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  • Looking to collaborate? Post here if you need help or willing to offer help.

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    osoboO
    Hello everyone, I am developing a non-profit animation studio and would like to ask for help in packaging the Kitsu production tracker app. I would like to use it on my Cloudron instance where authenticated users would be able to access-it. I've submitted the app to the Cloudron wish list, but I don't expect it to be picked up any time soon. The developers provide a docker file, but for some reason it is not recommended for production. If anyone is interested, please send me a direct message and we can discuss compensation. Best wishes OsObO
  • App contributions hall of fame

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    @girish Missed that message. Yeah, Open WebUI is the one that made it to published. I've made several other things but they're mostly to learn packaging/tests (such as a standalone DB app, etc.)
  • Translators hall of fame

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    nebulonN
    Public registration is off on that, but we do add language maintainers manually if needed. See https://docs.cloudron.io/i18n/#maintaining-translations Since we have native German speakers on the team, we are maintaining that internally, however you can suggest changes via the weblate instance for any strings and I will review those then.
  • Read first before starting to package an app

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    I guess the current link would be https://docs.cloudron.io/packaging/tutorial/
  • Building custom packages

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    girishG
    @Grienauer We haven't yet had a case where different data directories of apps cannot be symlinked to a subdirectory /app/data . It keeps backup/restore logic simple if we limit to one folder. Do you have an app in mind which cannot do this? Usually, we manage to change apps to use supervisor and thus package multiple containers into one. I guess it's possible to implement this, we haven't yet.
  • Writing automated tests for packages

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    BrutalBirdieB
    @nebulon Yea I just wanted to reply never mind, I copied the tests from the alltube app which do not even use selenium so yeeaa my mistake. Now I took the nextcloud tests and will learn from them
  • Cloudron Non-App Store Packaged Apps

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    @matbrgz added to the post at the top!
  • RomM App For Cloudron

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    murgeroM
    @nebulon I'm still rebuilding it to use the cloudron base image, currently my source tree (though not up to date) is https://git.cloudron.io/murgero/romm-cloudron. This is likely to change when the rewrite is done, waiting for upstream to merge a patch that fixes a crucial bug to get this working on cloudron.
  • Installing packages next to cloudron

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    andreasduerenA
    @necrevistonnezr It's working, but it is running next to Cloudron which isn't really optimal. I wanted to test and see if it breaks anything though, currently there seem to be no issues.
  • Base image documentation

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    timconsidineT
    I think it’s down to FacilMap needing yarn 3.6.3 and some more recent node version. Although I’m not sure
  • Custom APP - EvolutionAPI Unofficial WhatsAPP API

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    @timconsidine I have set this up in coolify and works really smooth and well. End to end I can confidently say it would take me 10 minutes to show you how to do this. Send me a reply and I will happily help
  • Blossom Server package

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    robiR
    Using @Kubernetes Easy Installer one can try this easily.
  • Using AI to build a package

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    robiR
    Here is an example session of how to better "talk to" the AI so it understands what you're doing. https://skylarbpayne.com/posts/cursed-cursor Having it analyze a similar app and start with the manifest, then have a template process to follow will get it closer to what you want. It's all about clearer communication on your part.
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    I'm not 100% sure about that, I mean the total of ubuntu base images on my instance is around 80GB, each image from the app store takes between 2 and 4GB. Next to those, my alpine image is less than 100MB. Yet I find that 100MB is still way too big, I can likely reduce that. And based on docker images listing and du, each image seems to really take an average 2.9GB. ~# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on tmpfs 1.6G 3.3M 1.6G 1% /run /dev/sda3 588G 77G 482G 14% / tmpfs 7.9G 0 7.9G 0% /dev/shm tmpfs 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock /dev/sda2 2.0G 170M 1.7G 10% /boot u426552@u426552.your-storagebox.de:/home/storage/music 1.0T 63G 962G 7% /mnt/volumes/8c4c2f7f0e8a44e090fc857a64b1f316 u426552@u426552.your-storagebox.de:/home 1.0T 63G 962G 7% /mnt/cloudronbackup overlay 588G 77G 482G 14% /var/lib/docker/overlay2/941561b6b216ede950e95d525f676defe98425be86c02edd6737e95e848d3487/merged overlay 588G 77G 482G 14% /var/lib/docker/overlay2/a47d7cd82e5ba37dc642d53159323dd0be0e080d0c59f44656ff39e86fd8077f/merged overlay 588G 77G 482G 14% /var/lib/docker/overlay2/84c4252012d0d027e49529377605b19cdde5385594120b9215ec8f4b601997f1/merged overlay 588G 77G 482G 14% /var/lib/docker/overlay2/e4fd2d9876ba48aa5b1a3890192af605268b1b06914f074cd51538e5cd8e732e/merged overlay 588G 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/var/lib/docker/overlay2/c8fb2e965fa85ce289436eb96e56584a06765cade5f2cd7d43f77b930fefb928/merged overlay 588G 77G 482G 14% /var/lib/docker/overlay2/992c00fe84e55e8aa06eafa32ccac9251ce194af33082a711ea6ef7812818285/merged overlay 588G 77G 482G 14% /var/lib/docker/overlay2/704413a277d07d199ae7801cd9c812ec9db6f61870582468ad0c34c855924af5/merged overlay 588G 77G 482G 14% /var/lib/docker/overlay2/13e0b0ac613a3bb2769e75def0d88c476399849faf55b0b54a44c11ffd693040/merged overlay 588G 77G 482G 14% /var/lib/docker/overlay2/2afe0cb63975cfb247549d41319f40d1b2eab5ece8645fccbb999715da1472d2/merged overlay 588G 77G 482G 14% /var/lib/docker/overlay2/e159b65ba533df6c3df4d9b6b5c4ebbbb53c337e9cf882e6b104072f535826fa/merged overlay 588G 77G 482G 14% /var/lib/docker/overlay2/19aa6f3f67da9f897ca14b16f3dd58e776481c8f88a7df6147f6b9d0c3dc5229/merged overlay 588G 77G 482G 14% /var/lib/docker/overlay2/c1867646b12beaad46d3332f566dd9ef3acccc39f459dd93259679965ab0b2ce/merged overlay 588G 77G 482G 14% /var/lib/docker/overlay2/1863229ae55deed6b180bcb7086b166041bcf84caf862dc7162eb1f4cb0cdadb/merged tmpfs 1.6G 0 1.6G 0% /run/user/0 root@vmi1545666:~# docker images REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED SIZE cloudron/org.navidrome.cloudronapp 202412221800040000 955f3ed8bda9 29 hours ago 2.26GB <REDACTED_MY_APP_REF> 1.0.9 342c00f06dd1 41 hours ago 95.5MB cloudron/app.miniflux.cloudronapp 202412202203500000 3ab5b7255d6f 3 days ago 2.23GB cloudron/com.invoiceninja.cloudronapp2 202412201425110000 114bf2ee41e6 3 days ago 4.32GB cloudron/com.github.bitwardenrs 202412201132130000 b07e9c5ab7d5 3 days ago 3.55GB cloudron/calibreweb.janeczku.github 202412200520170000 c4c0b840c65a 3 days ago 3.49GB cloudron/lamp.cloudronapp.php74 202412180703290000 35ef2ed19d95 5 days ago 2.64GB cloudron/io.changedetection.cloudronapp 202412170520280000 5d612c3fbb5c 6 days ago 3.99GB cloudron/io.gitea.cloudronapp 202412131720400000 fec9c8c07eca 10 days ago 2.8GB cloudron/com.github.shaarli 202412081824370000 f174ed03ee2d 2 weeks ago 2.23GB cloudron/net.syncthing.cloudronapp2 202412031651540000 c7a0a056a716 2 weeks ago 2.24GB cloudron/org.wordpress.cloudronapp 202411220220380000 f04002c311c5 4 weeks ago 2.37GB cloudron/info.privatebin.cloudronapp 202411161255100000 c3b260ef0b6d 5 weeks ago 2.21GB cloudron/org.getgrav.cloudronapp 202410281158520000 d52bf6ab8b2b 8 weeks ago 2.29GB cloudron/tech.ittools.cloudron 20241022-105954-145356468 387ecffe94e3 2 months ago 2.22GB registry.docker.com/cloudron/redis 3.5.4 edcfcc0608c6 2 months ago 2.22GB registry.docker.com/cloudron/sftp 3.8.9 c595fcbbe0a3 4 months ago 2.23GB registry.docker.com/cloudron/postgresql 5.2.3 c0270fdfd54f 5 months ago 2.75GB registry.docker.com/cloudron/mysql 3.4.3 f1c143716f42 5 months ago 2.53GB registry.docker.com/cloudron/mail 3.13.1 ac386518998a 6 months ago 2.89GB cloudron/sh.ntfy.cloudronapp 20240514-072708-5696fd1ad 2a1124f439c9 7 months ago 2.26GB registry.docker.com/cloudron/mongodb 6.0.0 4b95d24318a2 10 months ago 2.69GB cloudron/com.docker.registry 20240208-085138-349b78ba6 68797f159e9f 10 months ago 2.24GB cloudron/com.rssbridgeapp.cloudronapp 20240203-090049-661e61c5a 6990eceaa76a 10 months ago 2.21GB cloudron/org.yourls.cloudronapp 20231024-061626-421eac647 e89d47b182e4 14 months ago 2.22GB registry.docker.com/cloudron/graphite 3.4.3 dbd026164ada 14 months ago 2.28GB registry.docker.com/cloudron/turn 1.7.2 152b1fb9690e 15 months ago 2.22GB registry.docker.com/cloudron/base 4.2.0 6ec7c1ab3983 15 months ago 2.21GB I'm used to replacing GBs worth of binaries/code and services and thousands-dollars worth SaaS with simple shell scripts and python scripts, it's all fun for me to see how little things can avoid the bloat and costs we are used to with modern software and architecture. We shouldn't need 4GB worth of code to generate a pdf (invoiceninja), I mean it's literally done with 4K worth of python code. A base image being 2.2GB in size is a red flag for me (at work but not only). Anyway, I won't start a crusade, this base image solves problems, but I'm not gonna base my minimalist stuff on something 20 times as big as my big Docker image
  • Developer perspective

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    Paying cloudron customers view...I went for cloudron because of its easy automated mail server, and the nextcloud app. The other fluff was just nice to haves initially. Even now theres no app thats essential to me. I think cloudrons popularity is due to them getting it right, and app devs getting their apps on cloudron acts mostly as a promotion of the app they make. ie I'd never heard of clearflask, until your post here.
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  • cloudron gitlab 404s on create new project

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    Yep, that worked!
  • Publish an Official App Packaging Roadmap

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    @humptydumpty said in Publish an Official App Packaging Roadmap: As for app packaging, if I’m not mistaken, Cloudron staff take over and handle any future updates if it’s added to the App Store. I don’t expect every niche app will get adopted but the highly voted/starred apps that fill a gap in CR’s ecosystem will have a higher chance. CR could enhance/simply how custom repos/apps are added. Some of the regulars on here have shared their own packaged apps, but the process isn’t clear to me yet. That’s something worth looking into though. Sigh, too much to do and not enough time! That's the main difference to platforms like Yunohost, where you have a ton of user packaged apps.... - that don't work, break, become unmaintained etc.
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    Wow thanks @nebulon . I think it would have been necessary one day or another with the current AI hype. By the way I'd be glad to share my "cloudron packaging prompt engineering" techniques some when. I'll make a second try with another app, I am thinking appsmith
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    ok. thanks for the fast answer.
  • Packaging an app (tutorial)

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    @mdc773 there is a video at https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/2843/read-first-before-starting-to-package-an-app which @fbartels made