Cloudron makes it easy to run web apps like WordPress, Nextcloud, GitLab on your server. Find out more or install now.


Skip to content
  • Categories
  • Recent
  • Tags
  • Popular
  • Bookmarks
  • Search
Skins
  • Light
  • Cerulean
  • Cosmo
  • Flatly
  • Journal
  • Litera
  • Lumen
  • Lux
  • Materia
  • Minty
  • Morph
  • Pulse
  • Sandstone
  • Simplex
  • Sketchy
  • Spacelab
  • United
  • Yeti
  • Zephyr
  • Dark
  • Cyborg
  • Darkly
  • Quartz
  • Slate
  • Solar
  • Superhero
  • Vapor

  • Default (No Skin)
  • No Skin
Collapse
Brand Logo

Cloudron Forum

Apps | Demo | Docs | Install
  1. Cloudron Forum
  2. App Packaging & Development
  3. Idea: Unofficial Custom App Import Repo

Idea: Unofficial Custom App Import Repo

Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved App Packaging & Development
7 Posts 5 Posters 1.1k Views 6 Watching
  • Oldest to Newest
  • Newest to Oldest
  • Most Votes
Reply
  • Reply as topic
Log in to reply
This topic has been deleted. Only users with topic management privileges can see it.
  • robiR Offline
    robiR Offline
    robi
    wrote on last edited by robi
    #1

    As more and more nifty custom apps and configurations are made using the LAMP, Surfer and other Apps, it would be nice to have a way to share them more easily via backup config exports for those apps.

    An open read-only S3 store can be made easily from public providers or private Minio installs to host those backups for easy import.

    Anyone interested in setting up something like this?

    I'd be contributing some of my configs and exports so folks don't have to start from scratch.

    This would also open up the App ecosystem to run Apps currently unavailable in the App store, more app testing, experimentation and opportunity for new Cloudron users.

    Who's in?

    Conscious tech

    1 Reply Last reply
    6
    • girishG Offline
      girishG Offline
      girish
      Staff
      wrote on last edited by
      #2

      Interesting idea! I guess this is like a set of app templates, if I understood correctly? Won't the templates need description, package version etc to make them usable?

      robiR 1 Reply Last reply
      1
      • necrevistonnezrN Offline
        necrevistonnezrN Offline
        necrevistonnezr
        wrote on last edited by
        #3

        Cool idea!

        1 Reply Last reply
        0
        • L Offline
          L Offline
          lukas
          wrote on last edited by
          #4

          Nice, which apps do you have in mind?

          1 Reply Last reply
          0
          • girishG girish

            Interesting idea! I guess this is like a set of app templates, if I understood correctly? Won't the templates need description, package version etc to make them usable?

            robiR Offline
            robiR Offline
            robi
            wrote on last edited by robi
            #5

            @girish said in Idea: Unofficial Custom App Import Repo:

            Interesting idea! I guess this is like a set of app templates, if I understood correctly?

            Yes!

            Won't the templates need description, package version etc to make them usable?

            Yes and no. It's nice to have the detail, which is what makes it useful, but they would still be usable even if it's a surprise as in "Let's see what this one does!".

            Working together on this to bridge the gap between all the info a packaged app needs and what an app backup describes when submitted via some web interface... to keep them aligned. Like a stepping stone..

            The custom apps are going to come with all the info from the base Cloudron app anyhow, so it can be the template for the app(s) installed within too.

            Conscious tech

            1 Reply Last reply
            1
            • timconsidineT Offline
              timconsidineT Offline
              timconsidine
              App Dev
              wrote on last edited by timconsidine
              #6

              Nice idea @robi

              The self-packaging capability of Cloudron is great, but I get the impression few (relatively) install a custom app, even after the hard work of initial packaging has been done.
              That nasty terminal-thingy (joke, it’s not nasty) seems a mental block for many.
              Having an app which has been installed, backed up as fairly empty instance and shared for restoring then using for real seems a good way to get over ’terminal terror’.
              If I’m understanding the suggestion correctly

              robiR 1 Reply Last reply
              0
              • timconsidineT timconsidine

                Nice idea @robi

                The self-packaging capability of Cloudron is great, but I get the impression few (relatively) install a custom app, even after the hard work of initial packaging has been done.
                That nasty terminal-thingy (joke, it’s not nasty) seems a mental block for many.
                Having an app which has been installed, backed up as fairly empty instance and shared for restoring then using for real seems a good way to get over ’terminal terror’.
                If I’m understanding the suggestion correctly

                robiR Offline
                robiR Offline
                robi
                wrote on last edited by
                #7

                @timconsidine right, much of the CLI finesse needed to get something running can be snapshotted via the app backup, which when restored just runs without fiddling.

                So yes, more App happiness on Cloudron.

                Conscious tech

                1 Reply Last reply
                2
                Reply
                • Reply as topic
                Log in to reply
                • Oldest to Newest
                • Newest to Oldest
                • Most Votes


                • Login

                • Don't have an account? Register

                • Login or register to search.
                • First post
                  Last post
                0
                • Categories
                • Recent
                • Tags
                • Popular
                • Bookmarks
                • Search