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App package development & help

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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
  • Cloudron Typescript App Example Using Old Docker Base Image

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    nebulonN
    Thanks for the reminder, I have updated that file now with the new base image.
  • XMPP Server - Prosody

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    @girish - Given that the only blocker (that I know of so far) is the TLD certificate availability, would it be a decent workaround to package this entire thing as an application, and then run a one-time command to symlink the TLD certificate into the application directory? This would allow the sys admin to choose which application deserves access to the TLD certificate, ensure the app always has access to the latest certificate, and work around the current limitation of apps not being able to request the TLD cert.
  • Need help resolving Error with Monero Node in Cloudron.

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    I think that is just the docker image and not the docker file - https://hub.docker.com/r/jacobmatrktippetts/monero-node
  • Can't install custom app anymore via CLI, constantly retrying

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    nebulonN
    Maybe a temporary issue with your private docker registry or otherwise. Lets see if next time we have more info to work with.
  • Downloading image fails, constantly retrying

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  • Problems with Postgres Addon

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    I solved the port issue as well. The problem occured when I tried to start an interactive shell, which counted as starting a second application inside the cloudron app, that's where the port conflict came from. If someone else is working with Elixir on Cloudron, you can start an interactive shell like this: /app/_build/prod/rel/APP/bin/APP remote
  • Installing custom Apps on Cloudron

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    As a relatively new member of the Cloudron community (especially compared to @scooke) I can see both points of view. The current collection of apps is very eclectic, spanning both personal and business. And to a certain extent that reflects the wide range of our community - a strength. I do not envy @girish and team trying to please all of us. It is both thankless and impossible. But one person's "must have" app is another person's "who cares". The danger is losing members if their needs are not met with the applications they need or want. Perhaps having a simplified installation process would allow more people to customize their Cloudrons as desired. And yes, despite the warnings that you are on your own, I am sure that support questions will arise. And the spirit of the Cloudron team and the community to help will always prevail. As long as these questions are within reasonable limits, perhaps this will allow the platform to grow more valuable without being overwhelmed. I would suggest that custom-installed apps have its own topic area, especially if the results could be hidden from search engines to prevent prospective members getting the wrong impression about Cloudron's reliability per @scooke 's valid concerns. Finally, I am personally interested in a business-oriented, custom-app platform where Dockerized applications can be hosted in a well-thought out and architected environment like Cloudron. We are exploring several ideas along these lines, including adding some private applications we have created, others we have paid to license, and some that are open source. And these systems would require incremental Cloudrons - helping to grow the revenue stream. In the end, that's the idea, isn't it...
  • Crontab not running in custom LAMP

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    girishG
    @alex-uxlabsmx should work now. there were a couple of issues in the crontab: '&' in the end of the cron line. this puts the command in the background. cronjobs are not run in background and instead run on a schedule. so, the '&' should be removed. 'source' command is a bash primitive. you have to wrap it in bash -c "source ... && anothercommand", for example seems to work after that.
  • read-only file system, rmdir '/dist'

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    nebulonN
    I am not familiar with how nestjs works during startup, but something tries to wholesale rm the /dist folder. I guess it tries to rebuild the app on startup? You may have to copy the app from read-only to /run first thing in start.sh and then start the app and not symlink the folder? Just a guess though.
  • Update app : Read-only file system

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    Glad you got it sorted out!
  • Langfuse packaging issue

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  • How to package third-party apps, with example

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    Thank you for the detailed response! Since this app doesn't run the LLM itself, the system requirements are less heavy. But wouldn't everything that wasn't attached to Cloudron just run inside the container? I mean, let's say I write a dockerfile for this app, but "forget" to use the postgres addon of cloudron. Wouldn't the app still run, but with the database inside the app, so it would be overwritten upon updating? Other than that, this app seems to have a sandbox container and one for vector databases, which couldn't be rebuilt easily in Cloudron.
  • App packaging tip for easier building

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    @girish To make it more clear, I have made a template repository with all the files and scripts I usually use for my Cloudron apps. In the future, we might benefit from adopting such a strategy for the Cloudron CLI init script by using these files as a template/starter Cloudron app project. It'd make maintenance easier, more uniform, and make the process less daunting for new app devs. https://github.com/Lanhild/starter-cloudron
  • Multi-Stage Dockerfiles

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    girishG
    @Lanhild yup, we already started using multi-stage builds by now. For app store, you have to pin the images though. Using ":latest" is not good will have to be changed.
  • Question about app versions updates

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    LanhildL
    Got it. Thanks for the answer!
  • App wishlist - raw data

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    @girish scroll and copy > chatgpt
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  • Help needed to package KoboToolBox & iHRIS V5 apps

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    necrevistonnezrN
    There‘s a whole category for that: https://forum.cloudron.io/category/5/app-wishlist I‘d suggest creating one topic per app. If your app generates enough interest, some kind soul might gift you (and us) with their spare time
  • Put reverse-proxy in front of arbitrary apps

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    nebulonN
    It would reach it via the public domain I would guess, so it is not dependent on the local docker network addresses. All this is not an elegant solution for sure but to have this well supported we would need to have a quite sophisticated reverseproxy/nginx config UI somehow.
  • Pocketbase packaging

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    i have to test it in production so i've done it here : https://git.cloudron.io/nils/pocketbase i may improve this package ,handling Cloudron user management and email configuration if people or i find interest in it .