I define my web apps as Pods in podman, and then run NGINX on the host itself proxying requests back to the containers. IвЂ™ve thought about moving into a kubernetes cluster, but I havenвЂ™t tackled that just yet. Nothing fancy, just a single CentOS 8 based Digital Ocean droplet.

Like I mentioned, I run my web apps in Podman. LetвЂ™s cover that, and then IвЂ™ll talk about how I moved the Storage to a bucket. I mentioned that I put NextCloud into a container. Come on! WeвЂ™ve moved past this! WeвЂ™re living in the future! Right? Building Nextcloud Planning today would mean allocating a 250GB disk or so, and then waiting for it to get filled up, and adding another, or replacing it with a larger one, later. Not just cost, which in the grand scheme of things isnвЂ™t that much, but it doesnвЂ™t expand easily. Digital Ocean is certainly affordable, which is why I run my stuff there instead of on AWS, but even still, hundreds of GB of attached storage has itвЂ™s limitations. This was OK, but when I decided to put ALL of my photos into NextCloud, it became obvious that the disk would need to be expanded. The problem with that was, all of the NextCloud content was being stored on the local virtual disk attached to the droplet. So when I started this endeavor I setup a NextCloud container, with a Collabora Office container, on my CentOS8 host, running in Podman. I run most of my public web apps/sites on a Digital Ocean droplet, inside of containers. If IвЂ™m sharing photos that IвЂ™ve taken for their beauty, I donвЂ™t want that scaled down unnecessarily. Granted, itвЂ™s not like Facebook, that scales them down to to a horribly low-res in order to save space, but they DO scale. The main one being, they scale your images. There are limitations there when youвЂ™re not uploading from a Google smart phone, like my Pixel. My solution for photo storage and sharing was Google Photos. nicer than any weвЂ™ve ever owned) digital camera, and weвЂ™ve started to toy with photography. My wife and I recently bought a nice (or. I had stood up this instance of NextCloud in order to give me a place to store photos that wouldnвЂ™t be scaled down. Check out the post that started this journey, Untangling my life from Google, for a little back-story there. I do have control over whatвЂ™s stored there though, and I get to decide itвЂ™s fate. Granted, I donвЂ™t have complete control over the direction of the NextCloud project. An option that I own, and have complete control over. My goal here isnвЂ™t to replace Google drive and photos, but to give me a second option. So, as I mentioned in my recent article about Google Photos, IвЂ™ve recently gotten back into the NextCloud game.

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