Install NVIDIA drivers (optional if doing GPU transcoding). Install ubuntu package to identify the drivers necessary for your particular GPU
apt install ubuntu-drivers-common
List the graphics devices to get the nvidia drivers needed
ubuntu-drivers devices
Install latest drivers (replace xxx with driver package you want to use)
apt install nvidia-drivers-xxx
After install the driver package will also install the ubuntu GUI environment, this will turn it back off. (skip this step if you want the GUI for some reason)
systemctl set-default multi-user
Reboot system, done !
shutdown -r now
Setup Plex Hardware inside Container
Installing the NVIDIA container toolkit
# Update apt.
sudo apt-get update
# Install the nvidia-docker2 package.
sudo apt-get install -y nvidia-docker2
# Restart Docker.
sudo systemctl restart docker
# Test the GPU with a base CUDA container.
sudo docker run --rm --gpus all nvidia/cuda:11.0.3-base-ubuntu20.04 nvidia-smi
After running all command above and installed all package, the final result should display as below
watch -n0.1 nvidia-smi
# Output
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 510.73.05 Driver Version: 510.73.05 CUDA Version: 11.6 |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU Name Persistence-M| Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap| Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. |
| | | MIG M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
| 0 Quadro P2000 Off | 00000000:0B:00.0 Off | N/A |
| 44% 31C P8 5W / 75W | 2MiB / 5120MiB | 0% Default |
| | | N/A |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes: |
| GPU GI CI PID Type Process name GPU Memory |
| ID ID Usage |
|=============================================================================|
| No running processes found |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
After confirming the result, we can deploy plex server following this instruction
