With Peertube you can create your own video portal. Today I show how I installed Peertube on my Synology Diskstation.
Step 1: Prepare Synology
The first thing to do is to enable SSH login on Diskstation. To do this, go to the “Control Panel” > “Terminal
After that you can log in via “SSH”, the specified port and the administrator password.
I log in via Terminal, winSCP or Putty and leave this console open for later.
Step 2: Prepare Docker folder
I create a new directory called “Peertube” in the Docker directory.
After that I go to the Peertube directory and create a new file called “peertube.yml” with the following content. For the port, the front part “9000:” can be customized. The second volume contains all videos, playlist, thumbnails etc… and therefore must be adjusted.
version: "3.7"
services:
peertube:
image: chocobozzz/peertube:contain-buster
container_name: peertube_peertube
ports:
- "9000:9000"
volumes:
- ./config:/config
- ./videos:/data
environment:
- TZ="Europe/Berlin"
- PT_INITIAL_ROOT_PASSWORD=password
- PEERTUBE_WEBSERVER_HOSTNAME=ip
- PEERTUBE_WEBSERVER_PORT=port
- PEERTUBE_WEBSERVER_HTTPS=false
- PEERTUBE_DB_USERNAME=peertube
- PEERTUBE_DB_PASSWORD=peertube
- PEERTUBE_DB_HOSTNAME=postgres
- POSTGRES_DB=peertube
- POSTGRES_USER=postgres
- POSTGRES_PASSWORD=postgres
- PEERTUBE_REDIS_HOSTNAME=redis
- PEERTUBE_ADMIN_EMAIL=himself@christian-knedel.de
depends_on:
- postgres
- redis
restart: "always"
networks:
- peertube
postgres:
restart: always
image: postgres:12
container_name: peertube_postgres
volumes:
- ./postgresql:/var/lib/postgresql/data
environment:
- POSTGRES_USER=peertube
- POSTGRES_PASSWORD=peertube
- POSTGRES_DB=peertube
networks:
- peertube
redis:
image: redis:4-alpine
container_name: peertube_redis
volumes:
- ./redis:/data
restart: "always"
networks:
- peertube
expose:
- "6379"
networks:
peertube:
This file is started via Docker Compose:
$ sudo docker-compose -f compose-file-name.yml up -d
The username is “root” and the password is “password” (or step 2 / PT_INITIAL_ROOT_PASSWORD).
Theme customization
The appearance of Peertube is very easy to customize. To do this, I click on “Administration” > “Settings” and “Advanced settings”.
There I entered the following in the CSS field:
body#custom-css {
--mainColor: #3598dc;
--mainHoverColor: #3598dc;
--mainBackgroundColor: #FAFAFA;
--mainForegroundColor: #888888;
--menuBackgroundColor: #f5f5f5;
--menuForegroundColor: #888888;
--submenuColor: #fff;
--inputColor: #fff;
--inputPlaceholderColor: #898989;
}
Rest API
PeerTube has an extensive and well documented Rest API: https://docs.joinpeertube.org/api-rest-reference.html.
Searching for videos is possible with this command:
$ curl -s "http://pree-tube/api/v1search/videos?search=docker&languageOneOf=de"
#!/bin/bash
USERNAME="user"
PASSWORD="password"
API_PATH="http://peertube-adresse/api/v1"
client_id=$(curl -s "$API_PATH/oauth-clients/local" | jq -r ".client_id")
client_secret=$(curl -s "$API_PATH/oauth-clients/local" | jq -r ".client_secret")
token=$(curl -s "$API_PATH/users/token" \
--data client_id="$client_id" \
--data client_secret="$client_secret" \
--data grant_type=password \
--data response_type=code \
--data username="$USERNAME" \
--data password="$PASSWORD" \
| jq -r ".access_token")
curl -s '$API_PATH/videos/upload'-H 'Authorization: Bearer $token' --max-time 11600 --form videofile=@'/scripte/output.mp4' --form name='mein upload'
My tip: Read “Great things with containers: making Docker services more secure with LDAP and NGINX”.
I run my Peertube with a reverse proxy. This means that only LDAP users can access this service. I have documented this setup under “Great things with containers: making Docker services more secure with LDAP and NGINX”.