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What's coming in 6.0 (take 2)

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  • girishG Offline
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    girish
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    wrote on last edited by
    #30

    Some updates on volume management. There is now a volume view.

    51ffb468-f11f-41cf-813f-c36e10ae0e3c-image.png

    You add a host path as a volume and give it a name. This is most likely some EBS/external hard disk/Block Storage. There is also the file manager integration (the button next to the delete button).

    You can then go to the app view and mount these volumes into the apps. There is a new Storage section.

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    There is a section overload in the app configure view 🙂 We are looking to reducing the list of sections in the left pane. It's making things hard to find.

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      #31

      This looks wonderful!

      Off the top of my head, I could see the Console + Repair sections being merged and the Resources + Access Control + Location sections being merged. But honestly I am struggling to come up with names so I suppose thats why you have them the way you have them now.

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      • girishG girish

        Some updates on volume management. There is now a volume view.

        51ffb468-f11f-41cf-813f-c36e10ae0e3c-image.png

        You add a host path as a volume and give it a name. This is most likely some EBS/external hard disk/Block Storage. There is also the file manager integration (the button next to the delete button).

        You can then go to the app view and mount these volumes into the apps. There is a new Storage section.

        88466958-b414-40ae-bff6-32edf6dac6bc-image.png

        There is a section overload in the app configure view 🙂 We are looking to reducing the list of sections in the left pane. It's making things hard to find.

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        wrote on last edited by
        #32

        @girish Amazing!

        It's almost like you develop with the power of telepathy sometimes 🙇

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        • girishG girish

          Some updates on volume management. There is now a volume view.

          51ffb468-f11f-41cf-813f-c36e10ae0e3c-image.png

          You add a host path as a volume and give it a name. This is most likely some EBS/external hard disk/Block Storage. There is also the file manager integration (the button next to the delete button).

          You can then go to the app view and mount these volumes into the apps. There is a new Storage section.

          88466958-b414-40ae-bff6-32edf6dac6bc-image.png

          There is a section overload in the app configure view 🙂 We are looking to reducing the list of sections in the left pane. It's making things hard to find.

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          wrote on last edited by
          #33

          @girish Any chance of you adding a button in for resizing the partition after upgrading a VM?

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          • marcusquinnM marcusquinn

            @girish Any chance of you adding a button in for resizing the partition after upgrading a VM?

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            Staff
            wrote on last edited by
            #34

            @marcusquinn Not for this release but hope to implement more volume management tools (like mounting nfs/sshfs, backing up volumes, resizing etc) as we go.

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            • LonkleL Offline
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              #35

              Not a feature I was expecting but I know I'll take advantage of it. This is pretty cool!

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              • marcusquinnM marcusquinn

                @girish Any chance of you adding a button in for resizing the partition after upgrading a VM?

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                wrote on last edited by
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                @marcusquinn said in What's coming in 6.0 (take 2):

                @girish Any chance of you adding a button in for resizing the partition after upgrading a VM?

                +1

                Resizing my backup volume on Hetzner is one of the few reasons I have to occasionally ssh into my VPS.

                I use Cloudron with Gandi & Hetzner

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                • robiR Offline
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                  #37

                  Externalizing a volume to a Minio/S3/Object store would be nice.

                  Conscious tech

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                  • robiR robi

                    Externalizing a volume to a Minio/S3/Object store would be nice.

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                    @robi
                    s3 filesystem are not so mature, i read a lot on them because use s3 with dovecot in our mail server and the performance are terrible in u use s3 as FS, 20/40 ms depending on where you host the s3 server.

                    The optimal solution is to use plugin or software that integrate s3 in to the App/script that you want to use.

                    Matteo. R.
                    Founder and Tech-Support Manager.
                    MooCloud MSP
                    Swiss Managed Service Provider

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                      mehdi
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                      #39

                      @girish I could not have imagined a better system ! Looks amazing !

                      Three questions:

                      1/ How do you decide where in the app these are gonna be mounted? Is it in the same path for all apps ? Or could I create a given volume, and mount it at /app/data/toto in app 1 and /app/data/tata in app 2 ?

                      2/ How does it work when there already is data in the app's original /app/data before you mount the volume to it? Is it just hidden as long as the volume is mounted?

                      3/ How does it work with regards to backups?

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                        For 1 and 2: Those volumes will be mounted into the apps based on /media/<volumename> and thus one volume associated with apps will always have the same mountpoint within the apps.

                        For 3: Initially those won't be backed up at all, but we will likely add optional backup per volume as well. The user has to be aware of the fact that volumes are not part of the app backups as such!

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                        • nebulonN nebulon

                          For 1 and 2: Those volumes will be mounted into the apps based on /media/<volumename> and thus one volume associated with apps will always have the same mountpoint within the apps.

                          For 3: Initially those won't be backed up at all, but we will likely add optional backup per volume as well. The user has to be aware of the fact that volumes are not part of the app backups as such!

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                          @nebulon said in What's coming in 6.0 (take 2):

                          For 1 and 2: Those volumes will be mounted into the apps based on /media/<volumename> and thus one volume associated with apps will always have the same mountpoint within the apps.

                          For 3: Initially those won't be backed up at all, but we will likely add optional backup per volume as well. The user has to be aware of the fact that volumes are not part of the app backups as such!

                          That’s the difference to storage mounted in „Resources“ - this will get backed up, correct?

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                            The volumes are setup outside of the apps first and are essentially independent. Once you've created a volume you can then mount that into an app via the Storage section in the app configuration. Even if mounted though, it will not be part of the app backup, since the main reason for volumes is to be mounted into multiple apps. For that we have to first figure out how to manage those with regards to backups.

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                            • nebulonN nebulon

                              The volumes are setup outside of the apps first and are essentially independent. Once you've created a volume you can then mount that into an app via the Storage section in the app configuration. Even if mounted though, it will not be part of the app backup, since the main reason for volumes is to be mounted into multiple apps. For that we have to first figure out how to manage those with regards to backups.

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                              @nebulon That makes sense. I’m of the opinion that optional block storage should effectively be backed up at the host level not the application level. In other words, taking a snapshot or something like that which many providers allow even volumes / block storage to be snapshotted. Much like how we need to snapshot our actual VPS on occasion too for a backup strategy of the entire server.

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                              • nebulonN nebulon

                                The volumes are setup outside of the apps first and are essentially independent. Once you've created a volume you can then mount that into an app via the Storage section in the app configuration. Even if mounted though, it will not be part of the app backup, since the main reason for volumes is to be mounted into multiple apps. For that we have to first figure out how to manage those with regards to backups.

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                                @nebulon said in What's coming in 6.0 (take 2):

                                The volumes are setup outside of the apps first and are essentially independent. Once you've created a volume you can then mount that into an app via the Storage section in the app configuration. Even if mounted though, it will not be part of the app backup, since the main reason for volumes is to be mounted into multiple apps. For that we have to first figure out how to manage those with regards to backups.

                                No, I mean external volumes that you can currently already move the data dir to under „Resources“ in the app settings - this gets backed up, correct?

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                                  We haven't decided on the naming yet, but maybe Volumes can be instead renamed to External Media or something, if it clarifies things. Open to other suggestions as well.

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                                  • MooCloud_MattM MooCloud_Matt

                                    @robi
                                    s3 filesystem are not so mature, i read a lot on them because use s3 with dovecot in our mail server and the performance are terrible in u use s3 as FS, 20/40 ms depending on where you host the s3 server.

                                    The optimal solution is to use plugin or software that integrate s3 in to the App/script that you want to use.

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                                    wrote on last edited by
                                    #46

                                    @MooCloud_Matt this is only true if you use dumb S3 connectors that treat it like a filesystem instead of an object store.

                                    It's a very different experience when things are treated properly as objects.

                                    Conscious tech

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                                      Re: Volumes - I think this will create a solution for something that I have been trying to resolve - i.e. Nextcloud app backups WITHOUT the data!

                                      I want to be able to back up the app via Cloudron natively - but backup the data via borg/restic/kopia or the like. This looks like it could resolve this issue if the data was an attached volume. Very much looking forward to this feature if it's like that.

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                                        Re: Volumes - I think this will create a solution for something that I have been trying to resolve - i.e. Nextcloud app backups WITHOUT the data!

                                        I want to be able to back up the app via Cloudron natively - but backup the data via borg/restic/kopia or the like. This looks like it could resolve this issue if the data was an attached volume. Very much looking forward to this feature if it's like that.

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                                        girish
                                        Staff
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                                        @iqweb said in What's coming in 6.0 (take 2):

                                        Re: Volumes - I think this will create a solution for something that I have been trying to resolve - i.e. Nextcloud app backups WITHOUT the data!

                                        Yes, I think this will solve that use case. You mount a volume into nextcloud and configure nextcloud to use it as external storage.

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                                        • girishG girish

                                          @iqweb said in What's coming in 6.0 (take 2):

                                          Re: Volumes - I think this will create a solution for something that I have been trying to resolve - i.e. Nextcloud app backups WITHOUT the data!

                                          Yes, I think this will solve that use case. You mount a volume into nextcloud and configure nextcloud to use it as external storage.

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                                          @girish can you also mount an ‘on server’ folder like that?

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