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@girish Just wrote in. Thank you for your help.

@d19dotca thanks man, I’ll look in to your links and also take a look at the app-dev flag of people and see what I figure out!

Thanks!

@remuxer There's also a separate forum section if you need help with packaging existing apps for cloudron deployment - https://forum.cloudron.io/category/96/app-packaging-development

Given that our perspective is to be able to change anything on the system with a Cloudron update as we expect this environment to be fully under our control to minimize side-effects, which are very hard to debug, I would argue that making a mailman app package is the main way forward for this. This removes a lot of things out of the equation. Was there a specific reason why you didn't go that route initially?

I think git link / image registry link is the most flexible.

Essentially it could run the code that Cloudron CLI runs anyway.

@girish Thanks! I was hoping to get an official feature going - but thanks, I'll check the link out!

Just got some basic tests up and running for Homepage! You can find the repo here. It packages version 0.9.6 of homepage-cloudron. I hope to soon add a background color option to the config as well for the more minimalist crowd.

@girish what do you think the chances are of publishing this on the store?

@JOduMonT Yup, we are waiting for the next peertube release to make it stable (there is a bug in current release which makes it hard to finish the setup) and then start posting videos there.

For others looking for examples, there's a bunch of custom app templates I made that should help getting started:

https://git.cloudron.io/cloudron/tutorial-php-app/ https://git.cloudron.io/cloudron/tutorial-nodejs-app https://git.cloudron.io/cloudron/tutorial-basic https://git.cloudron.io/cloudron/tutorial-redis https://git.cloudron.io/cloudron/tutorial-supervisor-app

Not to mention that if your software is closed source you do not need to publish it for all cloudron users if only you want to use it. With a bit of technical knowledge you can build apps yourself (see the link from @mehdi), push it to a private registry and then use the cloudron cli to install it yo your instance.

I am actually hosting a few apps on my Cloudron that I am just building locally (Bitwarden for example before it was available as an official app).

If you don't make your app official you are of course on the hook for maintaining it, but you still benefit from the user management of Cloudron, automatic ssl and backups/easy restore.

https://simply-how.com/free-docker-container-registry lists a few hosted docker registries that offer free private repositories if you don't want to host your own.

Edit: as long as you only need one container you could even use the Docker Hub, as it offers one private image as well.

I would say:

Learn docker. This is the base deployment tool for Cloudron. No need to learn compose/swarm etc. Take some time to learn Heroku. Also see 12 factor app. A lot of ideas for Cloudron app deployment are inspired from these two PaaS concepts. Heroku can deploy lots of different frameworks/stacks, so just pick one you are comfortable with. And then the tutorial link above should be easy to follow. Without knowing 1 & 2, the tutorial can be hard to understand.

Finally, there is lots of code at https://git.cloudron.io/box (looks for -app suffixed repos).