App Request: snipe-IT

cpbpilot · January 23, 2025, 10:46pm

Problem/Justification
I’m looking for a better way to track all of the computers and assets our company has. Many of the asset tracking software out there is very expensive, antiquated, or both. snipe-it is a self-host through docker-compose and is composed of a modern webui with a backend mysql database making it fast and responsive.

github.com

snipe/snipe-it/blob/master/docker-compose.yml

# Compose file for production.

volumes:
  db_data:
  storage:

services:
  app:
    image: snipe/snipe-it:${APP_VERSION:-latest}
    restart: unless-stopped
    volumes:
      - storage:/var/lib/snipeit
    ports:
      - "${APP_PORT:-8000}:80"
    depends_on:
      db:
        condition: service_healthy
        restart: true
    env_file:
      - .env

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https://hub.docker.com/r/snipe/snipe-it

Impact
I think this app is both useful in the enterprise as well as for homelabers as it not only let you track computer but also components like hard-drives, cpus, ram…

NugentS · January 24, 2025, 1:32am

Why not just install it yourself as either a custom app or via YAML?

cpbpilot · January 24, 2025, 1:46am

I could…… but that’s not the spirit of having apps. With that logic every app that IX has could just be installed manually or with a yaml. Why do they have apps at all?

LarsR · January 24, 2025, 8:36am

Because there are some, non technical people out there who don’t want to learn docker or any other containerization form to deploy some services and to be comparable to other nas os’s like Synology DSM or QOS from Qnap. Almost every nas os has some form of one-click install option for apps. But the config options for those apps are somewhat limited. If you want advanced options like ingress via traefik (although now that label support has been added that’s no longer true), vpn support for your downloader you’d have to deploy your own app via compose.
You can contribute to the apps catalogue yourself by submitting a pull request on the truenas github. iX wants the community apps catalogue to be expanded and maintained by the community.

cpbpilot · January 24, 2025, 11:23am

I know why they have apps… I was posing the rhetorical question to nugents whose answer to my app request was. “Just do it yourself”. I’m asking for the app for all the reasons you listed. I don’t understand why everyone’s answer to my app requests is to just do it yourself. Maybe I’m one of the non-technical people you listed, or maybe I don’t have time or knowledge to maintain a community app.

etorix · January 24, 2025, 12:13pm

Because the old farts who have been around for some time know from repeated experience that iXSystems wants to provide apps but to NOT invest any time in maintaining said apps.
So the latest and best they’ve come up with is to provide a framework for users to install their own apps alongside with a very limited selection of apps which have a use case on the Enterprise side of things (although Enterprise users reportedly do not want apps running on their storage ).

Your app request looks like it has a genuine business case. Maybe iX will put it on its catalog some day. But don’t count on it any time soon: If you want this app, install it.

dan · January 24, 2025, 12:18pm

I can think of at least two possible reasons:

Some people here just can’t distinguish between “paste in a compose file” and an actual app. I don’t understand why they can’t see this distinction, but from other conversations it’s clear that the two are synonymous in their minds.
In the case of many app requests, “paste in a compose file” is pretty close to having a point-and-click app, and it’s something you can do right now rather than waiting for whoever to pick up on the request and build the app.

Pretty much, though I’d say iX wants to be seen as providing apps rather than that they actually want to provide them. And I remain of the opinion that the new and shiny apps catalog is going to get kicked to the curb before too long.