Hey everybody.
I wanted to try HomedockOS (just for fun, after running umbrelOS in linux) on Truenas. I’ve been using umbrelOS for about 2 months. It’s a great way to try out docker software with just one-click installs in a contained environment. HomedockOS is just another such instance that focuses on making docker deployments easy.
So just as a disclaimer: I wouldn’t recommend using this in a permanent/production environment. But it’s great to quickly test docker software, especially if it isn’t available in Truenas as a community app.
The steps I took to run this in a container on Truenas 25.10.1 are:
- Create a container with the following parameters:
- Choose a name for the container
- Create a container with Ubuntu yammy (ubuntu 22) image
- deselect default network settings and make sure to select the appropriate NIC (in my case I use a bridge, so I selected br1
- add storage to the container by pointing it to a dataset (preferably create a new one)
- Everything else can be left as default
- Press create
- Curl isn’t installed yet. Within the container shell run:
apt install curl
- Use curl to install HomedockOS with this command
curl -fsSL https://get.homedock.cloud | sudo bash
- follow the onscreen instructions to login to HomedockOS. Copy the text! The shell will automatically refresh and disappear.
For more info on these instructions, visit the homedockOS website