Add Nextcloud App

[Ornias1993]

Yes, this is already in upstream.
But Upstream is missing a lot of features we (might) want:

• CustomDB urls
• Redis Support
• Seperating the different kinds of Nextcloud files (most importantly: data)
• Ingress support

We can trickle some of those back into upstream.
But we do want to include ingress support and it's easier to fork it than to try and find a middleground on upstream. Because upstream hasn't decided on a ingress format yet and ours is mostly done.

[stavros-k]

A nice addition would be pdlib for the face recognition app!
https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/facerecognition
https://github.com/matiasdelellis/facerecognition/wiki/Requirements-and-Limitations

[Ornias1993]

There is a bug where we can't have two of the same (named) apps in different catalogs at the same time.
In this case official and truecharts.

Untill thats fixed, this is basically blocked

[stavros-k]

Just curious, are you planning to use official NC docker? Or LinuxServer.io
I think official docker needs extra setup for cron or require cron jobs on the host machine.

[Ornias1993]

@stavros-k Doesn't really mater actually... I know how to setup both :)
(what i'm actually saying is: Both docker containers are complete SHIT.)

Actually with Nextcloud 21, this gets pretty intersting with their new Rust based alternative backend. Really interesting to get that going! :)

[stavros-k]

@stavros-k Doesn't really mater actually... I know how to setup both :)
(what i'm actually saying is: Both docker containers are complete SHIT.)

Hehe, i can't tell if the are SHIT, but i run into problems some times with LSIO atleast, never tried official one. Was a bit more involved to setup, and i was kinda bored :D

Actually with Nextcloud 21, this gets pretty intersting with their new Rust based alternative backend. Really interesting to get that going! :)

yea 21 looks very promising. LSIO for now don't have php8, but i thing they might do it before official.
On the other hand lsio is alpine which some packages are somewhat different and some times proves difficult to do things or things dont work as intented.
e.g. php-iconv had some problems, the correct package was on edge, so it wasn't preinstalled in docker (fixed now)
same with pdlib (still on edge repo) can only be installed with script on startup!

I might need a some quadruple backups trying to migrate from LSIO to official. :D

[Ornias1993]

The problem with the official container (and I think even with linuxserver, but i would need to check) is their totally weird choice, to download the actual nextcloud installation instead of including it in the image and their updater more often breaks installs than it updates them if you have a lot of Apps installed.
ohh and forget figuring out your list of Apps it so nicely removed for you during update, it doesn't save the list.

Combine that with their desire to not maintain their "Enterprise" features like SAML (which is now literally broken vaporware) and Nextcloud has moved from "Enterprise Grade" to "Shilling PR stunt to proclaim other companies "Partner" for money".

Shame there is no decent alternative.

[stavros-k]

You are correct with the update and apps. But i must say after NC 20 i didn't run into any problems in update (even betas) (I run 2 containers one production and one testing).
Except of course the app list ..

[Ornias1993]

I've a special "ohh no, it's nextcloud update day"-day.

That being said, the App is comming... somewhere after 21.04 ALPHA that is :P

[Sagit-chu]

I hope it's easy to configure HTTPS

[Sagit-chu]

I hope it's easy to configure HTTPS

[Ornias1993]

Just like any other TrueCharts chart

[stavros-k]

I was just thinking, because there is some apps on nextcloud that needs additional packages to be installed in order for them to work. And also because we move to our in house non root containers.

IF you decide to create our own container for nextcloud, have an option to load and run a script on startup so if anyone want to add extra packages in the installation can drop a script in specific folder and let it install.

Of course something like this will be out of the support.

Other option is to include ALL dependencies for the current app list, but that would result in a very much larger image than needed.

[Ornias1993]

@stavros-k Please, this is months away of being done and is currently blocked.
I appreciate the effort, but I haven't even started working on this yet and I highly doubt that I will read this once I do start working on it. While appreciate the feedback, I find it hard to work if everyone starts saying how they want this done before I even started the design phase.

[stavros-k]

@stavros-k Please, this is months away of being done and is currently blocked.
I appreciate the effort, but I haven't even started working on this yet and I highly doubt that I will read this once I do start working on it. While appreciate the feedback, I find it hard to work if everyone starts saying how they want this done before I even started the design phase.

Sure, i understand, though of throwing the idea before starting, so there won't be need to redo things just to implement something!
We 'll talk again about this when the time comes!

[Ornias1993]

I'm not 100% sure if I'm going to take this on as a maintainer, as I try to focus on things I actually use and i'm not sure if I'll keep using this in the future. Hence I removed my assignment.

[Ornias1993]

As initial design for the postgresql database solution has been submitted as a draft PR, i'm going to consider this "Unblocked".

It should now be at least possible to make a start at adding this app if anyone wants to take this on!

[Ornias1993]

Initial work on nextcloud has been merged into the develop train for testing

[truecharts-admin]

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