service Port URL
Plex 32400 plex.pez.sh
Jellyfin 8096 jellyfin.pez.sh
Navidrome 4533 music.pez.sh

Media Automation

Service Port URL
Radarr 7878 radarr.pez.sh
Sonarr 8989 sonarr.pez.sh
Lidarr 8686 lidarr.pez.sh
Bookshelf (Readarr revival, Docker) 8787 readarr.pez.sh
Prowlarr 9696 prowlarr.pez.sh
Transmission 9091 download.pez.sh
Jellyseerr 5055 request.pez.sh
Overseerr (snap) 5056 jellyfin-requests.pez.sh

Other

Service Port URL
Nextcloud AIO 11000 cloud.pez.sh (internal)
Miniflux 8181 rss.pez.sh
slskd (Soulseek) 5030 soulseek.pez.sh
Syncthing (syncthing@pez) 8384 (LAN / Tailscale)
Ollama 11434 (Tailscale)
smartctl_exporter 9633 (Alloy scrape)
prom-plex-exporter 9594 (Alloy scrape)

Systemd Services (non-Docker)

The media automation suite and several supporting services run as native systemd units, not in Docker:

Service Unit Name Notes
Sonarr sonarr Package-managed (mono)
Radarr radarr /opt/Radarr, custom unit
Prowlarr prowlarr /opt/Prowlarr, custom unit
Lidarr lidarr /opt/Lidarr, custom unit
Whisparr whisparr /opt/Whisparr, custom unit (disabled)
Plex plexmediaserver Package-managed
Jellyfin jellyfin Package-managed
Transmission transmission-daemon Package-managed
Samba smbd Package-managed
Ollama ollama /usr/local/bin, custom unit
Syncthing syncthing@pez Package-managed, user instance
vsftpd vsftpd FTP server for /hdd/ftp
systemd_exporter systemd_exporter Ansible-managed
node_exporter prometheus-node-exporter apt-managed
Alloy alloy Grafana Alloy, fleet-managed config

Docker services: Nextcloud AIO, Jellyseerr, Navidrome, slskd, Miniflux (with postgres sidecar), smartctl-exporter, plex-exporter.

Snap: Overseerr (latest/beta channel).

Cron Jobs

Schedule Job
Every hour /root/scripts/movie-rename-fix.fish
Midnight daily systemctl restart radarr
Midnight daily systemctl restart sonarr
22:00 daily /root/scripts/backup.sh (rclone to Backblaze B2)
Sundays 12:00 /sbin/zpool scrub hdd

Samba Shares

Share Path Access
HDD /hdd pez, root (rw)
Movies /hdd/movies public (ro)
TV Shows /hdd/tv public (ro)
pve /hdd/pve london-a Proxmox (rw) — ISO/template/backup storage

Media is served directly from the ZFS pool. Docker root (/hdd/docker) and PVE storage (/hdd/pve) live on the pool too.

Networking

Connected via Cat 5 to the Ubiquiti switch in the utility closet. 1 Gbit LAN connection.