Appreciating Cloudron’s controls over app updating

[sparkwise]

I wanted to express appreciation to the Cloudron team for great tooling to support reliable updates. The Etherpad app has changed quite a bit since the previous package, and a great set of platform-level features has made managing potentially breaking version updates very manageable:

• allowing user to specify exactly when auto-updates should run
• only auto-updating if the new version is marked as “stable”, with unstable updates available but not automatic
• allowing user to disable auto updates for specific app(s)
• cloning an app to test changes in a sandbox
• backups automatically created before each version update
• one-click to roll back to any past version

Together, these make it low-stress to manage big updates. Great work on the platform!