saltydk
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2 years ago Greetings 👋
Saltbox started out as a branch in Cloudbox while I was maintaining Cloudbox for about a year and a half so there is a massive carryover from the develop branch of Cloudbox of which I initially based my Traefik branch on. Main reason it became its own project was due to Cloudbox project owners not feeling comfortable handing over the reins despite them more or less having become disinterested in maintaining their project.
Sadly I have not maintained a list of differences as the improvements have happened slowly over time as people request features or functionality changes and have been adding them when it made sense.
In terms of functionality the main gains so far is validated Ubuntu 20.04 support (and will try to support newer releases quicker than we did in Cloudbox) which is useful in terms of hardware acceleration support with newer CPUs. Support for IPv6 (has seen limited testing so far though) within the docker container network using NAT since we still want to keep things behind the reverse proxy.
There are various smaller improvements like being able to use a subdomain in the config file and Cloudflare management working properly whereas with Cloudbox you would have to disable Cloudflare and add the records manually to achieve the same outcome. Support for ZeroSSL (currently default one used) as there were some issues with Let's Encrypt recently.
While I of course have had chats with the previous Cloudbox developers I am not aware of their overall goals with the project as I took over when they were more or less disengaged already. I took what I felt like was the intent with Cloudbox develop (massively increased user flexibility without having to edit project files) and went with Traefik because it fit in snug with that goal.
Over time we do have goals of wanting to help new users along with automation tools for setting up new shared drives, service accounts and what not but that obviously isn't super helpful for someone considering the project right now. Our discord is linked in the readme if you want a chat about the project.
Hey there 👋 Love the work that's been going on with Saltbox!
I'm currently toying around with CloudBox and happened upon your project. It is clearly inspired by the work done on Cloudbox, but I've noticed a few clear differences:
Are there other big ones that users should be made aware of?
In addition to being more actively maintained, are there any high-level goals for the project that differ from that of Cloudbox, or should this project be viewed as a fork with the same goals as Cloudbox?