Rob here (robi is my Croatian nickname and often computer username) for those in other cultures, short for Robert.

As a Strategic Advisor and (Business & Innovation) Catalyst, I'm mostly a full stack janitor

As a leader in several startups, I reserve a keen eye for emerging technologies (hi Cloudron and it's Apps); I have been a speaker, mentor, advisor for Google, NASA, IBM, and many more, finding safe, creative solutions all the way from the mundane to the complex with equal ease, which is one thing that keeps my passion ignited.

Remember WinAmp? Yeah, I was there during the mp3 revolution, in the credits until the recent reshuffle.

I've invented a bunch of stuff, including the first PCIe flash storage device in small form factor (SFF), now you'll recognize it as the M.2 PCIe SSD device for which there is now a slot on every motherboard being made. (didn't make a dime.)

Made core discoveries (read blunders) in physics (magnetism, light, water), mathematics, statistics, AI, ML, medicine, law, etc, which you can ask me about outside this thread.

3 decades ago I got bitten by the sysadmin bug and never left, despite all the C level gigs.

After 15 years, I am still on the board of directors for https://BayLISA.org which is one of the oldest meetups in Silicon Valley. We've had the Cloudron team speak at one of our meetups which should be online on YT.

I play a long running pickup soccer game every Saturday (same folks come out for 8+ years) and tennis 1-2 times a week if possible. Love ping pong and ultimate frisbee too.

If you want to see a small part of my other crazy projects, see https://venture.toldyouso.com

Otherwise a few here have found me on Twitter.

There's more, but that's plenty for now

What do you all think about having a regular weekly event to package an important App as a group in a live session, maybe even live streamed, where anyone on the call can also contribute their small part, so one person doesn't have to slog through it all by themselves?

Others can watch and learn and ask questions & chit chat.

Any volunteers?

I was always hosting my own things since the first linux install back in the early 90s. When I came across Sandstorm I thought it was the bees knees, but it was far from pleasant to use with all the rough security and then the project shutdown! (for a while).

I actually called up the founder since I knew of him, and had a chat about it.. he was rearranging his life as he went to work for Cloudflare.

Shortly after I found Cloudron and haven't had to look back at anything else.

I even had @girish give a presentation on the mighty Cloudron at our meetup BayLISA. It was very impressive.

SO in some small way I am responsible for infecting a bunch of BayLISA members with the Cloudron bug and run 3 different Cloudrons myself spanning hundreds of domains now. Go Cloudron.

Porter is a Kubernetes powered PaaS that runs in your own cloud provider.

Repository: https://github.com/porter-dev/porter

Porter is an alternative to Heroku that spins up the underlying infrastructure in your own cloud provider. The complexity of the underlying infrastructure is abstracted away from you just like Heroku, but you can fully control the underlying infra when you need to (as your applications scale and "grow out" of the platform).

As I run 50+ apps in my Cloudron, I often have to check on services during troubleshooting, and when loading the System Info (/#/system) page it displays the Services, BUT as soon as I want to click on one, the Disk Usage loads and pushes all the Services down a page. (Bait and scroll?! )

Always makes me wonder why Services doesn't have it's own tab to avoid this problem.

Please fix.

As a very happy birthday present, this came about synergistically, and now we have the worlds first Cloudron App running in a Sysbox container runtime from Nestybox.com

Gratitude to this community and the Nestybox team.
This couldn't happen w/o @marcusquinn & @Rodny-Molina

Marcus provided the Cloudron based development environment which made this super easy and convenient, and Rodny provided the integration muscle and Sysbox expertise.

Here is the first issue filed related to our work:
https://github.com/nestybox/sysbox/issues/151

Feel free to follow along or jump in.

That's all for now

It's very easy to click on the tile opening the app when the intent was to open the configuration page.

Please increase the config clickable area as there is plenty to click the app. If that means making the icons larger, so be it, but their background area should be much larger.

Currently the way to roughly clean up some backups we don't want taking up space is to change the retention policy for a while, then come back later and change it back.

It would be nice to have a delete function for individual backups w/o having to shorten the policy.

Thank you all for showing your interest.

There is something about a regular cadence that is safe, warm and fuzzy, but that does take commitment and someone to at least host it.

Sometimes a chunk of time frees up and if others are also around, it's nice to hop on and hack on a part live, but from the feedback I am seeing, this is more likely to happen with async participation which is very much like GitHub/GitLab development.

There is still a need for some set "office hacking hours" where folks can come to learn and gain more confidence then go out and contribute a part to an App in packaging progress.

Until then, one such event has been recorded by @fbartels

Next we may need a running set of 3-5 Apps started with the right template(s), so that people actually have someplace to contribute to.

Then what you learn from the live "office hacking hours", you can apply the knowledge of moving config files, linking from the RO filesystem, adding to the Cloudron manifest and so on.

For this to work well, we shouldn't have dibs on doing x and run into not having it done/waiting, but only doing or not, so someone else can. Just do it.

And we shouldn't expect @girish or @nebulon to join as they have their hands full. If they somehow manage to, it's a bonus treat we shall cherish.

We're doing this to help them and ourselves get Apps packaged in a faster pace than any one of us can do on their own.

So who can host "office hacking hours" for 30-60m this year?

Who can set up and maintain a list of 3-5 Apps we desperately need?

• N8n.io
• Zulip?
• Odoo?

Who can get the repos to get us started?

Who can make a video on how to write and do test coverage?

Adding Quay
https://github.com/quay/quay
Project Quay builds, stores, and distributes your container images.

High-level features include:

• Docker Registry Protocol v2
• Docker Manifest Schema v2.1, v2.2
• AppC Image Discovery via on-demand transcoding
• Image Squashing via on-demand transcoding
• Authentication provided by LDAP, Keystone, OIDC, Google, and GitHub
• ACLs, team management, and auditability logs
• Geo-replicated storage provided by local filesystems, S3, GCS, Swift, and Ceph
• Continuous Integration integrated with GitHub, Bitbucket, GitLab, and git
• Security Vulnerability Analysis via Clair
• Swagger-compliant HTTP API

@fbartels anything on K8s is a microservice, hence it works without it too.

Someone got autoscaling docker machine working with Gitlab-runner using Sysbox.

"The interesting point is that the arguments to use the sysbox runtime are passed in the “--engine-insecure-registry”; this allows additional parameters that docker-machine does not support to be added"

Just found this in one of my ancient tabs:
https://github.com/longhorn/longhorn

Longhorn implements distributed block storage using containers and microservices. Longhorn creates a dedicated storage controller for each block device volume and synchronously replicates the volume across multiple replicas stored on multiple nodes.

Here are some notable features of Longhorn:

Enterprise-grade distributed storage with no single point of failure
Incremental snapshot of block storage
Backup to secondary storage (NFSv4 or S3-compatible object storage) built on efficient change block detection
Recurring snapshot and backup
Automated non-disruptive upgrade. You can upgrade the entire Longhorn software stack without disrupting running volumes!
Intuitive GUI dashboard

Factr.com may be good for RSS mashups and reading in a social setting.

Test Kitchen is an integration tool for developing and testing infrastructure code and software on isolated target platforms.

https://kitchen.ci

Its integration with InSpec and others is pretty powerful to keep tabs on compliance in many ways.

Perhaps this is useful for @staff to add checks the Cloudron apps and images as well as hints for contributors of new app packages as to what's potentially missing; in self-service fashion.

https://github.com/docker-slim/docker-slim

This looks awesome and the minification is significant! (2-30x!)

@atrilahiji means the API key doens't work

something for @nebulon to take a peek at

@atrilahiji did you validate the variables are present in the environment? And does surfer login work manually?

I just pinged one of my friends over at the Matrix team and this is what he said:

*I wouldn't wait until we add an admin interface of our own as that's not really in the plans for the next 18 months.
We tend to keep our admin APIs fairly stable and warn people when we add backwards-incompatible changes though (lots of people rely on them).

So I think the dangers of the 3rd party dashboard getting out of sync are overblown, as long as the project continues to be maintained.*

Similar to ArchiveBox, SingleFile and WebMemex, but gooderer.

️ - An archivist browser controller that caches everything you browse, a library server with full text search to serve your archive offline.
https://github.com/c9fe/22120

Binaries: https://github.com/dosyago/22120/releases