Prowlarr

Description / name	Input element
Container Registry
Container Configuration Root Path
Timezone
User ID
Group ID
Prowlarr Host Port
Prowlarr /config Path

Indexer manager and proxy for Sonarr, Radarr, and other *arr applications — centralizes indexer configuration across your media stack.

Requires ocijail with annotation support (≥ 0.6.0)

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. Point your pkg repos at the latest branch (ocijail ≥ 0.6.0) and run with the annotation flag shown below. See the ocijail guide.


Port	`9696`
Registry	`ghcr.io/daemonless/prowlarr`
Daemonless	daemonless/prowlarr
Source	Prowlarr/Prowlarr
Website	prowlarr.com

Version Tags

Tag	Description	Best For
`latest`	Upstream Binary. Built from official release.	Most users — recommended.
`develop`	Develop branch — pre-release/beta channel, more tested than nightly. One-way DB migrations; back up /config before switching back to release.	Alternative build.
`nightly`	Nightly branch — bleeding-edge pre-release 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.	Staying current.

Before deploying, ensure your host environment is ready. See the Quick Start Guide for host setup instructions, including the security model for host vs. container privileges.

Deployment

Podman AppJail

Compose CLI Ansible

services:
  prowlarr:
    image: "ghcr.io/daemonless/prowlarr:latest"
    container_name: prowlarr
    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/prowlarr:/config"
    ports:
      - "9696:9696"
    annotations:
      org.freebsd.jail.allow.mlock: "true"
    restart: unless-stopped

podman run -d --name prowlarr \
  -p 9696:9696 \
  --annotation 'org.freebsd.jail.allow.mlock=true' \
  -e PUID=1000 \
  -e PGID=1000 \
  -e TZ=UTC \
  -v /path/to/containers/prowlarr:/config \
  ghcr.io/daemonless/prowlarr:latest

- name: Deploy prowlarr
  containers.podman.podman_container:
    name: prowlarr
    image: "ghcr.io/daemonless/prowlarr:latest"
    state: started
    restart_policy: always
    env:
      PUID: "1000"
      PGID: "1000"
      TZ: "UTC"
    ports:
      - "9696:9696"
    volumes:
      - "/path/to/containers/prowlarr:/config"
    annotation:
      org.freebsd.jail.allow.mlock: "true"

Director CLI

# .env

DIRECTOR_PROJECT=prowlarr
PUID=1000
PGID=1000
TZ=UTC

# appjail-director.yml

options:
  - virtualnet: ':<random> default'
  - nat:
services:
  prowlarr:
    name: prowlarr
    options:
      - container: 'boot args:--pull'
      - expose: '9696:9696 proto:tcp'
    oci:
      user: root
      environment:
        - PUID: !ENV '${PUID}'
        - PGID: !ENV '${PGID}'
        - TZ: !ENV '${TZ}'
    volumes:
      - PROWLARR_CONFIG_PATH: /config
volumes:
  PROWLARR_CONFIG_PATH:
    device: '/path/to/containers/prowlarr'

# Makejail

ARG tag=latest

OPTION overwrite=force
OPTION from=ghcr.io/daemonless/prowlarr:${tag}
SET allow.mlock=1

appjail oci run -Pd \
  -o overwrite=force \
  -o container="args:--pull" \
  -o virtualnet=":<random> default" \
  -o nat \
  -o expose="9696:9696 proto:tcp" \
  -e PUID=1000 \
  -e PGID=1000 \
  -e TZ=UTC \
  -o fstab="/path/to/containers/prowlarr /config <pseudofs>" \
  ghcr.io/daemonless/prowlarr:latest prowlarr

Access at: http://localhost:9696

Interactive Configuration

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

Ports

Port	Protocol	Description
`9696`	TCP	Web UI

Implementation Details

Architectures: amd64
User: bsd (UID/GID set via PUID/PGID). Defaults to 1000:1000.
Base: Built on ghcr.io/daemonless/base (FreeBSD 15.1).
mlock: Requires --annotation 'org.freebsd.jail.allow.mlock=true' (ocijail 0.5.0+)

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