Hi,
How can I create a custom app that has multiple containers?
Use docker compose in a sandbox. In the future youâll be able to use that compose file with TrueNAS Electric Eel
TrueNAS Scale: Setting up Sandboxes with Jailmaker
I donât think you can create a custom app with multiple containers. That being said, you can create a container via docker build that has multiple things in it with supervisord, etc, so, multiple daemons iow. The docker built container then is trivially run as a custom app.
That is, until Electric Eel release which will use compose. Or, you can go the jail route now.
Arenât TrueNAS apps based on Kubernetes and Helm charts?
I was hoping I could use it.
As off todayâs updates (24.04) I canât create new custom apps:
[ENOENT] Unable to locate âix-chartâ at â/mnt/Storage Pool 0/ix-applications/catalogs/github_com_truenas_charts_git_master/charts/ix-chartâ
They are Kubernetes at present, however, what actually rjuns behind the âcustom appâ is containerd, which runs any ol container built by docker and others.
The Home Assistant app seems to be using a helm chart to use 2 containers:
I want to do something like this.
Although you could make a custom helm
Chart, that functionality is deprecated. And going away in Electric Eel, to be replaced with docker compose.
In the meantime, you can use docker compose in a sandbox.
See my previous post.
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You can, just learn to do docker and build your own until Eel when compose makes it easier. No need for helm. Youâll need to use/include something like supervisord to run multiple apps within the built container.