For those that would be interested. I have just created a live stream on Youtube for Sunday 21.06. 14:00 (CET). During that stream I want to show a bit how to make a Cloudron app and will use Matterbridge as the example for it.
I would timebox the whole stream to a max of two hours, lets see how far I'll get in that time, maybe I won't even need that much time.
There will be an unedited recording of the stream later on.
You can follow the stream at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKcH2yJiLUo
Hi everyone,
I saw a post yesterday on Reddit showing how to use the Google Cloud free tier to run Uptime Kuma. One of the alternatives for free hosting mentioned in the post was fly.io and since their tooling intrigued me I have since then started hosting Uptime Kuma on their platform (combined with notifications through Telegram to be as independent from my own infrastructure as possible).
Their free tier includes a vm to run own code or a docker container along with 1cpu and 256mb of ram. this can be coupled with a persistent storage volume of 3gb, so plenty of resources for Uptime Kuma. In addition to this they allow usage of own domain names so you can have your status page at https://status.mydomain.com instead of on one of their subdomains.
All you need is the following toml file to deploy the Uptime Kuma container on fly.io:
# fly.toml file generated for mykuma
app = "mykuma"
kill_signal = "SIGINT"
kill_timeout = 5
processes = []
[build]
image = "louislam/uptime-kuma:1"
[mounts]
source="kuma"
destination="/app/data"
[env]
PORT = "8080"
[experimental]
allowed_public_ports = []
auto_rollback = true
[[services]]
http_checks = []
internal_port = 8080
processes = ["app"]
protocol = "tcp"
script_checks = []
[services.concurrency]
hard_limit = 25
soft_limit = 20
type = "connections"
[[services.ports]]
force_https = true
handlers = ["http"]
port = 80
[[services.ports]]
handlers = ["tls", "http"]
port = 443
[[services.tcp_checks]]
grace_period = "1s"
interval = "15s"
restart_limit = 0
timeout = "2s"
The configuration refers to a volume called "kuma", which needs to be created before the app can be deployed by running flyctl volumes create kuma.
I have written a bit more in detail about on on my blog: https://blog.9wd.eu/posts/flyio/ (first draft status, may need refinement)
Hi,
I'm thinking about creating a Cloudron app that uses fetchmail to fetch external mailboxes and deliver their mails to local accounts. Depending if I find a good example for a config ui this would then be configurable either from a small web ui or by simply editing the fetchmailrc file from the console.
Anyone else interested?
@girish said in Incorporate a WAF built into cloudron:
it should totally possible to move to apache instead of nginx for the reverse proxy, with some effort
I'm not sure if moving from Nginx to Apache is a very "modern" decision. There has been a buzz on this forum about Crowdsec a few weeks ago, maybe this would another approach that is possible (although the downside seems to be that you lock people into a third party SaaS).
In regards to reverse proxies. I recently spent quite some time working with apisix, which is basically nginx/openresty with an additional manage api in lua. It can get its route configuration either from etcd or a yaml file (other backends could afaik be implemented as plugins). And since its based on Nginx its quite fast.
Hello everyone. See you on half an hour at https://youtu.be/RKcH2yJiLUo!
Hi,
I am not using it myself, but could imagine this being useful to others. Looking at their deployment structures this only needs node and a postgres database.
@msbt said in Proposal: Free-Tier Alterations 
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Not sure if paying for updates defeats the purpose of having a secure system with rolling auto-updates
Exactly. I think it's bad practice to hide things like updates and 2FA behind an extra paywall.
Plus it was like this in the past already and was changed for the very same reason: you don't want to have people with vulnerable old versions out in the wild.
A post of @luckow has made me interested in baserow (which is already available as an app on Cloudron). With it you can define databases and fill these through a form. It already has the ability to trigger a webhook if an entry was created.
At the moment the webhook payload cannot be freely defined, but if it would add this feature one could make a simple sign up page for Cloudron. User would be created, but sadly one needs to make multiple requests to also send out an invitation mail and to add the user to groups. But this way the admin can decide on their own if the signup should be confirmed.
I recently talked to the CEO of Humhub and also made him aware of Cloudron and this topic. He said that they are currently busy with investigating ways to automate deployments in container scenarios and once that is solved they would be open to collaborate on an app for Cloudron.
@micmc yes, switching to web assembly has been an important step for libreoffice.
@marcusquinn said in Cloudron CCTV Home Protection:
Eufy Cameras
Yes, I'm using them as well. They are not depend on cloud services for data storage (just pop in a MicroSD card) and can do rtsp to send their signals to one of the above mentioned services. Sadly depends on their cloud for usage of their app. IMHO still a good price/feature balance.
@robi retention by time you could already set through keepWithinSecs i would say.
For the rest (although i would rather recommend to work on the storage limitations) maybe it would be an alternative to backup the Cloudron to disk and have another application pick up the moving to storage and rotation/retention part. There was a restic how to here recently that could help.
@robi so the change you need is rather a retention based on backup size?
@drew said in catchall -> mailing list?:
but I was hoping not to have to.
Just to have it said. setting up these rules is a one time thing. You just have to create a single rule per domain, and no further connection is needed.
If you have a lot of domains and want to automate it, you could even script it through https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man1/sieve-connect.1.html.
Hi @robi,
what kind of settings do you want to change? I would always discourage changing source files, simply because any update could potentially overwrite the custom changes.
Even if retention and schedule patterns
are not part of the documentation, looking in the browser console they still can be set with a simple curl request.
curl 'https://my.xxx/api/v1/settings/backup_config' \
-H 'authorization: Bearer xxx' \
--data-raw '{"provider":"minio","format":"tgz","bucket":"xxx-9wdeu","prefix":"","accessKeyId":"xxx","secretAccessKey":"●●●●●●●●","endpoint":"https://xxx","region":"us-east-1","acceptSelfSignedCerts":false,"s3ForcePathStyle":true,"retentionPolicy":{"keepWithinSecs":2592000},"schedulePattern":"00 00 23 * * *","memoryLimit":8589934592,"uploadPartSize":20971520,"password":"●●●●●●●●"}' \
--compressed
Hi @chetbaker
in my opinion there are no real alternatives, at least not when considering the full feature set of Office 365 and the Google Apps ecosystem. So if you want full office document editing the only applications that aim to come close are LibreOffice (or Collabora) and OnlyOffice with any of their supported file storage backends.
If its just some text editor that you want to collaboratively work on then Cryptpad or Hedgedoc could be interesting to look at. But being markdown based with a split red/write pane makes Hedgedoc challenging for a lot of users and the Cryptpad UX also leaves room for improvement.
Document editing has lots of UX challenges to solve, and these challenges are seldomly free to conquer.
@marcusquinn said in Ghost: Urgent Security Update:
App updates really should not be tied to Cloudron updates either
In this specific case it is because the app packaging makes use of a feature only available in Cloudron >=7.2.
https://git.cloudron.io/cloudron/ghost-app/-/commit/ceab152d282cccc12d0cee68b5f4a7e336a8b8dd
@drew said in catchall -> mailing list?:
but why can't I just point the catchall at a mailing list?
The one question I get when reading this is: why a mailing list?
A mailing list is there to distribute a single email to a group of recipients. Can your request maybe also be understood as "give me the ability to select a mailbox on a different cloudron hosted mailbox" or even "give me the ability to specify the recipient email of a catch all rules"?
@scooke said in Amazing app to help with backups and saving space!:
you MUST enter new A records for the bucket and domain of your Minio setup
This is commonly referred to as "path style" vs. "domain style" buckets. Some applications can do both, some just one of the two.
When I was backing up my Synology NAS to my own Minio instance I had a wildcard vhost in Nginx and a wildcard certificate for this.
For domain style buckets to work with Cloudron, the Cloudron app would need to support domain aliases.