Updates to build service
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Hi all,
We have reworked our build service to make it easy to run custom apps (as mentioned in https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/1958/upcoming-apps). We will have the docs and a blog post later this week, but long story short, you can now install the build service (which was previously a service hosted by us) on your Cloudron itself. The build service is an app that you install on Cloudron just like any other app (it's opensource at https://git.cloudron.io/cloudron/cloudron-build-service). Once installed,cloudron build
will ask you for the credentials to the installed build service and you are good to go. One the Cloudron side, there is a UI to set custom registry auth information (this will be part of 4.3 which will also be released in a day or two).The changes are getting deployed as we speak. Do NOT use the build service app yet on a production system. We are still testing out all the edge cases.
The buildbot will thus be down moving forward. To build your custom apps in the mean time, do this:
- Setup docker locally on your PC/laptop
docker build -t username/myimage:tag
in your codedocker push username/myimage:tag
cloudron install --image username/myimage:tag
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@yusf Don't even need buildbot anymore (architecturally). We integrated docker based images into the platform proper. https://cloudron.io/documentation/custom-apps/tutorial/ (It's all part of 4.3 which is mostly rolled out now, will make release announcement tomorrow).
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@yusf The build service app claims it might remove docker images in use by other apps so be careful - otherwise I've been using the same install method since I started using cloudron - looks like the process is the same, and they also streamlined it some which is great as well!
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@yusf Correct, it is best to run the build service app in a separate cloudron. Essentially, the build service is building a lot of docker images. It "cleans up" old images periodically. For both of these operations, it requires full access to docker. There is a chance that it removes containers/images of the other apps on Cloudron by mistake. As in, this would be a bug but if someone hits that bug on a production Cloudron that would be a disaster. This is the reason why we recommend running it on a separate Cloudron.
Finally, the build service app is not required at all. You can just build and push images from your laptop or a linux VM or some VPS which has docker.
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Using this app / build service on a local Cloudron instance - is there a way to take the
push
out of thecloudron build
aspect of this since it's all local. Would save a lot of time when developing locally (if it's even feasible, I don't understand the purpose of thepush
part tbh). -
@MooCloud_Matt setting that up would be a nice how-to writeup for all the folks that want to try installing packaged apps not yet in the app store.