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Kavita

Kavita

Kavita

Kavita is a self-hosted digital library for books, comics, and manga.

Configuration

Image

To use kavita, it needs to be included in your generated image. Upudate your build configuration to include it.

.config/my-server-build
{
  "containers": [
    "kavita"
  ]
}

Service

A systemd container unit for kavita has been included in automatos-server. This container unit file serves as a baseline and requires additional customizations from the user to run kavita successfully.

etc/containers/systemd/kavita.container
[Unit]
Description=Container service for Kavita
Requires=network-online.target nss-lookup.target zfs.target
After=network-online.target nss-lookup.target zfs.target

[Container]
ContainerName=%p
Image=ghcr.io/kareadita/kavita:latest
Volume=${CONTAINER_PATH}/config:/kavita/config:Z
PublishPort=${WEB_PORT}:5000
Environment=DOTNET_GLOBALIZATION_INVARIANT=true
AutoUpdate=registry

[Service]
EnvironmentFile=/etc/environment
ExecCondition=/usr/bin/test -d "${CONTAINER_PATH}/config"
Restart=on-failure

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target

Customizations

Environment Variables

The following environment variables are used to configure the kavita container. The values provided are notional. Customeize these values to suit your needs.

/etc/containers/systemd/kavita.container.d/01-variables.conf
[Container]
Environment=TZ=Etc/Utc

[Service]
Environment=CONTAINER_PATH=/path/to/kavita/volumes
Environment=WEB_PORT=5000

Volumes

The following volumes are utilized by kavita. They need to be defined before kavita will execute successfully.

/etc/containers/systemd/kavita.container.d/02-volumes.conf
[Container]
Volume=/path/to/literature:/literature:z,rw,rslave,rbind

[Service]
ExecCondition=/usr/bin/test -d "/path/to/literature"

References

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