TrueNAS CORE 13.3-RELEASE in August

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Do you happen to have any data you are able to share about plugin use?

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Doesn’t every user who tries one start a new thread asking why it’s not working? :joy:

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Plugins don’t work? …I installed Nextcloud with a plugin about a month ago (I still use my older nextcloud jail instead but I was able to create a newer nextcloud jail and log in).

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It’s hit and miss these days.

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Well, that’s something to fix (in the “community edition”…if that ever takes off).

First thought that comes to mind:

  1. Keep iocage but offer simple scripts you can fetch.

I’ve seen one script to install XYZ plugin but that was to be run from the host; it may be easier to create the jail on the host and then iocage console in and fetch the script instead. A simple CLI interface could be created to offer up a choice of scipts to fetch. This would also keep the host clean.

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I prefer scripts run from the host TBH. It allows you to integrate mount points without having to fetch, then stop the jail and add mount points, and see if everything works.

Most software installs stuff directly, and to mount it then requires you to empty the folder, mount it, and retransfer the data into it.

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iX have never had the bandwidth to properly maintain plugins. They didn’t with the original PBI-based ones (and abandoned them), they didn’t with the iocage-based ones (and abandoned them), and they don’t with the current Kubernetes-based ones (which is, they say, why they’re moving to Compose-based). If they, who have paid engineers on staff, aren’t able to keep up with this, what makes you think a “community edition” that’s never going to exist anyway will?

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Darn! Good point (you had me at ‘mount points’). I forgot about mounting. Well, I guess scripting is still the way to go.

However, iX going to support plugins until 2025 when 13.3 goes EOL so I still think the first priority to get the bas os updated and then get some scripts built/updated.

I’ve wanted a generic “config” script code/function/ability lately, so I’ll see if I can mock something up for use in some jail scripts. This way we could replicate the docker/nomad/etc. user config file mechanism.

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Oh, I hear ya! But, at least I’ll going to give it a shot.

It probably won’t (highly likely). And, I already have my plan in place that doesn’t include TrueNAS but, I guess, at least I’m trying to do something. So, to answer your question(s): not sure. Wanna help?

ADDED:
I watched a CS Engineer knock a zero or two off Autodesk’s profit margin over a “discussion about an API question he had” once (it was awe inspiring).

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…just to list a few.

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This seems to have diverged a lot from the original topic. Closing out, please open a General Discussion if there is conversation to be had about scripts / iocage and legacy things.

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Nice. If we (I) create a ‘user config’ interface thing, would you update those or are those abandoned?