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Synapse: Matrix homeserver written in Python/Twisted.
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Official plugin/app for truenas core/scale #11384

Closed pszypowicz closed 2 years ago

pszypowicz commented 2 years ago

Description: It would be beneficial for Synapse to be available as an official plugin/app on TrueNAS platform.

As an example, Nextcloud recently announced official support for TrueNAS for both Core and Scale products. https://www.ixsystems.com/blog/nextcloud-and-truenas-collaborate-to-help-you-build-your-own-private-cloud/

What is interesting, it's a free option up to 100 users, and then become a paid model:

The Nextcloud plugin is free for up to 100 users and directly available for download within TrueNAS. Small businesses and extended families can set up their own private clouds in just a few clicks. For larger schools and organizations with more than 100 users, an Enterprise support option is available starting at $8/month per user with no limits on the storage capacity or compute power per user. With the use of TrueNAS HA systems, these organizations will be able to build high-reliability solutions. TrueCommand can be used to manage distributed infrastructure deployments

Synapse does not have at the moment any officially supported way to have a "on premise" installation which is plugin based (that I'm aware of), there are only option for "cloud" managed deployments. But those 2 scenarios appease 2 different user bases and I think it could be a great starting point for corporations and small business for matrix/synapse.

DMRobertson commented 2 years ago

Synapse does not have at the moment any officially supported way to have a "on premise" installation which is plugin based (that I'm aware of) there are only option for "cloud" managed deployments.

I'm not sure what you mean by "plugin" here. A plugin specific to TrueNAS? I think we'd accept such a thing, but it might be better placed as an external project rather than part of Synapse itself.

It's also worth mentioning this page on matrix.org, which mentions https://github.com/YunoHost-Apps/synapse_ynh and https://git.cloudron.io/cloudron/synapse-app which I both think facilitate plugin-like self-hosting?

pszypowicz commented 2 years ago

Thanks for linking the yuno-host and cloudron as they seem to be a good starters.

I'm rather thinking of so sort of maintained/blessed by vector option for self host (something like EMS or 'Element one', but on-premise). But you are right, the question is if this is a good place to ask for something like this.

clokep commented 2 years ago

Official PyPI packages, Debian packages, and Docker images are provided. Any of those can be used to self-host. We leave other formats to downstream packagers who might wish to re-package Synapse. Unfortunately maintaining different packaging formats is extremely time consuming and the Synapse team is unable to support additional formats at this time!

It would be nice to have a comprehensive list of packages somewhere, but I'm not sure one exists. If there are questions on how to re-package Synapse I'd invite joining #synapse-dev:matrix.org to discuss with us.