Now that the Nextcloud MariaDB is up and running, I can deploy a new workload for the Nextcloud FPM container into the Nextcloud namespace. There are a few pre-requisites to take care of first. Redis # Redis is an in-memory key value store. Nextcloud uses it to prevent file locking problems. It doesn’t require persistent storage or any special configuration. If I wanted to customize the Redis configuration, I would do that with a Config Map mounted at /etc/redis/redis.

I mentioned in an earlier post that one of my side goals for this project was to set up a (Windows) VM which would allow me to utilize Nvidia Gamestream and Moonlight (or an Nvidia Shield) to play games which run on Window exclusively. I did this previously using a Windows 10 VM on Proxmox with GPU passthrough, but I couldn’t get the video drivers to intialize the card. It got an error 43 in device manager.

Things have gotten a little busy on the work front so I haven’t gotten back to working on Nextcloud, but I came across a post about the FreedomBox so I went off on a small tangent. The aim of FreedomBox is designed to be an easy-to-setup-server for self-hosting applications which is privacy-centric. It can run on a single-board computer, in a VM, or on any hardware supported by Debian. You can even buy a small device pre-configured to run Freedom Box (Note: I’m not affiliated in any way with FreedomBox).

Nextcloud is the first “production” service to be deployed. Everything else has been building the foundation for Nextcloud and the services which follow it - Mailcow, OpenPGP, Keybase.io, server hardware, Proxmox, NFS and iSCSi storage, Rancher OS, Kubernetes LDAP, and Keycloak SSO. Nextcloud will utilize all of the patterns that I’ve learned so far with a new wrinkle - it will utilize FPM-PHP to make it perform effciently under load. PHP-FPM is an interface between the web server and external processes such as PHP which eliminates the overhead of creating a separate process for each request.

In my last post, I stated that I would be moving on to deploying the first “real” application which will bring all of this together. In fact, I decided that Nextcloud would be that first deployment. However, while reading the installation documentation and looking at how it would integrate with an external authentication provider, I decided that I needed to learn how authentication works on the web works a little better.