Spotify like server using navidrome and expose via cloudflared

Hello,

Recently after visiting some friends they shared they were doing their home server and that they were using plex and navidrome. I thought it was quite cool, to be able to have my own “Spotify like” server at home. I do have some playlists on m3u and I felt it would be nice to be able to listen to them at home or externally. Considering all the buzz around AI, I decided to play with AI and do the setup.

I started asking about differences between navidrome and plex and decided to go with Plex, for my mobile phone app I decided to use Flo (ios) and also to use cloudflare (cloudclared, tunnel) as well.

By interacting with Gemini and ChatGPT, I got to the following:

services:
  navidrome:
    image: deluan/navidrome:latest
    container_name: navidrome
    user: 1000:1000
    network_mode: host
    ports:
      - 4533:4533
    volumes:
      - /home/server/system/navidrome/:/data:Z
      - /mnt/data/music:/music:ro
    restart: unless-stopped
    environment:
      - TZ=America/Sao_Paulo
      - SCAN_INTERVAL=1h
    dns:
      - 8.8.8.8
      - 8.8.4.4

I faced some challenges:

• SELinux wasn’t playing nice with volumes and some other stuff, in the end I changed it to be permissive
• Firewall rules (had to add the firewall port too)
• Had to add the DNS there (not sure why)

This made the service available in my local network. After that I decided to expose it via cloudflare tunnel, by interacting with Gemini, I got the following:

  cloudflared:
    image: cloudflare/cloudflared:latest
    container_name: cloudflared
    restart: unless-stopped
    environment:
      - TUNNEL_TOKEN=<cloudflaredtunneltoken>
    command: tunnel run
    network_mode: host

Accessed the cloudflare web UI, created a tunnel, added it in a domain like navi.home.com pointing to my home IP:4533 and it worked flawlessly. Later had to configure my Flo app to use my home server too, but well. This was quite simple