Setting up custom apps on 24.10 RC1

Apps and Virtualization
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I am a heavy user of custom apps. Now when I try to make a custom app after upgrading, I get asked for some yaml. I don’t know what to put in this yaml box. I know exactly what docker image to use, what commands, environment variables and mapped paths. Could someone please help me with this?

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I just came across a video and it has that yaml.
Maybe worth a watch https://youtu.be/R0Vdj1culo0?si=26W54V-WAOz8jWp3&t=442

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…also found How Compose works | Docker Docs
Note: I’ve never used any of these, but I wanted to help :innocent:

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the field is for a content of a docker-compose.yml file. like this example from dockerhub:

---
services:
  jellyfin:
    image: lscr.io/linuxserver/jellyfin:latest
    container_name: jellyfin
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - TZ=Etc/UTC
      - JELLYFIN_PublishedServerUrl=192.168.0.5 #optional
    volumes:
      - /path/to/jellyfin/library:/config
      - /path/to/tvseries:/data/tvshows
      - /path/to/movies:/data/movies
    ports:
      - 8096:8096
      - 8920:8920 #optional
      - 7359:7359/udp #optional
      - 1900:1900/udp #optional
    restart: unless-stopped

it defines the image to use, ports, storage network, env variables, labels, restart policy etc. storage mappings and in case of a multi container apps like nextcloud you could also include images for the database in one yaml and docker will spinn up both apps

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Thanks so much for the help both of you! Then I can get started, I’ve used Docker Compose before. Edit: The video seems useful for knowing how to convert them.

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If you know the command you’d use to launch the container, there are services to convert this into a compose file:
https://www.composerize.com/

You may also look into Portainer as an alternative to Dockge.

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So I’ve changed back to 24.04 (which is a super slick experience - real nice that all my config was still there). I’ll go back and try Portainer and set them up. (But I was “lying”, I don’t actually know all the parameters. I was planning to read them from the config backup, but I just found that’s a binary file, so first I need to dump this some other way).

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Just to conclude: It was a lot of work, but not more than expected. I’ve converted most of the apps. I used Portainer because the app search is strange and I didn’t think Dockge was available - but either way, Portainer is very good. I have a lot of trouble with Nextcloud from Apps, but I’ll post another question about that.

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