I have an Ansible playbook that I use to setup everything and all troubleshooting steps I ever had to take to fix something get written down in an Obsidian.md vault.

Compared to PhotoPrism for example Immich supports multiple users.

Immich is by far the best and most convenient.

I know but I also learned that it’s generally better to use the specific module for the package manager (just can’t remember why from the top of my head) and I never intended this playbook to be generally usable.

The apps service just borked itself and I couldn’t get it to properly start anymore. Also deploying apps always took a ridiculously and annoyingly long time (like about 15 minutes to deploy NPM).

Thank you! 🙂

It should be pretty easy to adapt it for Debian. The only thing you need to change as far as I can see is the usage of the dnf module to the apt module.

If you look inside the file you will see that it’s an encrypted file created via ansible-vault

I added the REDIS_HOSTNAME and DB_DATA_LOCATION environment variables. Not sure if I understood it right, but I guess not since it still doesn’t work:

- name: create Immich network
  community.docker.docker_network:
    name: immich-network
    state: present

- name: deploy Immich-Redis
  community.docker.docker_container:
    name: immich-redis
    image: registry.hub.docker.com/library/redis:6.2-alpine@sha256:84882e87b54734154586e5f8abd4dce69fe7311315e2fc6d67c29614c8de2672
    restart_policy: always
    networks: 
      - name: immich-network
    env:
      DB_DATABASE_NAME: "{{ immich_postgres_db_name }}"
      DB_USERNAME: "{{ immich_postgres_db_user }}"
      DB_PASSWORD: "{{ immich_postgres_db_password }}"
      DB_DATA_LOCATION: "{{ nvme_mount_point }}/immich/postgres"

- name: deploy Immich-Postgres
  community.docker.docker_container:
    name: immich-postgres
    image: registry.hub.docker.com/tensorchord/pgvecto-rs:pg14-v0.2.0@sha256:90724186f0a3517cf6914295b5ab410db9ce23190a2d9d0b9dd6463e3fa298f0
    restart_policy: always
    volumes:
      - "{{ nvme_mount_point }}/immich/postgres:/var/lib/postgresql/data"
    env:
      POSTGRES_DB: "{{ immich_postgres_db_name }}"
      POSTGRES_USER: "{{ immich_postgres_db_user }}"
      POSTGRES_PASSWORD: "{{ immich_postgres_db_password }}"
      REDIS_HOSTNAME: immich-redis
    networks: 
      - name: immich-network

- name: deploy Immich-Machine-Learning
  community.docker.docker_container:
    name: immich-machine-learning
    image: ghcr.io/immich-app/immich-machine-learning:release
    restart_policy: always
    volumes:
      - "{{ nvme_mount_point }}/immich/model-cache:/cache"
    networks: 
      - name: immich-network
    env:
      DB_DATABASE_NAME: "{{ immich_postgres_db_name }}"
      DB_USERNAME: "{{ immich_postgres_db_user }}"
      DB_PASSWORD: "{{ immich_postgres_db_password }}"
      DB_DATA_LOCATION: "{{ nvme_mount_point }}/immich/postgres"
      REDIS_HOSTNAME: immich-redis

- name: deploy Immich-Microservices
  community.docker.docker_container:
    name: immich-microservices
    image: ghcr.io/immich-app/immich-server:release
    restart_policy: always
    command: ['start.sh', 'microservices']
    volumes:
      - "{{ hdd_mount_point}}/immich/library:/usr/src/app/upload"
      - /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
    networks: 
      - name: immich-network
    env:
      DB_DATABASE_NAME: "{{ immich_postgres_db_name }}"
      DB_USERNAME: "{{ immich_postgres_db_user }}"
      DB_PASSWORD: "{{ immich_postgres_db_password }}"
      DB_DATA_LOCATION: "{{ nvme_mount_point }}/immich/postgres"
      REDIS_HOSTNAME: immich-redis

- name: deploy Immich-Server
  community.docker.docker_container:
    name: immich-server
    image: ghcr.io/immich-app/immich-server:release
    restart_policy: always
    command: ['start.sh', 'immich']
    volumes:
      - "{{ hdd_mount_point}}/immich/library:/usr/src/app/upload"
      - /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
    ports:
      - "2283:3001"
    networks: 
      - name: immich-network
    env:
      DB_DATABASE_NAME: "{{ immich_postgres_db_name }}"
      DB_USERNAME: "{{ immich_postgres_db_user }}"
      DB_PASSWORD: "{{ immich_postgres_db_password }}"
      DB_DATA_LOCATION: "{{ nvme_mount_point }}/immich/postgres"
      REDIS_HOSTNAME: immich-redis

This is what I have now and I get the following error in immich-server and immich-microservices:

[Nest] 7  - 05/02/2024, 3:45:01 PM   ERROR [TypeOrmModule] Unable to connect to the database. Retrying (1)...
Error: getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND database
    at GetAddrInfoReqWrap.onlookupall [as oncomplete] (node:dns:118:26)

Edit: It works! I forgot to add DB_HOSTNAME

This confuses me because the default docker-compose.yml from Immich doesn’t set these environment variables.

I recently began learning Ansible and this playlist was very helpful with learning.

I don’t know from the top of my head and I can’t check right now.

Hetzner also supports snapshots and you can upload files uncompressed.

I’m using the Immich app from TrueNAS, how do I properly update it? Or is it being taken care off by TrueNAS?

Edit: I asked on the TrueNAS discord for help and someone who already updated their Immich figured out how to fix the installation afterwards. I copy&paste the guide here:

This guide assumes that Heavyscript is installed and pgAdmin.
https://github.com/Heavybullets8/heavy_script
https://truecharts.org/charts/stable/pgadmin/

• Upgrade Immich to v.1.95.1.

• If Immich fails to deploy check the logs heavyscript pod --logs immich. If the logs complain that indexes need to be deleted continue with this guide.

• Access the shell for the postgres pod heavyscript pod -s immich.

• Select the postgres pod.

• Inside the pod run env and record the password. Then type exit to exit the pod.

• Get the DNS address and port for Immich postgres pod. heavyscript dns -a

• Launch pgAdmin and right-click on Servers select Register > Server.

• In the Connection tab put the hostname and port from step 6. The username is immich and use the password from step 3.

• Once connected create a backup by expanding Servers > Immich > Databases and right-click on immich then select Backup.... Follow the prompts to create a backup.

• Right-click on immich and select Query Tool.

• Use the following query to delete your indexes.

    FROM pg_index X JOIN
         pg_class I ON I.oid = X.indexrelid JOIN
         pg_am A ON A.oid = I.relam
    WHERE A.amname = 'vectors';

• Stop Immich with heavyscript heavyscript app --stop immich.

• Once all pods have scaled down start Immich heavyscript app --start immich.

The SQL query will complain about a syntax error but it will work regardless. It just takes some time to redeploy immich.

Credit goes to @verbalsiegeengine on Discord

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For me Photoprism is unusable for the simple fact that they don’t support multiple users. Also Photoprism doesn’t have an official app which I can easily use on my phone to sync photos.

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I tried Photoprism a few days ago and it still doesn’t support multiple users. It also doesn’t have an app. The Immich app is really great and it’s stupidly simple to setup auto backup of your phone camera.

Immich is great. Works so much better as a photo storage than Nextcloud does.

I think I had the same problem not so long ago. Every proxy host was working except NPM itself. My problem was that I just entered the wrong IP for the proxy host. I had to enter localhost or 127.0.0.1 to get it to work and everything else was like the tutorial you linked (I followed the same one)

Since you want NPM to proxy to itself but using the SSL certificate and the domain you set in the proxy host.