So I missed the automatic migration/upgrade timeline, and I don’t feel like re-installing all my apps yet… is there a way to manually update an app?
In my case, I have n8n installed and it’s on a version that has a bug that I need to get fixed by updating to a newer version.
What can be done?
Thanks,
I honestly doubt there’s anything you can do without massive investment in rebuilding the apps catalogue yourself and somehow patching the app yourself. Bluefin is outdated for almost 1 1/2 to 2 years. If you ever decide to udpate from bluefin to any current version you have to re-build your app anyway because there’s no more automatic updates from kubernetes to docker.
I’d argue it would be easier to update to electric eel or fangtooth and invest the time to rebuild the app in docker.
n8n is already available as an app and if you’ve used hostpaths for storage it should be pretty easy to rebuild it without loosing data.
But without any more information on how the app is setup it’s hard to say.
Was the app from the truecharts catalogue or from the official ix-apps?
Thanks, I was afraid as much - my concern is not losing data as I have host paths set up, but it’s hard to find the time to dedicate a weekend to upgrading the system and reinstalling everything.
Most of my apps are from the official ix-apps charts, with only a couple custom apps launched. I ran away from truecharts a long time ago.
I’d propably update cobia and then dragonfish, which is the last version to use the kubernetes backend. Then i’d propably setup a nspawn container with jailmaker, install docker inside the jail and try to launch an n8n docker version with the hostpaths you use.
If it successfully deploys with the hostpaths you are using, i’d say there’s a high chance that it migrates to the ix-docker based app.
OK, thank you so much for the advice. I did have success upgrading my remote backup server, which has far fewer apps, only Jellyfin and TailScale, and had 0 issues getting the apps to run from existing hostpaths.
