Baa 🐑Back when TrueCharts supported TrueNAS, for a very small fraction of time we had a really cool ecosystem of community applications that could be installed and setup all from within a decently user-friendly GUI experience, that could only get better over time.
However, once TrueNAS switched away from Kubernetes and TrueCharts decided they'd had enough of the constant abuse from the TrueNAS community and cut them off, we lost all that.
Now, we have TrueNAS with it's own catalogue of officially supported applications installed through Docker Compose, which they always had but always lacked the additional features that TrueCharts offered, such as sidecar VPN configurations for specific applications, which imo is what makes TrueCharts really useful.
TrueCharts now seperately maintains a catalogue of Helm Charts for Kubernetes (which is actually whatthey always did) but, with no decent user-friendly way to deploy them in a self-hosting environment.
TrueCharts' quick-start guide goes straight into the depths of Kubernetes setup, they have multiple vague references to different possible set-ups but no recommended way to self-host this stuff.
If I asked they'd probably tell me it's out of scope, what TrueCharts really do is build Helm Charts, that's all they're interested in and that's all they support.
What I'd really like is an OS that does exactly what the TrueNAS Scale app catalogue did. A kubernetes cluster, with a GUI web console that can have custom helm chart catalogues which you ca pick from a list, click install, get a GUI input form, click deploy, and see it map ports and such.
I can use Kubernetes in the terminal, I can deploy and maintain linux servers, I could do it all day all the time, but sometimes I just want things to be easy and I want to pretend I'm a Power User who's best skill is using the registry editor of Windows.
So in conclusion, TrueNAS new software offerings are lacking features I want. TrueCharts' catalogue has no decent way of being used, so far as I know.
If anyone is using TrueCharts I'd be interested in knowing your setup, I'd like to update TrueNAS again but I want to keep my sidecar VPN config apps in some way.
And if anyone is using TrueNAS Scale and they've achieved per-app VPN somehow I'd be interested in seeing that too.
#truenas #truecharts #helm #kubernetes #selfhosting #linux
However, once TrueNAS switched away from Kubernetes and TrueCharts decided they'd had enough of the constant abuse from the TrueNAS community and cut them off, we lost all that.
Now, we have TrueNAS with it's own catalogue of officially supported applications installed through Docker Compose, which they always had but always lacked the additional features that TrueCharts offered, such as sidecar VPN configurations for specific applications, which imo is what makes TrueCharts really useful.
TrueCharts now seperately maintains a catalogue of Helm Charts for Kubernetes (which is actually whatthey always did) but, with no decent user-friendly way to deploy them in a self-hosting environment.
TrueCharts' quick-start guide goes straight into the depths of Kubernetes setup, they have multiple vague references to different possible set-ups but no recommended way to self-host this stuff.
If I asked they'd probably tell me it's out of scope, what TrueCharts really do is build Helm Charts, that's all they're interested in and that's all they support.
What I'd really like is an OS that does exactly what the TrueNAS Scale app catalogue did. A kubernetes cluster, with a GUI web console that can have custom helm chart catalogues which you ca pick from a list, click install, get a GUI input form, click deploy, and see it map ports and such.
I can use Kubernetes in the terminal, I can deploy and maintain linux servers, I could do it all day all the time, but sometimes I just want things to be easy and I want to pretend I'm a Power User who's best skill is using the registry editor of Windows.
So in conclusion, TrueNAS new software offerings are lacking features I want. TrueCharts' catalogue has no decent way of being used, so far as I know.
If anyone is using TrueCharts I'd be interested in knowing your setup, I'd like to update TrueNAS again but I want to keep my sidecar VPN config apps in some way.
And if anyone is using TrueNAS Scale and they've achieved per-app VPN somehow I'd be interested in seeing that too.
#truenas #truecharts #helm #kubernetes #selfhosting #linux
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