Yes but only as a NAS, TrueNAS Core does not allow my HDD's to spin down for some reason. Have you looked into Truecommand? Perhaps soon there will be a way to manage containers from Truecommand.
Have been since rc2, the apps part is still not 100% though... I used to switch off my server for the night and had it boot up automatically in the morning. In RC2 half of the times my apps did not show up or load, be it truecharts or truenas native apps. Sometimes my one docker container would run and that was it, other times the system could not find any applications or containers. most of the times I had to reinstall the Truenas app because it would remain stuck deploying. The error was hard to reproduce however so i never filed a bug report. Release is better but I still have the issue from time to time. Now I leave my system on 24/7.
Yes! Man, your timing releasing this video is perfect. I just installed TrueNAS Scale last week. I'd been running FreeNAS for a few years. Like you, I am also hoping that eventually I can deploy applications remotely to the k3s cluster. Until then I think I will provision one or more VMs in TrueNAS Scale and then setup up kubernetes on them, probably k3s.
Great video, one note is in the beginning you had mentioned creating folders for each service you want to run on the system but it would be better to create datasets for each one for greater control over the data, such as the ability to do snapshots per dataset.
Thanks Tom! That's a really good point! I typically have one dataset for my apps and then let them inherit permissions from the parent but you are absolutely right!! Good to see you here!
Great video TechnoTim! TrueNAS team, thanks for the great project, the official Pi-Hole chart does not expose the required ports and does not work as expected. Installed the version from TrueCharts and it is working.
The only reason why I have a homelab is because I wanted to do pretty much exactly this and FreeNAS Corral was going to let me do it with a nice slick UI. In the time I was waiting or my hardware to come in, the Corral project got the axe. I'm thrilled to see this functionality make a return in Scale and improved by building building it with k3s.
You are very good at explaining Tim, thank you for this useful video. I just installed TrueNas Scale and discovering, virtualization and Container management.
Great video, so helpful. I was getting lost in the Kubernetes documentation but you explained a lot of the configuration options and how to launch/configure a custom "ad-hoc" docker image.
Great video Tim, I am new to TrueNAS Scale but to be honest I absolutely love it. I think after watching this video again I have figured it out. Thanks again Tim I appreciate you.
After catching the end of your vid, I tried playing with adding an nfs share via manifests using portainer and so far so good. Will be validating between a few servers instances, but been struggling with this for a bit and this video and a walkthrough I bookmarked a year ago finally got me going.
I am seriously tempted to test out TrueNAS-Scale, but I fear that it is not as mature as it would like to be. A lot of issues with upgrading according to the latest stable release posted on the forum. It is very interesting though, to utilize such a beast, have been looking for something like this for a while. Currently I'm using Portainer and Docker on KVM servers, which is simple and stable. Portainer is moving along nicely. What I am researching right now is edge tech, to be able to administrate devices on the edge through e.g. Portainer. I will follow TrueNAS-Scale and see if it matures up and become as stable as I would want. I will test TrueNAS on Proxmox today. Thank you for your video.
Update: TrueNAS Scale is now running on my Proxmox and it is cool. The update issues are just cosmetic, will be fixed in the next release. So far so good. Will try to port my Dockers to this install and see how it goes. Now to the testing. Update2: TrueNAS-Scale is cool, though I need a better CPU in order to be satisfied with the performance. I knew that, but it was worth it. Next step is to upgrade my server to something bigger, meanwhile I return to the lightweight Docker install with Portainer as my UI. I like TrueNAS-Scale and it will become a major actor on my network in the future.
Are you still using Truenas scale? I plan on switching to either Truenas or Unraid from Synology but am worried about truenas not being super mature and running into issues
@@DlxyRekt For Docker I still use Portainer and it is very stable. For NAS I am no longer on Scale, I keep it simple and pure. I have no long-term data on Scale as my needs are different now. I might test Scale again later on to see if it has matured.
Hey, thanks for stepping through the options Tim! I like scale because its linux based and its a great compliment to proxmox. Also, I hope you can do a video on running Scale VMs and the VM networking. I tried following forum posts and guide, but no working results.
Thanks for the detailed explanation. It all looked a bit daunting when I took a look at it. I was given a QNAP and because of all the vulnerability with QNAPs, I installed TrueNas Scale on it. I'm just using it to backup my Synology NAS, which is where I deploy my docker apps, but I'm keen to put some on the TrueNAP :D
Tim, I have been spending days trying to get something to work and have not seen a video of website that shows how. I have the latest version of everything. On my Proxmox host, I created a VM and installed TrueNAS Scale. I did iSCSI mounts for my hardrives into the VM and created a bridge for a dedicate NIC and passed it into the VM with out an IP. I set the IP in the TrueNAS server, like what you do with PFSense. I created my pools, datasets, users, and shares in TrueNAS and I can mount and access the SMB shares on Windows and the Linux shares in Linux VM's. I can mount the NFS shares on my Proxmox host at the commandline or with the Proxmox GUI but I cannot access anything on the mounts. The commandline and GUI freeze up when any attempt to use the mount points. This only occurs with my Proxmox hosts and trying to mount and use a NFS shre in a TrueNAS Scale VM. No firewall in place. I would really appreciate a video walking through the config and use of TrueNAS Scale NFS shares and Proxmox. All the TrueNAS Core videos don't line up with what TrueNAS Scale interfaces allow. Thanks in advance and I hope this is an video you could do and publish quickly.
For me I like having everything in one place and simple. With truenas scale I get that with the apps. I would like to see docker compose implemented more in the future mostly for my traefik app
You should check out kompose - it's a tool that helps you transition from docker-compose to native kube, then you can integrate with helm or kustomize if you want (or not). Should make trying our truenas scale super easy.
Once again nice video - I find the restriction of the ports above 9000 really annoying - there are several services which simply require other ports (Adguard, 53, gerbera UPNP etc.) As per TrueCharts they are doing a good job of getting new stuff, however most of the containers do not work for me out of the box. So not too sure what to think of scale, I was first very hyped, but there is room to improve ;-)
Ix could certainly make it easier to discover the TrueCharts repo. I spent ages battling docker images from the docker hub before I discovered TrueCharts. If you want to use things like docker-compose, I'm thinking the way to do it is to put in some high-speed networking and run iscsi to a separate application host. PCIE gen3 10/25/40G nics are pretty cheap, so an old xeon / x79 workstation should be fine and you can back-to-back them if you don't want to use a switch.
This almost reminds me of old school Rancher. Back from your old Minecraft server video. And parts of it remind me of the "app store" type section of Portainer. -Shane
It would be really cool to be able to set this up on a decently powerful system and then take my current raspberry pie cluster and make all of the notes on that cluster work are nodes on this cluster. Absolute POWAH!!!
Oh. my. god. This is awesome! I bellieve that to show CLI is better than not to show. Personally i am trying to learn some devops, so in-depth tips are very interesting for me. But definately there are subscribers who want configure things with mouse. so maybe it is better to show some hardore cli in the end of the video or in the other video (like David Bombal - he created separate channel for cool hardcore stuff)
Great examples, Tim. I'm new to K3 and trying to learn but still having a hard time understanding how it all works. One thing I wish was easier was being able to NAT to a different IP address for each APP. I don't like having to use my TrueNAS IP as the default for everything. I haven't seen an option in any App that I've played with but I'm sure I'm just doing it wrong or missing something but it's not clear to me how to do this. Anyway, thanks again... Love the show. :)
Thank you! I think this is where MetalLB comes in. It’s a software load balancer that can be bound to another IP and can route traffic to that app. I use it quite a bit in k3s but not on TrueNAS SCALE yet
could you run portianer on it, or would that be complicating things? I just like making a whole docker-compose setup and deploy it. Guess you could still use commands to run it. But visualising with containers are running looks a bit unorganised on truenasscale still. Looking forward though to switch ( omv -> scale).
I'm running Scale RC1 and the options are completely different. Most confusing is that I can't set a port for pihole < 8000 (I think), so I can't set its port to 53, as it is by default in this example, and as EVERYTHING is going to expect a DNS service to be. I'm guessing that I'll need to forward it as I would for any other docker container, but I don't see where that can be done. So far, not a big fan of scale. Edit: I was working with the Official App. The TrueCharts version is more like what you see here, and MUCH easier to get working. Now: to figure out if I can expose USB devices to the containers for my HomeAssistant dongles and such.
Hey Tim! Thanks for all the detailed videos! I'm new to TrueNAS, and I'm currently using it for containers. I need to specify an IP for each container, I attempted to create a bridge but I'm unsure how to assign it to the Docker container?
tech genius!!!.......... question: I have a Chinese (nothing against them) IP camera that uses a proprietary android app. Any idea how i can run that app in a TrueNas Jail? The camera likes to tunnel signals back to a strange IP when it is connected to the internet. Thanks.
What if you don't have the Apps tab on the left? Upgraded from FreeNAS where I did not have it and figured it would be there after the upgrade, but nothing....
Techno tim, cam you make tutorial about installing the new rancher version?, (it's kinda broken), I've tried to install older version rancher, but it didn't work
I recently migrated my test TrueNAS Core server from running docker inside a linux/VM and using portainer stacks / docker-compose to spin up apps to TrueNAS Scale. I used Lawrence Systems migration guide, which worked flawlessly (once I was able to coerce the server into booting from a USB drive). With my old VM setup, I really liked having the configuration in a text file that I can backup or install on a different server with little fuss. In TrueNAS Scale, how do you backup / save the app configurations for safe keeping, version control or deployment across servers?
Because I already have a dataset and I don't see any point of creating a dataset with the same attributes over and over. If you create folders inside of your existing dataset you get those applied automatically!
I always like to separate compute and data. So running anything except NAS software on a nas is a big no-no for me. Not to say that this isn't a good feature. I know plenty of people that would love something like this. For very simple deployments, it's probably more than enough for most people.
I think the aim of scale is to be more of a hyperconverged solution. That's the more modern way to run a server infrastructure, as long as you have enough machines to provide proper HA.
I did find minor flaw. When I installed TrueNAS SCALE 22.02.2.1 played with it then up graded to 22.02.2.2 later. When I rebooted it reverted to 22.02.2.1 and messed a few things up, I had to go to system boot to manually change which version to boot to. My Samb was gone, and the icons for Truecharts were gone as well.
Awesome video. Quick question in the Pihole instance you created where exactly would you find the IP address of the dns to route devices to the pihole? Was it @ 4:06? I set up a pihole instance and for the life of me I can’t figure out what the address is so I could forward traffic to it.
Hey Tim, Could you do a video on how to Deploy Apps that have dependencies? What I mean is like if I wanted to deploy Wordpress and present it with SSL like Let's Encrypt. How would that be configured / deployed? Sorry, I know it's a dumb question however, I am real new to this type of technology and could use the info/help.
Somehow, the Nextcloud docker image just doesn't work for me... after installing the image, it gives a log in screen but doesn't allow me to go beyond after entering the name/pw set during the installation process. Sigh... Scale looks great but maybe I should roll back to Core.
I installed Homebridge and it's running fine. But everytime I need to restart the container I have to reapply my config, and sometimes plugin's. How can I make it keep my config an d plugin's ??
I recall ix was pretentious about having vm support in freenas and removed it. Of course, as much as I want to like the idea, I’m with you if I can’t use kubectl directly. Although could be a step up from using just docker compose for long running projects. I have a huge R710 with 128GB ram, vanilla centos, k3s and metalLB to route53. I have an HBA I could prob do ZFS, but I recall BSD’s ZFS has better features? Even so, like I said as much as I want to love the idea of a out of the box zfs based K8S it always is limiting.
Thanks for an amazing detailed instruction video. I did got an error when I followed your instruction and installing Plex (the very first app I installed). I keep getting the message"[EFAULT] Kubernetes service is not running." I searched online and could not find any solution to my problem. Can you please help ?
This will be the reason truenas scale wont go for any serious mission critical environment 🤨. Imagine running kube and pihole on top of it on enterprise storage sever… but this will be super-good for homelab
I just found one BIG difference between Truecharts and the official Apps, the ability to add certificates to the app. Compare Next cloud as it is in both and you will see. Not saying it can not be done, but it is more difficult. I hope they change this.
Couldn’t really install apps because of kubernetes cluster couldn’t be started and can’t see intel igpu (HD 630) so after booting truNAS I saw nothing directly connected after a few cli lines go by so I assume maybe it’s a driver thing. Edit: apparently needed to restart the device after connecting to internet for it to see gpu and also setup and now can do apps. Now just trying to get nextcloud setup.
This means that you maybe should not create an environment to run Docker and Kubernetes, and just go to TrueNAS and make this like a centralized environment? What are the pros and cons that you can see so far?
thx, this finaly helped me to configure the image in Truenas Scale and start the docker image with the correct config. Now I have my own Valheim Server at home. All other written and video explanation did not help. Maybe you can make a proper video about how to setup and configure Machinaris. I struggle to implement a config for plotting
Hmmmm... Install TrueNAS or just build my own K8s cluster? After watching this, I'll just put a TrueNAS install on a purpose-built storage server and run my k8s cluster separately. Thanks for the info. (I use k8s every day, so not having kubectl, helm, etc., is a big deal.)
With TrueNAS on a small lab to test applications and develop applications could be a good option instead of intalling a PRoxmox VM right? sounds like an easy way to get K8s and Docker
omg I'm bit confused now. What happened to Ttuenas core. is there a list somewhere that shows the difference. Or should i just switch now if this the move forward
I might have read somewhere that they think BSD is getting less popularity as a standard platform. Regardless, If we all stuck with using linux and keeping it opensource , things will progress faster than splitting resources to two OSes.
Can You Make A Video On Using Laptop (Old Laptop Laying Around) As A Server By Installing Type 1 Hypervisor ( Proxmox eSXI or TrueNAS Whichever Works )
I'm really hoping they will allow usage of real Kubernetes commands. I want to be able to use Terraform to orchestrate Kubernetes for infrastructure as code ... otherwise this is not an enterprise solution.
Very informative. Made the switch from FreeNAS 11.2 to TrueNAS Scale, so I could add JellyFin on my NAS. I'm also trying to install Zoneminder on it as-well (previously, I had it running inside a Jail). Performance wise, is it better for these apps to remain as separate docker images, or would I be better off making a Linux VM?
do you recommend using the same pool for app config data as the one the apps are hosted on? Is there any problem with using a separate pools for the app config?
Anyone know of a LAMP (or just AMP) chart for TrueNAS Scale? All I want is a web server with PHP support, with the root path in my pool so I can edit files easily etc and create my own index and basically host my own site. I don't need anything complicated, no DBs needed etc, just a static php page with my own code stuff
2:44 "right here this will be in the documentation" so you quote said in the documentation I read all of your documentation where is it.. I don't see the repository like you claimed is there... If you can please correct me on what I missed... I read you I read you full description in your video its not there... I see a link to your site and it say's there is a link to it.. yet that link isn't it just to a random page.. Please if someone or you can please post me what I missed you show in the video.. Im looking for the actual link that you said is in the notes for the link
Does Scale do it's own kubernetes cluster? Or could I add it to another cluster and take advantage of that computer's computing power without using truenas' UI? I am not too familiar with kubernetes concepts here, but if not, I may need to virtualize truenas.
I guess I should have watched the end of the vid before I asked that question lol. I have a server that I am currently running baremetal truenas scale on, but I also want to use its power for a kubernetes cluster. Is virtualizing truenas probably the best way to go about that?
If you don't like the native Scale apps - couldn't you just make a Linux VM and use docker in it? Wouldn't that solve the networking / ports issues? And allow Compose and Portainer?
Iv been kicking around migrating to tru nas scale over unraid since I’m limited on drives eventually for my Plex media. Would you suggest a setup like this for a big Plex library with big family accessing library?
1:30 where you mention new pods trying to spin up with same port listeners as old pods, and causing a snafu. that's not how k8s works, that port actually points to a service that forwards to your pod(s), which all have random ports. otherwise, you'd never be able to safely do zero-down-time deploys.
@@TechnoTim you use NodePorts in your service definition, not your Pod specification. pods all have network isolation too, so all my pods can come up listening on the same port, and no clashes. i mean, they wouldn't make this an option if one of the option choices was broken. and btw, i really get smarter with all your videos, thanks
@@TechnoTim i did… i eventually got a link for scale. And once i got scale there were 2 additional alls to get for operation. Promethius operatior and cloud native-pg
Are you running TrueNAS SCALE?
Yes but only as a NAS, TrueNAS Core does not allow my HDD's to spin down for some reason.
Have you looked into Truecommand? Perhaps soon there will be a way to manage containers from Truecommand.
@@89tsupra That's a setting you can change under Disks.
Have been since rc2, the apps part is still not 100% though... I used to switch off my server for the night and had it boot up automatically in the morning. In RC2 half of the times my apps did not show up or load, be it truecharts or truenas native apps. Sometimes my one docker container would run and that was it, other times the system could not find any applications or containers. most of the times I had to reinstall the Truenas app because it would remain stuck deploying. The error was hard to reproduce however so i never filed a bug report. Release is better but I still have the issue from time to time. Now I leave my system on 24/7.
Yes, I'm a day 1 beta tester :D
Yes! Man, your timing releasing this video is perfect. I just installed TrueNAS Scale last week. I'd been running FreeNAS for a few years. Like you, I am also hoping that eventually I can deploy applications remotely to the k3s cluster. Until then I think I will provision one or more VMs in TrueNAS Scale and then setup up kubernetes on them, probably k3s.
Great video, one note is in the beginning you had mentioned creating folders for each service you want to run on the system but it would be better to create datasets for each one for greater control over the data, such as the ability to do snapshots per dataset.
Thanks Tom! That's a really good point! I typically have one dataset for my apps and then let them inherit permissions from the parent but you are absolutely right!! Good to see you here!
When you come looking for the "experts", just to find out they are going worried about producing content, rather than getting it RIGHT!
Awesome video, Tim!
This video is a must for anyone new to TrueNAS SCALE or TrueCharts!
Cheers,
TrueNAS Team
Thank you and thanks for all the great open source products!
Great video TechnoTim! TrueNAS team, thanks for the great project, the official Pi-Hole chart does not expose the required ports and does not work as expected. Installed the version from TrueCharts and it is working.
Holy crap it’s official approval
Finally someone makes a video about this without just clicking "Next" and not talking about anything.
The only reason why I have a homelab is because I wanted to do pretty much exactly this and FreeNAS Corral was going to let me do it with a nice slick UI. In the time I was waiting or my hardware to come in, the Corral project got the axe. I'm thrilled to see this functionality make a return in Scale and improved by building building it with k3s.
You are very good at explaining Tim, thank you for this useful video. I just installed TrueNas Scale and discovering, virtualization and Container management.
Great video, so helpful. I was getting lost in the Kubernetes documentation but you explained a lot of the configuration options and how to launch/configure a custom "ad-hoc" docker image.
Great video Tim, I am new to TrueNAS Scale but to be honest I absolutely love it. I think after watching this video again I have figured it out. Thanks again Tim I appreciate you.
Awesome tutorial! Previously I had so much trouble getting a docker image to run, but I got it on the first try after warching this.
Nice work!
After catching the end of your vid, I tried playing with adding an nfs share via manifests using portainer and so far so good. Will be validating between a few servers instances, but been struggling with this for a bit and this video and a walkthrough I bookmarked a year ago finally got me going.
I am seriously tempted to test out TrueNAS-Scale, but I fear that it is not as mature as it would like to be. A lot of issues with upgrading according to the latest stable release posted on the forum. It is very interesting though, to utilize such a beast, have been looking for something like this for a while. Currently I'm using Portainer and Docker on KVM servers, which is simple and stable. Portainer is moving along nicely. What I am researching right now is edge tech, to be able to administrate devices on the edge through e.g. Portainer. I will follow TrueNAS-Scale and see if it matures up and become as stable as I would want. I will test TrueNAS on Proxmox today. Thank you for your video.
Update: TrueNAS Scale is now running on my Proxmox and it is cool. The update issues are just cosmetic, will be fixed in the next release. So far so good. Will try to port my Dockers to this install and see how it goes. Now to the testing.
Update2: TrueNAS-Scale is cool, though I need a better CPU in order to be satisfied with the performance. I knew that, but it was worth it. Next step is to upgrade my server to something bigger, meanwhile I return to the lightweight Docker install with Portainer as my UI. I like TrueNAS-Scale and it will become a major actor on my network in the future.
Are you still using Truenas scale? I plan on switching to either Truenas or Unraid from Synology but am worried about truenas not being super mature and running into issues
@@DlxyRekt For Docker I still use Portainer and it is very stable. For NAS I am no longer on Scale, I keep it simple and pure. I have no long-term data on Scale as my needs are different now. I might test Scale again later on to see if it has matured.
Hey, thanks for stepping through the options Tim! I like scale because its linux based and its a great compliment to proxmox.
Also, I hope you can do a video on running Scale VMs and the VM networking. I tried following forum posts and guide, but no working results.
This is wonderful, thank you for continuing to make great focused content!
Thanks for the detailed explanation. It all looked a bit daunting when I took a look at it. I was given a QNAP and because of all the vulnerability with QNAPs, I installed TrueNas Scale on it. I'm just using it to backup my Synology NAS, which is where I deploy my docker apps, but I'm keen to put some on the TrueNAP :D
Tim, I have been spending days trying to get something to work and have not seen a video of website that shows how. I have the latest version of everything. On my Proxmox host, I created a VM and installed TrueNAS Scale. I did iSCSI mounts for my hardrives into the VM and created a bridge for a dedicate NIC and passed it into the VM with out an IP. I set the IP in the TrueNAS server, like what you do with PFSense. I created my pools, datasets, users, and shares in TrueNAS and I can mount and access the SMB shares on Windows and the Linux shares in Linux VM's. I can mount the NFS shares on my Proxmox host at the commandline or with the Proxmox GUI but I cannot access anything on the mounts. The commandline and GUI freeze up when any attempt to use the mount points. This only occurs with my Proxmox hosts and trying to mount and use a NFS shre in a TrueNAS Scale VM. No firewall in place. I would really appreciate a video walking through the config and use of TrueNAS Scale NFS shares and Proxmox. All the TrueNAS Core videos don't line up with what TrueNAS Scale interfaces allow. Thanks in advance and I hope this is an video you could do and publish quickly.
For me I like having everything in one place and simple. With truenas scale I get that with the apps. I would like to see docker compose implemented more in the future mostly for my traefik app
The only way compose would ever work is if they separated docker from the kubernetes runtime.
@@TechnoTim Yes, and that would be awesome. Freedom to use whatever serves you better. Great vid by the way! Thank you.
You should check out kompose - it's a tool that helps you transition from docker-compose to native kube, then you can integrate with helm or kustomize if you want (or not). Should make trying our truenas scale super easy.
@@TechnoTim ☝️
Once again nice video - I find the restriction of the ports above 9000 really annoying - there are several services which simply require other ports (Adguard, 53, gerbera UPNP etc.) As per TrueCharts they are doing a good job of getting new stuff, however most of the containers do not work for me out of the box. So not too sure what to think of scale, I was first very hyped, but there is room to improve ;-)
Yeah this is where software load balancers are going to play a role. Not ideal but a side effect of kubernetes networking
Ix could certainly make it easier to discover the TrueCharts repo. I spent ages battling docker images from the docker hub before I discovered TrueCharts. If you want to use things like docker-compose, I'm thinking the way to do it is to put in some high-speed networking and run iscsi to a separate application host. PCIE gen3 10/25/40G nics are pretty cheap, so an old xeon / x79 workstation should be fine and you can back-to-back them if you don't want to use a switch.
I love the hand gesture to demonstrate "caching" at 13:18 😆
10/10 video, subscribed instantly. :) Perfect tempo/pace in video.
This almost reminds me of old school Rancher. Back from your old Minecraft server video. And parts of it remind me of the "app store" type section of Portainer.
-Shane
Also to note, most applications especially ones like pihole that write to a local DISK db can not be multi-instance so HPA wouldn't work.
It would be really cool to be able to set this up on a decently powerful system and then take my current raspberry pie cluster and make all of the notes on that cluster work are nodes on this cluster. Absolute POWAH!!!
Got the perfect case coming in for a TrueNAS Scale build. Seeing this was an arm twister! … now I need drives XD
Oh. my. god. This is awesome! I bellieve that to show CLI is better than not to show. Personally i am trying to learn some devops, so in-depth tips are very interesting for me. But definately there are subscribers who want configure things with mouse. so maybe it is better to show some hardore cli in the end of the video or in the other video (like David Bombal - he created separate channel for cool hardcore stuff)
Great examples, Tim. I'm new to K3 and trying to learn but still having a hard time understanding how it all works. One thing I wish was easier was being able to NAT to a different IP address for each APP. I don't like having to use my TrueNAS IP as the default for everything. I haven't seen an option in any App that I've played with but I'm sure I'm just doing it wrong or missing something but it's not clear to me how to do this. Anyway, thanks again... Love the show. :)
Thank you! I think this is where MetalLB comes in. It’s a software load balancer that can be bound to another IP and can route traffic to that app. I use it quite a bit in k3s but not on TrueNAS SCALE yet
Thank you very much. You gave me just the information I needed to know I don't want TrueNAS.
Fair enough!
could you run portianer on it, or would that be complicating things? I just like making a whole docker-compose setup and deploy it. Guess you could still use commands to run it. But visualising with containers are running looks a bit unorganised on truenasscale still. Looking forward though to switch ( omv -> scale).
Now with truechats are gone. What are the alternatives?
Man I'm rebuilding my filesystem and docker after a failed HD. I'm trying to decide if i want to stick with OMV or move to TrueNas.
I'm running Scale RC1 and the options are completely different. Most confusing is that I can't set a port for pihole < 8000 (I think), so I can't set its port to 53, as it is by default in this example, and as EVERYTHING is going to expect a DNS service to be. I'm guessing that I'll need to forward it as I would for any other docker container, but I don't see where that can be done. So far, not a big fan of scale.
Edit: I was working with the Official App. The TrueCharts version is more like what you see here, and MUCH easier to get working.
Now: to figure out if I can expose USB devices to the containers for my HomeAssistant dongles and such.
Its great and all to see that they are using an orchestration tool like k3s but damn... I REALLY hope no one runs production workloads on that 😅
Hey Tim! Thanks for all the detailed videos! I'm new to TrueNAS, and I'm currently using it for containers. I need to specify an IP for each container, I attempted to create a bridge but I'm unsure how to assign it to the Docker container?
In the shell, it says Permission denied for mkdir command, any ideas?
tech genius!!!.......... question: I have a Chinese (nothing against them) IP camera that uses a proprietary android app. Any idea how i can run that app in a TrueNas Jail? The camera likes to tunnel signals back to a strange IP when it is connected to the internet. Thanks.
What if you don't have the Apps tab on the left? Upgraded from FreeNAS where I did not have it and figured it would be there after the upgrade, but nothing....
You able to look into my head? Again a thing I wanted to learn haha!
Techno tim, cam you make tutorial about installing the new rancher version?, (it's kinda broken), I've tried to install older version rancher, but it didn't work
Thanks for the demo and info, have a great day
Good stuff Tim.. Thnx for creating good content.. Testing out Scale in a VM now..first :-)
I recently migrated my test TrueNAS Core server from running docker inside a linux/VM and using portainer stacks / docker-compose to spin up apps to TrueNAS Scale. I used Lawrence Systems migration guide, which worked flawlessly (once I was able to coerce the server into booting from a USB drive).
With my old VM setup, I really liked having the configuration in a text file that I can backup or install on a different server with little fuss.
In TrueNAS Scale, how do you backup / save the app configurations for safe keeping, version control or deployment across servers?
I must have missed something. Why did you create a directory for each application rather than a dataset?
Because I already have a dataset and I don't see any point of creating a dataset with the same attributes over and over. If you create folders inside of your existing dataset you get those applied automatically!
I always like to separate compute and data. So running anything except NAS software on a nas is a big no-no for me.
Not to say that this isn't a good feature. I know plenty of people that would love something like this. For very simple deployments, it's probably more than enough for most people.
I think the aim of scale is to be more of a hyperconverged solution. That's the more modern way to run a server infrastructure, as long as you have enough machines to provide proper HA.
Nice tools , I also love captain duck duck (Caprover)
Cool 👍
I was following along and quite happy until you called the Kebab menu a Hotdog menu.. :-P Thank you for the walkthrough.
I did find minor flaw. When I installed TrueNAS SCALE 22.02.2.1 played with it then up graded to 22.02.2.2 later. When I rebooted it reverted to 22.02.2.1 and messed a few things up, I had to go to system boot to manually change which version to boot to. My Samb was gone, and the icons for Truecharts were gone as well.
Awesome video. Quick question in the Pihole instance you created where exactly would you find the IP address of the dns to route devices to the pihole? Was it @ 4:06? I set up a pihole instance and for the life of me I can’t figure out what the address is so I could forward traffic to it.
i hope you do more scale videos
Thank you tech Pedro Pascal 🙏
Thank you! How to run portainer over kuber cluster? I don't understand how to setup a portainer to get kub properties.
Good video. Thanks
Glad you liked it!
Hey Tim, Could you do a video on how to Deploy Apps that have dependencies? What I mean is like if I wanted to deploy Wordpress and present it with SSL like Let's Encrypt. How would that be configured / deployed? Sorry, I know it's a dumb question however, I am real new to this type of technology and could use the info/help.
Somehow, the Nextcloud docker image just doesn't work for me... after installing the image, it gives a log in screen but doesn't allow me to go beyond after entering the name/pw set during the installation process. Sigh... Scale looks great but maybe I should roll back to Core.
I installed Homebridge and it's running fine. But everytime I need to restart the container I have to reapply my config, and sometimes plugin's. How can I make it keep my config an d plugin's ??
I recall ix was pretentious about having vm support in freenas and removed it. Of course, as much as I want to like the idea, I’m with you if I can’t use kubectl directly. Although could be a step up from using just docker compose for long running projects. I have a huge R710 with 128GB ram, vanilla centos, k3s and metalLB to route53. I have an HBA I could prob do ZFS, but I recall BSD’s ZFS has better features? Even so, like I said as much as I want to love the idea of a out of the box zfs based K8S it always is limiting.
How do I get the list of apps? I have nothing to even choose.
Great Video! I am trying to install scrypted on docker on truenas scale, but running into some trouble! Any advice is greatly appreciated.
Thanks for an amazing detailed instruction video. I did got an error when I followed your instruction and installing Plex (the very first app I installed). I keep getting the message"[EFAULT] Kubernetes service is not running." I searched online and could not find any solution to my problem. Can you please help ?
12:00 The Hot Dog Menu? That reminds me, it's lunch time!
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This will be the reason truenas scale wont go for any serious mission critical environment 🤨. Imagine running kube and pihole on top of it on enterprise storage sever… but this will be super-good for homelab
I just found one BIG difference between Truecharts and the official Apps, the ability to add certificates to the app. Compare Next cloud as it is in both and you will see. Not saying it can not be done, but it is more difficult. I hope they change this.
Hello, How would I determine how to ping the NTP server? Using telnet how do I know what ip address to use? Thanks! Great video
Thank you for posting this. I am wondering though. In your opinion do you think TN Scale is ready to go toe to toe with Proxmox?
You are welcome!
How do you get rclone to work?
Really helpful demo.
Have you found a way to add labels to any of the containers?
Couldn’t really install apps because of kubernetes cluster couldn’t be started and can’t see intel igpu (HD 630) so after booting truNAS I saw nothing directly connected after a few cli lines go by so I assume maybe it’s a driver thing.
Edit: apparently needed to restart the device after connecting to internet for it to see gpu and also setup and now can do apps. Now just trying to get nextcloud setup.
have you done VLans for docker, or Kubernetes on Truenas Scale, i cant get it working
The "Advanced Settings Explained" part of the video, doesn't explain anything.
This means that you maybe should not create an environment to run Docker and Kubernetes, and just go to TrueNAS and make this like a centralized environment? What are the pros and cons that you can see so far?
That's in this video :)
thx, this finaly helped me to configure the image in Truenas Scale and start the docker image with the correct config. Now I have my own Valheim Server at home. All other written and video explanation did not help. Maybe you can make a proper video about how to setup and configure Machinaris. I struggle to implement a config for plotting
Hmmmm... Install TrueNAS or just build my own K8s cluster? After watching this, I'll just put a TrueNAS install on a purpose-built storage server and run my k8s cluster separately. Thanks for the info. (I use k8s every day, so not having kubectl, helm, etc., is a big deal.)
I am thinking why i can set port to 80 to custom docker images...
With TrueNAS on a small lab to test applications and develop applications could be a good option instead of intalling a PRoxmox VM right? sounds like an easy way to get K8s and Docker
Yeah for sure, easier to test if you want all your apps running on your NAS!
maybe im going to migrate some day to scale. Unfortunatly Jellifin does not run under FreeBSD thats probably the best reason for me to switch.
We need now to have Scale on grafana!!
Agreed!
could i docker login on truenas scale? for a app that need it to run.
Please how to install cyberpanel on docker image, thanks
You’d actually want to create datasets instead of mkdir 😬
Not if you already have one :) No point of creating the same dataset over and over with the same attributes :)
@@TechnoTim yeah but it makes sense per application as you can the nsnapshot, replicate and set quotas for those different apps/datasets
omg I'm bit confused now. What happened to Ttuenas core. is there a list somewhere that shows the difference. Or should i just switch now if this the move forward
Core is still being developed it's freebsd based... Scale is debian based and will eventually support clustering and high availability
I might have read somewhere that they think BSD is getting less popularity as a standard platform. Regardless, If we all stuck with using linux and keeping it opensource , things will progress faster than splitting resources to two OSes.
do you prefer truenas or rancher for pods?
Can You Make A Video On Using Laptop (Old Laptop Laying Around) As A Server By Installing Type 1 Hypervisor ( Proxmox eSXI or TrueNAS Whichever Works )
I'm really hoping they will allow usage of real Kubernetes commands. I want to be able to use Terraform to orchestrate Kubernetes for infrastructure as code ... otherwise this is not an enterprise solution.
very neat. Thanks
Thanks for watching!
Can you make a video on installing minecraft-java? I am having a issue getting it deploying
Very informative.
Made the switch from FreeNAS 11.2 to TrueNAS Scale, so I could add JellyFin on my NAS.
I'm also trying to install Zoneminder on it as-well (previously, I had it running inside a Jail).
Performance wise, is it better for these apps to remain as separate docker images, or would I be better off making a Linux VM?
Thanks! Performance difference is negligible, it’s more about how you want to manage your containers 😀
In Truenas Core, we use jails to spin up apps and custom stuff like a Turnserver and what not, how does this concept work in Truenas Scale?
You'd find the docker version of that service and spin it up!
do you recommend using the same pool for app config data as the one the apps are hosted on? Is there any problem with using a separate pools for the app config?
just depends if you want to back them up separately. I would put them on the same unless you have a reason not to.
Hey how about a plex apps install with external acess , and maybe trow a nvidia transcoding gpu in there :)
Anyone know of a LAMP (or just AMP) chart for TrueNAS Scale? All I want is a web server with PHP support, with the root path in my pool so I can edit files easily etc and create my own index and basically host my own site. I don't need anything complicated, no DBs needed etc, just a static php page with my own code stuff
2:44 "right here this will be in the documentation" so you quote said in the documentation I read all of your documentation where is it.. I don't see the repository like you claimed is there... If you can please correct me on what I missed... I read you I read you full description in your video its not there... I see a link to your site and it say's there is a link to it.. yet that link isn't it just to a random page.. Please if someone or you can please post me what I missed you show in the video.. Im looking for the actual link that you said is in the notes for the link
its not in the desperation, not in the link on your site, so where is it???
Looks very interesting! Sorry for the noob question, but how is this different from Portainer from some videos ago?
This is actually a NAS, but now you can run Docker container directly on it.
Does Scale do it's own kubernetes cluster? Or could I add it to another cluster and take advantage of that computer's computing power without using truenas' UI? I am not too familiar with kubernetes concepts here, but if not, I may need to virtualize truenas.
I guess I should have watched the end of the vid before I asked that question lol. I have a server that I am currently running baremetal truenas scale on, but I also want to use its power for a kubernetes cluster. Is virtualizing truenas probably the best way to go about that?
can TrueNAS also works as print server?
If you don't like the native Scale apps - couldn't you just make a Linux VM and use docker in it? Wouldn't that solve the networking / ports issues? And allow Compose and Portainer?
You certainly can. Once you have a vm you can do anything!
Iv been kicking around migrating to tru nas scale over unraid since I’m limited on drives eventually for my Plex media. Would you suggest a setup like this for a big Plex library with big family accessing library?
If you want an all in one NAS, yes 😀
What do you mean by 'limited on drives" ? Is that a unraid issue?
Johnny Depp doing tech guides now?
1:30 where you mention new pods trying to spin up with same port listeners as old pods, and causing a snafu. that's not how k8s works, that port actually points to a service that forwards to your pod(s), which all have random ports. otherwise, you'd never be able to safely do zero-down-time deploys.
Sure unless you use node ports
@@TechnoTim you use NodePorts in your service definition, not your Pod specification. pods all have network isolation too, so all my pods can come up listening on the same port, and no clashes. i mean, they wouldn't make this an option if one of the option choices was broken. and btw, i really get smarter with all your videos, thanks
i currently have nothing in my applications even with original install and i have no idea how to get past that.
Did you configure the additional apps like I did?
@@TechnoTim i did… i eventually got a link for scale. And once i got scale there were 2 additional alls to get for operation. Promethius operatior and cloud native-pg
Anyone know how to install pterodactyl on truenas scale?