Sonarr

Automated TV series collection manager that monitors, grabs, and manages your TV library via Usenet and BitTorrent.

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	8989
Registry	ghcr.io/daemonless/sonarr
Source	https://github.com/Sonarr/Sonarr
Website	https://sonarr.tv/

Version Tags

Tag	Description	Best For
latest	Upstream Binary. Built from official release.	Most users. Matches Linux Docker behavior.
develop / nightly	Develop branch — Sonarr's pre-release channel, also published as develop. Sonarr has no separate nightly branch, so nightly and develop are the same 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:
  sonarr:
    image: "ghcr.io/daemonless/sonarr:latest"
    container_name: sonarr
    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/sonarr:/config"
      - "/path/to/tv:/tv" # optional
      - "/path/to/downloads:/downloads" # optional
    ports:
      - "8989:8989"
    annotations:
      org.freebsd.jail.allow.mlock: "true"
    restart: unless-stopped

AppJail Director

.env:

# .env

DIRECTOR_PROJECT=sonarr
PUID=1000
PGID=1000
TZ=UTC

appjail-director.yml:

# appjail-director.yml

options:
  - virtualnet: ':<random> default'
  - nat:
services:
  sonarr:
    name: sonarr
    options:
      - container: 'boot args:--pull'
      - expose: '8989:8989 proto:tcp' \
    oci:
      user: root
      environment:
        - PUID: !ENV '${PUID}'
        - PGID: !ENV '${PGID}'
        - TZ: !ENV '${TZ}'
    volumes:
      - sonarr: /config
      - tv: /tv
      - downloads: /downloads
volumes:
  sonarr:
    device: '/path/to/containers/sonarr'
  tv:
    device: 'tv'
  downloads:
    device: 'downloads'

Makejail:

# Makejail

ARG tag=latest

OPTION overwrite=force
OPTION from=ghcr.io/daemonless/sonarr:${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 sonarr \
  -p 8989:8989 \
  --annotation 'org.freebsd.jail.allow.mlock=true' \
  -e PUID=1000 \
  -e PGID=1000 \
  -e TZ=UTC \
  -v /path/to/containers/sonarr:/config \
  -v /path/to/tv:/tv # optional \
  -v /path/to/downloads:/downloads # optional \
  ghcr.io/daemonless/sonarr:latest

AppJail

appjail oci run -Pd \
  -o overwrite=force \
  -o container="args:--pull" \
  -o virtualnet=":<random> default" \
  -o nat \
  -o expose="8989:8989 proto:tcp" \
  -e PUID=1000 \
  -e PGID=1000 \
  -e TZ=UTC \
  -o fstab="/path/to/containers/sonarr /config <pseudofs>" \
  -o fstab="/path/to/tv /tv <pseudofs>" \ # optional
  -o fstab="/path/to/downloads /downloads <pseudofs>" \ # optional
  ghcr.io/daemonless/sonarr:latest sonarr

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 sonarr
  containers.podman.podman_container:
    name: sonarr
    image: "ghcr.io/daemonless/sonarr:latest"
    state: started
    restart_policy: always
    env:
      PUID: "1000"
      PGID: "1000"
      TZ: "UTC"
    ports:
      - "8989:8989"
    volumes:
      - "/path/to/containers/sonarr:/config"
      - "/path/to/tv:/tv" # optional
      - "/path/to/downloads:/downloads" # optional
    annotation:
      org.freebsd.jail.allow.mlock: "true"

Access at: http://localhost:8989

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
/tv	TV Series library (Optional)
/downloads	Download directory (Optional)

Ports

Port	Protocol	Description
8989	TCP	Web UI

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

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