I’ve tried NextCloud before and didn’t really love it and I’m now happy with a combination of syncthing and LibreOffice. But my wife wants the full google drive, with sheets, docs etc. without the google, and I think NextCloud is my best option for that.
I’m and experienced *nix admin and already have a Linux server running with both VMs and docker containers and also have a working OpenVPN setup for remote access. But I found the NextCloud setup frustrating. We had a discussion about it (here I think) and determined that this was because NextCloud would rather sell their hosted service, so they don’t go out of their way to make the self hosted option easy. I get that and don’t hold it against them at all.
But, now that I’m wanting to try it again, I’m looking for pointers to guides for setting up self hosted NextCloud. I’ve searched, but nothing I found seemed like “the one”.
I run nextcloud in a podman pod because I’m coocoo bananas that way. It uses authentik as an SSO provider using the nextcloud OIDC plugin. And I use the linuxserver.io container rather than the official nextcloud one because gosh darn it , it actually works
[Pod] PodName=nextcloud PublishPort=10443:443 PublishPort=9980:9980Nextcloud-db.container
Description=db Wants=network-online.target After=network-online.target [Service] Restart=always [Container] Pod=nextcloud.pod ContainerName=nextcloud-db Image=docker.io/library/mariadb:11 AutoUpdate=registry Volume=nextcloud-db.volume:/var/lib/mysql:Z Environment=MARIADB_HOST=nextcloud Environment=MARIADB_DATABASE=nextcloud Environment=MARIADB_USER=nextcloud Environment=MARIADB_PASSWORD=nextcloud Environment=MARIADB_ROOT_PASSWORD=nextcloud [Install] WantedBy=default.targetNextcloud-app.container
[Unit] Description=Nextcloud Wants=network-online.target After=network-online.target [Service] Restart=always [Container] #Label=app=nextcloud ContainerName=nextcloud-app Pod=nextcloud.pod Image=lscr.io/linuxserver/nextcloud:latest AutoUpdate=registry Volume=nextcloud-config.volume:/config:Z #Volume=nextcloud-data.volume:/data:Z Volume=/home/nextcloud/:/data:Z Environment=TZ=America/New_York Environment=PUID=1000 Environment=PGID=1000 #PublishPort=10443:443 [Install] WantedBy=default.targetNextcloud-office.container
[Unit] Description=Nextcloud-office Wants=network-online.target After=network-online.target [Service] Restart=always [Container] #Label=app=nextcloud ContainerName=nextcloud-office Pod=nextcloud.pod Image=docker.io/collabora/code:latest AutoUpdate=registry Environment=server_name=office.app.myserver.org Environment=aliasgroup1="https://nextcloud.app.myserver.org/" [Install] WantedBy=default.targetAlways nice to see podman used well! Do you have a dedicated user or is it rootful?
many of the linuxserver containers don’t work rootless. i didn’t have luck when i tried it as a user service
Interesting, do you remember which didn’t work? I recently set up a simple service (navidrome) as rootless podman with an ansible script, but it was… there were some hoops to jump through, mainly with the uid/gid and machinectl to get it to work.