Presently I’m running my media directory and sqlite database on NFS (one big single-point-of-failure). My Kubernetes Deployment resource is configured to use the “Replace” rollout strategy (at least I think that’s what it’s called if i’m not misremembering) so there are never two concurrent instances. This means I take downtime during rollouts, but it’s fine for my use case.

One of the more difficult bits (which is not really Jellyfin’s fault) is that the application must run on nodes with access to an adequate GPU to handle any on demand transcode tasks, which requires making the GPU available to them Kubernetes pod and also telling the scheduler which nodes have a GPU and which do not. For that I used node feature discovery along with some intel specific plugin for the GPU (my GPU was an integrated intel GPU).