[-] azukaar@alien.top 2 points 11 months ago

You can, not all feature will work thought because with traefik, if you use labels based routes you won't be able to chain proxies

[-] azukaar@alien.top 2 points 11 months ago

Yep it was a huge pain in the ass!

[-] azukaar@alien.top 2 points 11 months ago

Thanks!

On syno a simple docker run will do it, there's nothing "Specific" to syno AFAIK

Aside from freeing the ports 80/443 if you want to use them

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submitted 11 months ago by azukaar@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum

link: https://github.com/azukaar/Cosmos-Server/

Hello everyone!

December is upon us and it is time for me to hibernate. But before, let me introduce you the last update of the year: the holiday QoL update!

Before I do that, I have started a product hunt profile, if you have a second please take a moment to support the projet: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/cosmos-7 :)

As a reminder, and for newcomers, Cosmos is a:

  • App Store ๐Ÿ“ฆ๐Ÿ“ฑ To easily install and manage your applications, with simple installers, automatic updates and security checks. This works alongside manual installation methods, such as importing docker-compose files, or the docker CLI
  • Customizable Homepage ๐Ÿ ๐Ÿ–ผ To access all your applications from a single place, with a beautiful and customizable UI
  • Reverse-Proxy ๐Ÿ”„๐Ÿ”— Targeting containers, other servers, or serving static folders / SPA with automatic HTTPS, and a nice UI
  • Authentication Server ๐Ÿ‘ฆ๐Ÿ‘ฉ With strong security, multi-factor authentication and multiple strategies (OpenId, forward headers, HTML)
  • Container manager ๐Ÿ‹๐Ÿ”ง To easily manage your containers and their settings, keep them up to date as well as audit their security. Includes docker-compose support!
  • VPN ๐ŸŒ๐Ÿ”’ To securely access your applications from anywhere, without having to open ports on your router.
  • Monitoring ๐Ÿ“ˆ๐Ÿ“Š Fully persisting and real-time monitoring with customizable alerts and notifications, so you can be notified of any issue.
  • Identity Provider ๐Ÿ‘ฆ๐Ÿ‘ฉ To easily manage your users, invite your friends and family to your applications without awkardly sharing credentials. Let them request a password change with an email rather than having you unlock their account manually!
  • SmartShield technology ๐Ÿง ๐Ÿ›ก Automatically secure your applications without manual adjustments (see below for more details). Includes anti-bot and anti-DDOS strategies.

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ANYWAY! In this holiday update, I came back on the most demanded quality of life features on Cosmos, and finally got around to implementing them!

First: Stacks. Cosmos now supports cosmos stacks AND docker-compose stacks, so it will pick up your existing docker-compose stacks, and display them together in the UI:

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2 stacks in my servapps

Click on one of them and you will get the details of the containers. You can start, stop restart and destroy the entire stack all at once as well!

Which brings me to my second points, deletion. Isn't it annoying to delete a container, THEN delete the volumes, THEN delete the networks, then the routes? Well now you don't have to anymore, as deleting a container brings up the delete wizard:

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This is so satisfying!! Wait... Did I just nuke my Immich instance for this screenshot? You bet I did!

Few other improvements went into this release but I cannot finish without mentionning, ICON EDITION! I cannot count how many times people asked me how to edit their icons... Well now you can actually do it!

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https://preview.redd.it/l3u8hfqych2c1.png?width=600&format=png&auto=webp&s=a7317b24fa271a17498ee4376c8b24cfd0fcbcc5

OK! This wraps up the year nicely. Next year is full of exciting things and challenges, both for Cosmos and the selfhosting community, and I am very excited about it! I hope you are too!

Next year is going to be a big year, first the next update is the one where I will finally solve some existential crisis about Cosmos, where a few things are not what they shoud be because of the form factor. I might even end up take Cosmos out of Docker, in order to simplify many of the processes. Lots of work ahead.

But for now, I wish you all great holidays, whichever ones you celebrate, enjoy some nice xmas movies on Jellyfin, music with navidrome, and keep your holidays memory safe on Immich, I will see you next year with some exciting stuff!

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complete changelog:

  • Display container stacks as a group in the UI
  • New Delete modal to delete services entirely
  • Upload custom icons to containers
  • improve backup file, by splitting cosmos out to a separate docker-compose.yml file
  • Cosmos-networks now have specific names instead for generic names
  • Fix issue where search bar reset when deleting volume/network
  • Fix breadcrumbs in subpaths
  • Remove graphs from non-admin UI to prevent errors
  • Rewrite the overwriting container logic to fix race conditions
  • Edit container user and devices from UI
  • Fix bug where Cosmos Constellation's UDP ports by a TCP one
  • Fix a bug with URL screen, where you can't delete a URL when there is a search
  • Fix issue where negative network rate are reported
  • Support array command and single device in docker-compose import
  • Add default alerts... by default (was missing from the default config)
  • disable few features liks Constellation, Backup and Monitoring when in install mode to reduce logs and prevent issues with the DB
[-] azukaar@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Another way of seeing it is, if Cosmos wasn't a container it would see `/` anyway. It's not extra access, it's just a workaround for Docker

[-] azukaar@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you!

Yes keeping your containers updated is a huge step toward preserving the server's security

[-] azukaar@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Cosmos is a fully fledged server management platform, as such it requires those access to the host server in order to operate.

"--privileged -v /:/mnt/host" is not as bad of a thing as you would think in that context, in fact it is equivalent to running a daemon like you would with any other alternative (CasaOS, Umbrel, etc..) those are just requirement for Cosmos to run with the same level of exposure as those alternatives who are not docker containers.

My only alternative would have been to make Cosmos a daemon and not a container, but then it would make install and maintenance harder

I understand your point, and yes ideally it would run as an isolated container, but it's just not possible to have a supervisor software managing your server running in an isolated container with no container, it is contradictory

I propose as alternative to run Cosmos with lower privilege, in which case some features will not work but the default is to run cosmos with the privileges it requires for all features to work as expected.

And the bottom line, the security benefits behind Cosmos for your average home-server outweigh by far this "--privileged -v /:/mnt/host". Slight reminder than a very large portion of people running alternatives like Casa, Umbrel, etc... Also expose those root daemon without even HTTPS or anything!

[-] azukaar@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

It does not include volume data, but backing up volumes is a planned feature too, it's just a lot more difficult of a feature to develop :p

Basically backing up volumes is easy without Cosmos, it's just a folder, but backing up your container is much harder, that's why I added it in priority

[-] azukaar@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Glad to hear it :)

[-] azukaar@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

If you are experiencing any performance issue, feel free to document them to me so I can investigate your setup and potentially fix any shortcomings :)

[-] azukaar@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

It's an interesting initiative, a bit of progress to do on the storytelling but I'm sure you'll figure it out as you go, good luck with starting your blog

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submitted 1 year ago by azukaar@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum

Link: github.com/azukaar/cosmos-Server/

Cosmos 0.11.0 is out with a new backup system to export all your docker containers! The Linux and Mac clients are also out for some early testing, please share your feedback!

https://preview.redd.it/htjbg0ze5rvb1.jpg?width=1695&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=944ae33ae00c67159eddecf4ff923a1a0141e106

The new backup system works by reading the list of containers on your server and exporting a single compose file, with all the setup you need to recreate (in case of crash) or migrate your server.

The backup system triggers on every docker change, including changes you've made outside of Cosmos (ex. Portainer, etc...).

It outputs to a single file in your config folder, which you can backup with various strategy to keep a history of your docker containers state!

As a reminder, this exists alongside the existing features:

  • App Store ๐Ÿ“ฆ๐Ÿ“ฑ To easily install and manage your applications, with simple installers, automatic updates and security checks
  • Customizable Homepage ๐Ÿ ๐Ÿ–ผ To access all your applications from a single place, with a beautiful and customizable UI
  • Reverse-Proxy ๐Ÿ”„๐Ÿ”— Targeting containers, other servers, or serving static folders / SPA with automatic HTTPS, and a nice UI
  • VPN ๐ŸŒ๐Ÿ”’ To securely access your applications from anywhere, without having to open ports on your router.
  • Authentication Server ๐Ÿ‘ฆ๐Ÿ‘ฉ With strong security, multi-factor authentication and multiple strategies (OpenId, forward headers, HTML)
  • Container manager ๐Ÿ‹๐Ÿ”ง To easily manage your containers and their settings, keep them up to date as well as audit their security. Includes docker-compose support!
  • Identity Provider ๐Ÿ‘ฆ๐Ÿ‘ฉ To easily manage your users, invite your friends and family to your applications without awkardly sharing credentials. Let them request a password change with an email rather than having you unlock their account manually!
  • SmartShield technology ๐Ÿง ๐Ÿ›ก Automatically secure your applications without manual adjustments (see below for more details). Includes anti-bot and anti-DDOS strategies.

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As always, eager to get some feedback on this release, here's the rest of the changelog:

- Docker export feature for backups on every docker event
- Disable support for X-FORWARDED-FOR incoming header (needs further testing)
- Compose Import feature now supports skipping creating existing resources
- Compose Import now overwrite containers if they are differents
- Added support for cosmos-persistent-env, to persist password when overwriting containers (useful for encrypted or password protected volumes, like databases use)
- Fixed bug where import compose would try to revert a previously created volume when errors occurs
- Terminal for import now has colours
- Fix a bug where ARM CPU would not be able to start Constellation

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happy hosting!

[-] azukaar@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Keep in mind that no being accessible from the internet does not mean it is safe as your local network is ALSO a very hostile environment with modern technologies (especially your PCs, smartphones , smart TV, and so on). Make sure you use HTTPS, proper authentication and so on to protect your server

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