Use Cloudron with external web applications

[rtyu1120]

Hello, I'm planning to use Cloudron as the main system on my home server, but I'm curious it can be well-bundled with apps that not supporting Cloudron for now. So how can I run web applications not supporting Cloudron without any conflicts?

[nebulon]

To ensure apps run well alongside each other and the system components can be safely updated by Cloudron releases, other apps have to be packaged in a certain way. Mostly this comes down to dockerize them with a few additional constraints put in place by Cloudron (for example all apps run on a read-only filesystem) You can read more about how to package apps at https://cloudron.io/developer/packaging/

If your apps are lamp based, then the lamp app in the appstore is usually sufficient to ensure they run without issues alongside each other.

[girish]

@rtyu1120 Curious to know what kind of apps you have. We are thinking of adding "developer stacks" to Cloudron (for example, MEAN app template etc).

[rtyu1120]

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[rtyu1120]

@nebulon Thanks, Cloudron packaging is not so hard than I thought. Thank you for your nice answer.

[rtyu1120]

@girish I want to run HackMD CE, Funkwhale, Prosody and other some self-hosted applications that are not available in Cloudron.

[fbartels]

@rtyu1120 for hackmd there is already some progress https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/1222/hackmd-fast-and-flexible-real-time-collaborative-markdown/10