Baserow Cloudron app - Airtable alternative

[bram]

Thanks everyone for the warm welcome and for the info.

For now it is okay if Redis doesn't keep the persistent state, so we can use the one that is installed within the Basero app image. Would be nice to use the Cloudron addon in the future once Redis 5 is fully supported. Once the Docker healthcheck is supported we can use that.

Looking forward to your feedback!

[bram]

I have a quick follow up question. Is it possible for Cloudron to generate a unique secret key and provide that as environment variable? Baserow depends on a secret key to create password reset and invite tokens, but this needs to be unique value for each installation. Otherwise if everyone uses the same key, it will become possible to create password reset tokens which is a security issue.

[nebulon]

@bram similar to cookie secrets, this usually is done in the startup script (start.sh).

Something on the lines of (just some pseudo bash here):

if [[ ! -f /app/data/.secret ]]; then
    echo "SECRET_ENV=$(some way to generate a secret)" > /app/data/.secret
fi

source /app/data/.secret

Very much depends on how the app consumes this. Sometime like gitlab they have a secrets file like: https://git.cloudron.io/cloudron/gitlab-app/-/blob/master/start.sh#L92

[mehdi]

@bram an example here : https://git.cloudron.io/mehdi/river/-/blob/master/start.sh#L64

if [ ! -f /app/data/session.secret ]; then
  dd if=/dev/urandom bs=256 count=1 | base64 > /app/data/session.secret
fi

[bram]

This will work for my use case. Thanks!

[ianhyzy]

This looks like a fantastic tool, can't wait to try it out on Cloudron!

[timconsidine]

@ianhyzy Ditto
Is the status of this known ? Coming to a cloudron near me soon ??

[doodlemania2]

@timconsidine It's available now, just not in the store. Just follow instructions above and you'll be up and running in no time.

[timconsidine]

@doodlemania2 Cheers !

[timconsidine]

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[timconsidine]

@doodlemania2 Having trouble with this :
Repeat errors like App installation error: Installation failed: Unable to pull image tcmbp132021/baserow:1:3:0. Please check the network or if the image needs authentication. statusCode: 400

I can build locally and I can push docker image.
But interestingly docker for desktop reports 3.25Gb locally and repository only 1.1Gb

Does the image need authentication ??
Or maybe there is indeed a network error
Grrrr

[timconsidine]

And when I run the container locally, it starts and immediately fails
http://ocalhost:3000 doesn't respond and docker for desktop reports not started
I think there is a build problem

[timconsidine]

Bizarre
Now working
Maybe there was some network glitch going on
I did do docker trust just in case
But had to delete images multiple times and try again
Anyway now deployed to and working on cloudron - yay !
Thank you @bram !!

[thetomester13]

@staff any thoughts on publishing Baserow as unstable? I've been using it on and off and it's quite smooth. Not sure what else is needed from a packaging perspective though.

[girish]

@bram Are you open to have this app published in the Cloudron store? This involves moving the packaging to the git.cloudron.io and also have automated tests (we can help with both).

[bram]

@timconsidine Glad to hear that it now works for you!

[bram]

@girish Apologies for my super late response. I don't check the Cloudron forum that often, but luckily @tomershivani reached out to me via email notifying me about your question. I would love to have Baserow in the Cloudron app store. I am not sure which steps I exactly need to make. Is there a documentation page about this? Or is it just a matter of creating a new repo on git.cloudron.io containing the files that now live here https://gitlab.com/bramw/baserow/-/tree/develop/deploy/cloudron, add automated tests and you will do the rest? Would love to learn a bit more about this process and help with the automated tests would be much appreciated.

[girish]

@bram I wrote up a quick publishing doc here - https://docs.cloudron.io/packaging/publishing/ . If you can just put the deploy code in git.cloudron.io as a separate repo with a license, I can take it from there. I only needed your go ahead to move this forward

[robi]

@girish said in Baserow Cloudron app - Airtable alternative:

I wrote up a quick publishing doc here - https://docs.cloudron.io/packaging/publishing/ .

Beautiful!

One small typo found:

At this point, Cloudron team will look into your package and get it ready from publishing. 

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[bram]

@girish I just created an account on git.cloudron.io, but it seems like I can't create a new repository. When creating a new project I get the error "Namespace is not valid". All the other repo's are in the cloudron project https://git.cloudron.io/cloudron, but it seems like I can't create a new repo there. Am I missing something?

Alternatively, you can find the deploy code in our own public repo and copy it from there https://gitlab.com/bramw/baserow/-/tree/master/deploy/cloudron. It already has an MIT license there.

How would it work in the future if we release a new version of Baserow? Can we deploy the latest version to the app store?