Support docker templates hosted on Gitlab

[silman]

Currently xml templates seem to be required to be hosted on Github. When I tried to add my xml template repo from Gitlab the template never showed up, but when i cloned the repo to gitlab it worked.

 

I prefer Gitlab and many other developers do too, would it be possible to support Gitlab for hosting xml?

[Squid]

Due to the prevalence of Community Applications, starting with 6.10, the template repositories page doesn't exist at all.

 

Your options for this are https://forums.unraid.net/topic/112170-allow-template-repositories-to-be-hosted-from-other-sources/?tab=comments#comment-1021630

 

 

In other words, Gitlab support on template repositories will never happen.  For stuff to be published for the Apps tab it's not a hard "no", but would need to be investigated

[silman]

7 minutes ago, Squid said:

Due to the prevalence of Community Applications, starting with 6.10, the template repositories page doesn't exist at all.

 

Your options for this are https://forums.unraid.net/topic/112170-allow-template-repositories-to-be-hosted-from-other-sources/?tab=comments#comment-1021630

 

 

In other words, Gitlab support on template repositories will never happen.  For stuff to be published for the Apps tab it's not a hard "no", but would need to be investigated

Oh, i didn't know it was going away.... Why bother removing a feature at all? I find the ability to add custom repositories nice, i used it a lot to test how my template would look to users who first downloaded it. Taking away perfectly fine functionality seems like a miss, couldn't Limetech just have hidden it behind an "advanced" toggle? I'm not even sure how template authors are going to test their template easily now.

 

Thanks for the info i guess, it doesn't feel great that CA apps xml must hosted on github; in fact, it feels a little odd to ignore Gitlab and Bitbucket considering they still have a huge market share and many developers prefer those to Github. I would understand if Unraid had a central gitlab repo for all it's CA apps, but that's not the case.

Edited March 13, 2022 by silman

[Squid]

17 minutes ago, silman said:

Why bother removing a feature at all?

It's been my mission for 6 years to remove it    Ultimately its a feature that has had multiple bugs in it for a couple of years (look at the select container dropdown - not *quite* organized the way it's supposed to, only master branch supported), and with valid and easy to use alternatives (CA Managed private or just dropping the xml into templates-user) its basically redundant to begin with.

 

And I never said CA apps MUST be hosted.  Said that I would investigate the alternative if someone insisted on it.  I couldn't care less, and both CA and the docker system doesn't care where the actual container is hosted on.  Both support any valid repository hosted on any valid container registry.

[silman]

55 minutes ago, Squid said:

CA Managed private

what is this? Is there a way to add custom private repositories to the CA Apps page?

[Squid]

https://forums.unraid.net/topic/112170-allow-template-repositories-to-be-hosted-from-other-sources/?do=findComment&comment=1021630

 

[silman]

3 minutes ago, Squid said:

https://forums.unraid.net/topic/112170-allow-template-repositories-to-be-hosted-from-other-sources/?do=findComment&comment=1021630

 

Ah i assumed there was some CA Plugin to give us the same feature as the custom repository box that is being taken away. I guess testing templates will just be more manual given they need to be copied to that location.