Hi all,

I have signed up for a managed plan to test some features of Cloudron. I really love the promise of a platform that is fundamentally based on managed containers.

The Question/Premise: Assume I want to support students enrolled in a class or academic program. I want each student to be able to have a blog, and perhaps one or more Wekan boards, and so on. From my experimentation, it looks like a single Cloudron instance cannot meet this need?

I created an administrator account and a student account. When I chose WP as one of my apps, both the administrator and the student are writing to the same blog. As a result, each "user" does not have their own blog space on a single (in this case, managed) Cloudron instance. However, each user does have their own Wekan board. Perhaps I'll have my students maintain microblogs in Wekan...

It seems to me that, given the current structure of Cloudron, that to provide every student with their own spaces, I would need:

1. To have a VM for each student, and
2. Provision Cloudron to that VM

We would create common admin accounts on each student VM, and they could then choose which apps to run on each virtual machine. Or, each student could be an admin of their own Cloudron instance. Details, details...

I guess the point of the question is: if I want to get into the space that every one of my students has a "domain of one's own," eg.

astudent.dept.institution.edu

then is it likely that I must run a separate Cloudron instance for every student, or is there a way to simply run one server, with a bunch of RAM, and have each student running their own apps in their own containers?

(All of this might be my own confusion in some way, but I really do think I'm logged into two different browser instances, as two different Cloudron users, and still seeing the same WP instance in both cases. Hence my question.)

Many thanks,
Matt

Hi all,

I have signed up for a managed plan to test some features of Cloudron. I really love the promise of a platform that is fundamentally based on managed containers.

The Question/Premise: Assume I want to support students enrolled in a class or academic program. I want each student to be able to have a blog, and perhaps one or more Wekan boards, and so on. From my experimentation, it looks like a single Cloudron instance cannot meet this need?

I created an administrator account and a student account. When I chose WP as one of my apps, both the administrator and the student are writing to the same blog. As a result, each "user" does not have their own blog space on a single (in this case, managed) Cloudron instance. However, each user does have their own Wekan board. Perhaps I'll have my students maintain microblogs in Wekan...

It seems to me that, given the current structure of Cloudron, that to provide every student with their own spaces, I would need:

1. To have a VM for each student, and
2. Provision Cloudron to that VM

We would create common admin accounts on each student VM, and they could then choose which apps to run on each virtual machine. Or, each student could be an admin of their own Cloudron instance. Details, details...

I guess the point of the question is: if I want to get into the space that every one of my students has a "domain of one's own," eg.

astudent.dept.institution.edu

then is it likely that I must run a separate Cloudron instance for every student, or is there a way to simply run one server, with a bunch of RAM, and have each student running their own apps in their own containers?

(All of this might be my own confusion in some way, but I really do think I'm logged into two different browser instances, as two different Cloudron users, and still seeing the same WP instance in both cases. Hence my question.)

Many thanks,
Matt