Docker apps, in EE, Fangtooth, and beyond

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@dan

@Stux

Of course, you can simply do that as well, using docker compose up -d anywhere.

Presumably if I do that, the app/project in question doesn’t show up in the TrueNAS GUI?

This is true. Vote for this:

Display non-ix managed stacks and containers on apps screen

Electric Eel includes Docker, and Docker Compose is used to power the apps The apps screen displays IX managed stacks. It would be helpful to also view non-IX managed stacks, and non stack containers. They could be displayed with generic icons, and the Details information could show generic information. docker has a property on all stacks which defines their stack, and containers without this property are not stacks. This would allow a user to understand what containers and stacks are runni…

@dan

What would you recommend as a method to install Dockge under EE that would be reasonably future-proof? I guess it could be its own custom compose app, and then point it to a suitable directory (dataset, maybe?) for the remaining stacks/projects?

Install Dockge from the apps store. Use a “stacks” and a “dockge” dataset host path. Although you could use ix-volume for the dockge dataset.

The stacks dataset is then your “compose” directory which can be backed up/replicated/migrated/relocated etc

I cover this in this video

TrueNAS Scale: Migrating Sandboxes to Docker in Electric Eel // Compose, Dockge & Jailmaker