Prowlarr

Indexer manager and proxy for Sonarr, Radarr, and other *arr applications — centralizes indexer configuration across your media stack.

Warning

Requires ocijail ≥ 0.6.0 (annotation support). This image needs the jail permission allow.mlock, applied via OCI annotations. FreeBSD quarterly ships ocijail 0.4.0, which has no annotation support — the container starts but the permission is silently dropped, so the app can crash or misbehave at runtime. Point your pkg repos at the latest branch (ocijail ≥ 0.6.0), then run with the annotation flag below. See the ocijail guide.

Port	9696
Registry	ghcr.io/daemonless/prowlarr
Source	https://github.com/Prowlarr/Prowlarr
Website	https://prowlarr.com/

Version Tags

Tag	Description	Best For
latest	Upstream Binary. Built from official release.	Most users. Matches Linux Docker behavior.
develop	Develop branch — pre-release/beta channel, more tested than nightly. One-way DB migrations; back up /config before switching back to release.	Alternative build.
nightly	Nightly branch — bleeding-edge pre-release build. One-way DB migrations; back up /config before switching back to release.	Alternative build.
pkg	FreeBSD Quarterly. Uses stable, tested packages.	Production stability.
pkg-latest	FreeBSD Latest. Rolling package updates.	Newest FreeBSD packages.

Prerequisites

Before deploying, ensure your host environment is ready. See the Quick Start Guide for host setup instructions.

Deployment

Podman Compose

services:
  prowlarr:
    image: "ghcr.io/daemonless/prowlarr:latest"
    container_name: prowlarr
    environment:
      - PUID=1000  # User ID for the application process
      - PGID=1000  # Group ID for the application process
      - TZ=UTC  # Timezone for the container
    volumes:
      - "/path/to/containers/prowlarr:/config"
    ports:
      - "9696:9696"
    annotations:
      org.freebsd.jail.allow.mlock: "true"
    restart: unless-stopped

AppJail Director

.env:

# .env

DIRECTOR_PROJECT=prowlarr
PUID=1000
PGID=1000
TZ=UTC

appjail-director.yml:

# appjail-director.yml

options:
  - virtualnet: ':<random> default'
  - nat:
services:
  prowlarr:
    name: prowlarr
    options:
      - container: 'boot args:--pull'
      - expose: '9696:9696 proto:tcp' \
    oci:
      user: root
      environment:
        - PUID: !ENV '${PUID}'
        - PGID: !ENV '${PGID}'
        - TZ: !ENV '${TZ}'
    volumes:
      - prowlarr: /config
volumes:
  prowlarr:
    device: '/path/to/containers/prowlarr'

Makejail:

# Makejail

ARG tag=latest

OPTION overwrite=force
OPTION from=ghcr.io/daemonless/prowlarr:${tag}
SET allow.mlock=1

Note: Exposing ports in AppJail means that your service can be reached from remote hosts. If that is not your intention, do not expose the ports and communicate with the service using the IPv4 address assigned by the virtual network.

Podman CLI

podman run -d --name prowlarr \
  -p 9696:9696 \
  --annotation 'org.freebsd.jail.allow.mlock=true' \
  -e PUID=1000 \
  -e PGID=1000 \
  -e TZ=UTC \
  -v /path/to/containers/prowlarr:/config \
  ghcr.io/daemonless/prowlarr:latest

AppJail

appjail oci run -Pd \
  -o overwrite=force \
  -o container="args:--pull" \
  -o virtualnet=":<random> default" \
  -o nat \
  -o expose="9696:9696 proto:tcp" \
  -e PUID=1000 \
  -e PGID=1000 \
  -e TZ=UTC \
  -o fstab="/path/to/containers/prowlarr /config <pseudofs>" \
  ghcr.io/daemonless/prowlarr:latest prowlarr

Note: Exposing ports in AppJail means that your service can be reached from remote hosts. If that is not your intention, do not expose the ports and communicate with the service using the IPv4 address assigned by the virtual network.

Ansible

- name: Deploy prowlarr
  containers.podman.podman_container:
    name: prowlarr
    image: "ghcr.io/daemonless/prowlarr:latest"
    state: started
    restart_policy: always
    env:
      PUID: "1000"
      PGID: "1000"
      TZ: "UTC"
    ports:
      - "9696:9696"
    volumes:
      - "/path/to/containers/prowlarr:/config"
    annotation:
      org.freebsd.jail.allow.mlock: "true"

Access at: http://localhost:9696

Parameters

Environment Variables

Variable	Default	Description
PUID	1000	User ID for the application process
PGID	1000	Group ID for the application process
TZ	UTC	Timezone for the container

Volumes

Path	Description
/config	Configuration directory

Ports

Port	Protocol	Description
9696	TCP	Web UI

Architectures: amd64 User: bsd (UID/GID via PUID/PGID, defaults to 1000:1000) Base: FreeBSD 15.1

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