Example app config how-to's needed

[Ixian]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
As the TrueNAS Scale RC gets closer to release, there will be an influx of new users looking to install apps who are not familiar with Kubernetes, Traefix, Docker, or all 3. The existing manual is out of date and lacks important info such as common configuration examples.
Describe the solution you'd like
A start-to-finish example of how to configure common apps (such as Plex, etc.) in combination with Traefix, etc. would be very useful.

Describe alternatives you've considered
Unless you are already very familiar with Kubernetes it is extremely difficult to map existing Kubernetes tutorials to how TrueNAS & Truecharts GUI configuration works, especially since the latter often "hides" advanced details.

I am pretty adept at working with dockers/docker-compose, and also familar with reverse proxies as I use HAProxy on my OPNSense firewall. However I found myself at a loss trying to even get a basic Truecharts app setup due to having no "starting point" for configurations - how ingress is handled in particular is quite confusing.

It's not even completely clear (it is mentioned, yes, but not obvious) that the first Truecharts app that should be installed is Traefix, or how to configure it once you do.

A setup walkthrough would be really helpful to new users so we could take advantage of all the great effort that is being put in to this project - much appreciated!

[stavros-k]

Documentation is indeed outdated, but it's on the todo list. I can say an exact ETA because I'm not the guy that can make good documentation :D.

About the "how ingress works", most of it is handled automatically on the background from the common library that @Ornias1993 has put a ton of time to make it super.

There will be some basic walkthroughs videos for now, that will show how to get started. You can view them soon in the new TrueCharts channel in Youtube

Traefik is not something that you have to install or to install first. It's just the "easy" way to have ingress on your apps. But, yes, if you want to take advantage of the ingress feature on TrueCharts apps, you will need it.

I probably can make some additional videos later for configuring common apps, but it will be probably without sound,

[Ixian]

Thanks! I'm doing testing on a backup server learning by doing.

I ran into trouble even trying a simple test app I was already familiar with (Jellyfin) - I could only access it via the Node port. I tried going the traefik route but am lost trying to figure out what to enter for host, path, etc. Also getting an error in the Traefix GUI telling me the middleware for my app is not configured. I'm obviously missing some important bits which is why examples would be really helpful - even if they don't fit my exact situation it'll help everything "click" in to place.

[stavros-k]

You can always come to the Discord server, post screenshots of your config and find out where the problem is!

[Ornias1993]

I'm going to close this, as it's too arbitrary to keep an issue open for this.
There is no "magic pill" for setting up apps that would be 100% universal and the documentation that needs improving is to general and to much of an "ongoing process to keep an issue open.

[truecharts-admin]

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