Rock-ons changelog

Announcements
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Today we announce an update to one of our rock-ons:

Updates

  • Plex (Github link): Thanks to @Hooverdan for updating our Plex rock-on to give it support for hardware transcoding by QuickSync. Those with a compatible Intel CPU (see ark.intel.com) can now take advantage of QuickSync to speed up transcoding in Plex. As the new rock-on definition needs to be refreshed, one will need to first uninstall the rock-on, and then click on the ‘Update’ button in the top right corner of the Rock-ons page before re-installing the Plex rock-on using the same shares and settings. During the re-installation process, make sure to fill the field labeled “QuickSync device” with the correct path (likely to be /dev/dri), and you should now be able to enable hardware acceleration in Plex settings. Thanks again @Hooverdan for this contribution!
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Today we announce the following changes to our rock-ons catalog:

  • Addition: 1
  • Removal: 1

New rock-on

  • Duplicati - by Linuxserver.io (Github link): Thanks to @HBDK for the suggestion to move our current Duplicati rock-on (now deprecated, see below) to a much more recent and continuously maintained image provided by the Linuxserver.io team. We are now offering an up-to-date, and well-maintained image for Duplicati. As a reminder, Duplicati is a free and open-source backup software providing a user-friendly interface for automated and encrypted backups to local or remote locations with a wide range of online providers and protocols supported. See the notes below for further details on how to migrate to this new rock-on. Thanks @HBDK for your suggestions and feedback!

Removal

  • Duplicati2-canary: as the docker image used by this rock-on has not been updated for a very long time, we are now deprecating this rock-on in favor of a well-maintained and up-to-date offering (see above). We recommend all users to migrate to this new rock-on. Notably, if the same share used for the now-deprecated rock-on is used as Config Storage during the installation of the new Duplicati - by Linuxserver.io rock-on, all the backups that were previously set up should be detected automatically. Make sure to also update the database paths as further detailed in the rock-on “more info” section (little “i” icon next to the on/off toggle switch). Thanks again to @HBDK for this recommendation and instructions!
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Today we announce the following changes to our rock-ons catalog:

  • 1 Addition

New rock-on

  • Nginx Proxy Manager (Github link): Thanks to @DarkYamik for taking the lead in writing a rock-on for the Nginx Proxy Manager (created by Jamie Curnow). As its name indicates, this project allows to manage Nginx proxy hosts with a simple yet powerful user interface, with the goal of removing the need for manually editing configuration files. While some brief usage instructions can be found in the project’s Github repository, we have an opened issue to create a more detailed documentation for its use in Rockstor (see link below). If you’re experienced in using the Nginx reverse proxy, feel free to suggest feedback or contribute! Thanks @DarkYamik for your suggestions and feedback!
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Today we announce the following changes to our rock-ons catalog:

  • 1 Addition
  • 1 Update

New rock-on

  • HandBrake (Github link): Thanks to @Michael_Arthur for sharing his new rock-on for HandBrake. Handbrake is an open-source video transcoder that supports a wide variety of format (both input and outputs). It even supports hardware transcoding via Intel Quick Sync. Using the docker image prepared by jlesage, it presents the user with the handBrake interface from your web browser. Thanks @Michael_Arthur for your contribution!

Update

  • Bitwarden-rs (Github link): Thanks to Github user @guppy0130 for updating his rock-on for Bitwarden-rs, the password manager. This rock-on is now using the new official image, helping assure a well-maintained and up-to-date solution. For current users of this rock-on, you will first need to uninstall it, then click on the “Update” button in the Rock-ons web-UI to refresh the rock-on definition before re-installing it. As the new image is fully compatible with the previous one, the new rock-on can simply be re-installed using the same shares as previously used. Thanks again to Github user @guppy0130 for his sustained contributions!
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As from 2 days ago we have the following Rock-on availability changes:

  • 3 Additions

New rock-ons

  • Folding@home Linuxserver.io (Github link) I am delighted to have added this particularly pertinent and most welcome addition to our growing catalog. This projects, by default, allows folks to donate a portion of their systems processing power towards ‘Any disease’ - which as one might imagine now prioritises ‘you know what’. If your Rockstor system can spare it I would encourage you to consider this most welcome addition. This is currently a CPU only implementation but few NAS arrangements have GPU anyway and there are ‘pertinent’ CPU ‘work units’ available as of writing.

  • PostgreSQL 9.5 (Github link) Thanks to forum member @Hooverdan for this polished addition prepared in response to a forum discussion by @AudioDan24 as their project at the time was hosting a database for DaVinci Resolve. This is somewhat new ground for Rockstor as this one has no Web-UI. We do have ‘in the works’ capabilities developed by the venerable @Flox to cater for less ‘all in one’ more idealised containers such as this, i.e. single service units, but this work is, alas, not our current priority. But we are aiming to be able to setup private networks between Rock-ons to allow for more idealised single service Rock-ons such as this. All in good time however and as always, bit by bit.

  • PostgreSQL 10.6 (Github link) Thanks to Github user holmesb for there patience and persistence in proposing and pruning another specifically versioned Postges Database Management System (DBMS), which was actually the basis for our above 9.5 addition. It would seem that many services expect particular versions of these cornerstone server systems and so we now have two key versions available.

Here we see a potential flaw / short-coming in our not currently exposing the capability to select specific versions of such servers as PostgreSQL, it’s not always that straight forward however, as folks may expect to re-use an existing config and simply re-install their Rock-on with a different tag and the same share, but if we indicate those Rock-ons that would suffer form such sensitivities we may in the future be able to have a one size (Rock-on) that fits all available ‘tags’ for the given image. @Hooverdan and @Flox have begun this ‘journey of discovery’ on how we can maintain our ease of use and not have an ever growing list of PostgreSQL Rock-ons or the like, see Github issue #218 by @Hooverdan for the first step in this journey.

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Things have been extremely busy for everybody lately, but I’m finally getting to tackling our rockon-backlog. Today we thus announce the following changes to our rock-ons catalog:

  • 2 Additions

New rock-ons

  • Node-Red (Github link): Thanks to @dont for sharing his new rock-on for Node-RED. This one has actually been available for a little while so my apologies @dont for not getting to this announcement earlier. Node-RED is a low-code programming tool for event-driven applications and thus provides an easy to use interface for wiring together hardware devices, API’s and online services. This rock-on is using the project’s official docker image. Thanks @dont for your contribution!

  • MinIO (Github link): Thanks to @m.mcpherson for sharing his new rock-on for MinIO. MinIO is an S3-compatible object storage server and has been a rock-on requested by our community, so thanks a lot @m.mcpherson for stepping up and sharing your work on this! This rock-on is using the project’s official docker image. Note that @m.mcpherson also wrote a detailed documentation on how to use this rock-on, so don’t hesitate to have a look at it if you’re interested!

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We have a lot to announce today as we’ve made a substantial dent in our rock-on backlog. We indeed had a lot of updates to make, in addition to adding new rock-ons; we can thus announce the following changes to our rock-ons catalog:

  • 4 Additions
  • 4 Removals

New rock-ons

  • Jellyfin (Github link): Thanks to @StephenBrown2 for sharing his new rock-on for Jellyfin. Jellyfin started as an open-source fork of the Emby media streamer project and is now a fully-fledged and rapidly improving media streamer comparable to Plex and Emby. This rock-on uses the image provided by Linuxserver.io, and is thus compatible with both the x86_64 and aarch64/arm64 architectures. Thanks a lot @StephenBrown2 for your contribution!

  • Logitech Media Server (Github link): @Hooverdan has been a key contributor in this update back and this is one of their many contributions! Our Logitech Squeezebox rock-on was outdated and needed a big update, so @Hooverdan stepped up to the ask and created a new rock-on using an up-to-date and maintained image. This rock-on is thus a replacement for our now-deprecated Logitech Squeezebox rock-on (see below). Thanks again @Hooverdan!

  • SickChill (Github link): Thanks again to @Hooverdan for yet another contribution. SickChill is the successor to our SickRage rock-on that is now deprecated, and is an automatic video library manager for TV shows. Our Sickrage rock-on was outdated as the project has been deprecated, so @Hooverdan stepped up to the ask and created a new rock-on for its alternative.

  • Watchtower official (Github link): Another important contribution by @Hooverdan. Watchtower allows for the automatic update of docker containers and can thus be used to update any rock-on of interest. Note that as for any automated update, this should inherently be considered with precaution. Our previous rock-on was outdated as the image used has been deprecated, so @Hooverdan stepped up to the ask and created a new rock-on using the official image.

Removal

  • Sickbeard(Github link): As detailed in the corresponding Github issue, the Sickbeard project is no longer maintained and the image that we were using has not been updated in 3 years. As multiple replacements and alternatives exist, we thus decided to deprecate our Sickbeard rock-on and expand alternatives instead (see Sonarr and SickChill rock-ons).

  • Logitech Squeezebox(Github link): As detailed in the corresponding Github issue, our rock-on for the Logitech Squeezebox has now been outdated and needed to be replaced with a much newer image. Thanks to @Hooverdan, we now have a replacement: Logitech Media Server rock-on. We can thus now deprecate the out-of-date Logitech Squeezebox.

  • Watchtower(Github link): As detailed in the corresponding Github issue, our rock-on for Watchtower was using an outdated and unmaintained image. As we now have a replacement using the Watchtower official image thanks to @Hooverdan, we can thus now deprecate the out-of-date Watchtower.

  • Sickrage(Github link): As detailed in the corresponding Github issue, the Sickrage project is no longer maintained. As we now have an alternative (SickChill) thanks to @Hooverdan, we can thus now deprecate the out-of-date Sickrage rock-on.

As always, clicking the “Update” button in the top right of the “Rock-ons” page is necessary for your system to pull these changes and any rock-on that is installed will not be removed.

Despite all these changes, we still have more to come. Visit the rock-on registry repository and its issue tracker as well as pending pull requests for more information.

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