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rodber

I'm a software developer from Chile. I created https://chevereto.com about 14 years ago and I've some other projects, I'm mostly into development of self-hosted software. I'm also a metallurgical engineer, 35 years old.

I also speak Spanish and I'm looking forward to distribute my software to more users. Thanks cloudron for providing this tool for guys like us.

rodber

I make chevereto, there's an open source edition https://github.com/chevereto/chevereto-free

Let me know what I can do to help in the process.

rodber

@nebulon Thanks for the welcome, I don't have any reason besides that the Open Source edition doesn't have the paywall so it feels like a more straightforward approach for the new user. Both editions run on the exact same stack, I've some live demo right here: https://github.com/chevereto/docker as I've been optimizing support for containers lately.

What I'm trying to do is to provide servicing using container layers and sit the application as a project folder. That way the application manages itself its updating and the user can carry their modifications, I will be happy to review alternatives and share different strategies.

rodber

@nebulon I was able to play a litte bit, it seems that it will be trivial to get it running: https://chevereto-lamp.demo.cloudron.io/

Running these from app/data/public folder:

wget -O installer.php https://chevereto.com/download/file/installer

php installer.php -a download -s chevereto-free

php installer.php -a extract -s chevereto-free -f chevereto-pkg-*.zip -p .

php installer.php -a createSettings \
    -h=${CLOUDRON_MYSQL_HOST} \
    -p 3306 \
    -n=${CLOUDRON_MYSQL_DATABASE} \
    -u=${CLOUDRON_MYSQL_USERNAME} \
    -x=${CLOUDRON_MYSQL_PASSWORD} \
    -f app/settings.php

php installer.php -a submitInstallForm \
    -w http://localhost/ \
    -u user -e user@hostname.loc \
    -x password \
    -f from@hostname.loc \
    -i inbox@hostname.loc \
    -m community

rm -rf installer.php

My installer has a CLI API, I've updated the documentation today.

https://github.com/chevereto/installer

rodber

@girish said in Vultr Marketplace:

Cloudron is now available in the Vultr marketplace - https://www.vultr.com/marketplace/apps/cloudron

Glad to see you guys there too!

rodber

I've created a installer shell script, this will ease the provisioning a lot.

cd ../data/public

curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/chevereto/shell/main/chevereto-free.sh | sudo bash -s -- \
    -h ${CLOUDRON_MYSQL_HOST} \
    -p ${CLOUDRON_MYSQL_PORT} \
    -n ${CLOUDRON_MYSQL_DATABASE} \
    -u ${CLOUDRON_MYSQL_USERNAME} \
    -x ${CLOUDRON_MYSQL_PASSWORD} \
    -w http://localhost/ \
    -A admin \
    -E admin@localhost.loc \
    -X password \
    -f ${CLOUDRON_MAIL_FROM} \
    -i inbox@localhost.loc \
    -m community

^^^ You need to customize the -A -E -X and -i options.

The repo is here: https://github.com/chevereto/shell

rodber

@nebulon sure, I understand. I have been updating things to make it compatible with the immutable realm. I need to tweak my installer to support tagged releases which at this time it only works with latest, I will work on that.

Most work is on the actual application code, my goal is 12-factor. Regarding the settings file I'm now using env, I've updated that recently https://v3-docs.chevereto.com/setup/system/settings-file.html

You can check the images here https://github.com/chevereto/docker is a live wip atm.

rodber

Dear all,

I have crafted the official Docker provisioning for Chevereto. The images are available here: https://hub.docker.com/r/chevereto/chevereto

These provide httpd-php and php-fpm images with a bootstrap script that runs on container creation, so it installs the software once and just spawn services from there.

Let me know if this helps to get Chevereto on Cloudron.

rodber

@nebulon my bootstrap script gets you until the install form where the user will be prompt under HTTP to submit account details to proceed with the installation. It doesn't carry the installation as that process has account limitations (password length enforcement, forbidden usernames) but if you want to automate that bit you could simply detect the first run based on the container placeholder and execute the submitInstall installer command.

The installation at that step is just build the database, it doesn't touch the filesystem. As you may noticed, I left the installer.php available to use it as tooling on top of the images look at /chevereto folder in the container.

I suggest you to implement Chevereto on Cloudron using/forking my Docker images as I will constantly maintaining it, specially in regards to the PHP provisioning. That's why I provide separately Apache and PHP-FPM images, so you stop worrying about PHP regardless which flavor you like better. Use php-fpm if you want to handle the server, simply plug the process. Use Apache HTTP if you want to rely in mod_php.

Regarding your implementation, I can't recommend to use linking for the app/settings.php file, I recommend you to use env variables for that purpose. If user needs to sneak a setting it should be made by overriding the env variables, not working on the same file used for app/settings.php dist. If the user needs to add something at "settings level" it should be made with a file made for that sole purpose.

rodber

I think that I will just write a guide on my docs on how to deploy the custom Chevereto image. I feel that my intervention here is going nowhere... I just noticed that I went from bootstrap to container registry and now again we are talking about bootstrap.

I've the code and will, you know where to reach me. I'm always available.

Thanks anyway.

rodber

@nebulon paid version is a different code base but it works with the same system requirements. One way to provide it is by each user creating its own image.

The alternative is this, the bootstrap version: https://github.com/chevereto/docker which you can upgrade, the application is just mapped to a local bind dir.

rodber

Hey there, I've some great news.

We now have a container builder repository, here: https://github.com/chevereto/container-builder

What it does is that it uses github infra to build your own Chevereto paid edition image and upload it to the container registry of your choice. From there you can run your Chevereto image anywhere.

Does Cloudron allow users to provide their own container images? If that's feasible our paid users could use your panel

Let me know if you want more details about this.

rodber