Feature request: Add custom app to App Store for local Cloudron
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One option would be to include all the Metadata as a layer for the image, making it self contained and having its own layer ID.
That way we're tagging what is needed.
JFrog did this in a similar way, see https://jfrog.com/knowledge-base/what-is-the-docker-image-layer-marker/
Much simpler than tagging files across multiple image layers, etc.
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Am I reading this topic right that there is currently no way to install an app from a git repo apart from either:
- submitting to official app store
- using CLI
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Would love to make our app available to install in an easy way, but not ready for app store publication (yet)
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Hi @tennox, welcome to Cloudron! What's your app? Does it have a Wishlist post?
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Hi there @marcusquinn
I'm working on packaging a ready-to-roll IPFS node with:
- kubo (which was requested in this wishlist ... by you
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- a ucan proxy to enable an authenticated upload API
See this ipfs forum post for the origin story
I have successfully packaged it & deployed it to our cloudron, with a few open questions left (like configuration), and when it's ready I would submit it to the cloudron app store - but I would love to be able to give users an option to install it without needing to clone the repo and running CLI
- kubo (which was requested in this wishlist ... by you
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@tennox said in Feature request: Add custom app to App Store for local Cloudron:
I would love to be able to give users an option to install it without needing to clone the repo and running CLI
I think you can build a custom webUI to do just that with the Cloudron API, perhaps coopting n8n for any initial testing.
This is a greater need in general, and could include other useful features like migrating apps from one Cloudron to another leveraging the App install/restore process.
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@girish said in Feature request: Add custom app to App Store for local Cloudron:
I am trying to see if we can do some trick to make this less work. What is you could download a "template" and then we had a button in appstore view that says install from "template" ? I know this is not as cool as integrating with appstore but will it get the job done for now?
(Reason I ask is we already have the backup config download feature. If we add the docker image id or appstore id to it, it's already a template at this point).
How difficult would it be to make this happen in a few hours? Like in a separate DEV section of the App Store view?
Option 1: accept backup templates link from custom running apps for install
Option 2: accept valid git repos link of custom packaged apps for install
This doesn't disturb the release box code, need separate registries or cli installs.