Nextcloud on Jose Castrillo

Automation a Nextcloud as a Podman Container

Sun, 30 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve been thinking to upgrade my Nextcloud service also switching to another alternative rather than docker, hence I used podman and buildah in my solution.

From the rockylinux.org I found a nice post where it describes how to build and provisioning by using buildah and podman, it works pretty good and I added a tool in order to run it faster, called taskfile.

Requirements:

Podman
Buildah
Taskfile

Install taskfile
Clone my project
From the project you can see the task defined:

version: "3"

tasks:
  up-db:
    dir: "db/mariadb"
    preconditions:
      - test -f db-init.sh
    cmds:
      - bash db-init.sh

  create-app:
    dir: "app"
    preconditions:
      - test -f run.sh
    cmds:
      - mkdir nc nc/nextcloud nc/apps nc/config nc/data
      - task: up-db
      - bash run.sh

  build_base:
    dir: "db/base"
    preconditions:
      - test -f build.sh
    cmds:
      - bash build.sh

  build_tools:
    dir: "db/db-tools"
    preconditions:
      - test -f build.sh
    cmds:
      - bash build.sh

  build_maria:
    dir: "db/mariadb"
    preconditions:
      - test -f build.sh
    cmds:
      - bash build.sh

  build_db:
    cmds:
      - task: build_base
      - task: build_tools
      - task: build_maria

  up-app:
    cmds:
      - podman container start nextcloud

Main task to build and run nextcloud:

Upgrading major version Nextcloud

Sat, 20 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000

For those who have been facing the “Maintenance mode active” after applied a nextcloud upgrade by switching container image version, due a major versioning issue.

Even when you issue the occ upgrade into continer you gets hit by something like below:


www-data@87401bdd2fa8:~/html$ php /var/www/html/occ upgrade
Nextcloud or one of the apps require upgrade - only a limited number of commands are available
You may use your browser or the occ upgrade command to do the upgrade
Setting log level to debug
Exception: Updates between multiple major versions and downgrades are unsupported.
Update failed
Maintenance mode is kept active
Resetting log level

Keep a eye on this part: Updates between multiple major versions and downgrades are unsupported. as I was running 25 version I can no jump for above 27, if that’s our case, we can edit the file app/config/config.php edit the version of your nextcloud like below:

Open a Nextcloud's DB through a ssh connection

Mon, 23 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000

The following post explains how to open and connect your Nextcloud’s DB (MariaDB) by a ssh tunnel.

Field description:

Server side(GNULinux):
- Nextcloud: running on Docker-compose engine.
- OS: Debian with Docker compose installed.
- Database: MariaDB.
Localhost side(GNULinux):
- OS: Fedora.
- CLient: Dbeader 7.2.5

Further information you can go to my docker compose Statement here.

Edit your docker-compose.yml and add the “ports” key into the statement.

$ nano docker-compose.yml
  ports:
    - 5555:3306

port: 5555 –> Host.
port: 3306 –> Container.

From the above the port “5555” it was used as example.

Nextcloud bot as Notification System

Fri, 09 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Following the last post, where I shared how to use Telegram’s bot; on this post I’m going to explain how implement it by Chat Nextcloud API. This post is useful for those have a Nexctcloud deployment running at home/cloud.

Assuming you have already Nextcloud up and running, we can create the new user, that we are gonna use it as “BOT” we will need the chat room token and the “BOT” credentials.