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@timconsidine Just pushed the code in the pimp-my-dweb branch (see Dockerfile.cloudron). Tried the docker image, it works, and the healthcheck on port 8000 should work. Had to fix a few things, /app/code/bin wasn't in PATH, it couldn't find go-ipfs ..

@timconsidine Built the docker image, all good. Only thing i've changed .. i'm using "python -m http.server 8000" instead of the server.js script to run the health check service. That got me wondering how the "node /app/code/server.js" command could work because nodejs isn't being installed anywhere ?

One question: does the Dockerfile for cloudron need to be named "Dockerfile" ? Or is it allowed to have it named "Dockerfile.cloudron" for example. If not, that's fine i'll symlink it.

@LoudLemur Sorry bit of a late reply .. No, go-ipfs really doesn't take much disk space that's not a problem. ipfs-lite only provides the strict minimum (great project), but galacteek needs and uses the whole ipfs stack, things like streams and pubsub.

A flatpak repository is now available. I'll integrate tim's work in the main repo but i can't test it (don't have cloudron).

@timconsidine hope you're ok, thanks again for the work you did on this

@timconsidine Everything you said is very accurate. The RAM requirements have to be considered, it will likely be an issue on a VPS. Thanks again for doing the work on the packaging, it's never lost ..

The primary use case on cloudron i think wouldn't be to access the UI via VNC (although you still could) but to act as a node on the network to cache linked data. galacteek uses RDF and SparQL (over libp2p tunnels, so it's fully P2P) to exchange linked data between peers. This works pretty well but needs some optimization (synchronization is slow).

I think it's best to wait a bit to see how it can best be deployed, there's no rush.

@LoudLemur @timconsidine adapted the Dockerfile for Cloudron, i hope we can fix the remaining issues.

@timconsidine Yes better in the chat, thanks.

@timconsidine The Dockerfile for the x11vnc image is called Dockerfile.debian.x11vnc in the pimp-my-dweb branch.

docker build -f Dockerfile.debian.x11vnc  .

But no need to build it, better use the available image in the gitlab registry.

Why do you add http:// ? I think that's the issue. This works for me.

docker pull registry.gitlab.com/galacteek/galacteek:pimp-my-dweb-latest-x11vnc

I don't have cloudron installed yet. I wrote the CloudronManifest.json, will push it soon. Should the CloudronManifest.json file also be inside the docker container's filesystem ?

@timconsidine Thanks a lot for your help.The Dockerfile is pretty simple. I don't want to have to maintain 2 different docker images.

Given that the password to access the UI via VNC is printed on the console when the container is started, won't be that be a problem when running it from cloudron ?

@timconsidine Thank you ! The docker image is already automatically built from gitlab ci and pushed to gitlab's container registry here:

registry.gitlab.com/galacteek/galacteek:pimp-my-dweb-latest-x11vnc

So apart from the manifest there isn't much else that needs to be done it seems ?

@LoudLemur I've read the packaging tutorial, i can write and publish the CloudronManifest.json file in the galacteek repo if that helps. It seems that the docker image url/ref is not specified in the manifest but rather that you need to pass it when you run "cloudron install --image ..." ?

@LoudLemur Managed to get the Docker image down to ~820Mb, based on python:3.7-slim. It can be reduced even more but not that much, i'm surprised by the space the xorg packages take on a debian ...

New shapshots and docker image. Now when you search for things on the dweb it's automatically cached as RDF so it's way faster to lookup things later on even being offline.

There's also a bash script now to run the latest AppImage snapshot automatically:

curl -L https://galacteek.gitlab.io/galacteek-snapshot-install.sh | bash

Some documentation on how to use SparQL and IPFS from a QML dapp

https://galacteek.gitlab.io/docs/dapps/sparql/

https://galacteek.gitlab.io/docs/dapps/ipfs

@girish Thank you ! Cool, 2011 talk, i'll watch it.

Yeah i think writing dapps in QML has some potential (or it could be a complete dead-end :D), i wrote the necessary interfaces so that from the QML code you can use IPFS functions like pubsub, to broadcast messages efficiently to all the peers. Also it integrates with QtWebEngine so you can load a JS-based ipfs page from your dapp ..

Most people working with ipfs write dapps in NodeJS, it's the classic approach. Ideally we could mix both ... but QML won't let you do async so i write the complex code in python and call that from the QML side.

@loudlemur @micmc Hello, galacteek author here. Recently learned about Cloudron, nice project !

The docker image for galacteek is about 1Gb and that's a bit much, trying to find ways to reduce that to a minimum. If you have ideas on how to improve the docker image i'm quite interested, i'm not sure the x11vnc thing is ideal but it's worked better for me than the trick with the X11 socket.