Nextcloud

I’ve been thinking to upgrade my Nextcloud service also switching to another alternative rather than docker, hence I used podman and buildah in my solution. From the rockylinux.org I found a nice post where it describes how to build and provisioning by using buildah and podman, it works pretty good and I added a tool in order to run it faster, called taskfile. Requirements: Podman Buildah Taskfile Install taskfile Clone my project From the project you can see the task defined: version: "3" tasks: up-db: dir: "db/mariadb" preconditions: - test -f db-init.sh cmds: - bash db-init.sh create-app: dir: "app" preconditions: - test -f run.sh cmds: - mkdir nc nc/nextcloud nc/apps nc/config nc/data - task: up-db - bash run.sh build_base: dir: "db/base" preconditions: - test -f build.sh cmds: - bash build.sh build_tools: dir: "db/db-tools" preconditions: - test -f build.sh cmds: - bash build.sh build_maria: dir: "db/mariadb" preconditions: - test -f build.sh cmds: - bash build.sh build_db: cmds: - task: build_base - task: build_tools - task: build_maria up-app: cmds: - podman container start nextcloud Main task to build and run nextcloud: ...

For those who have been facing the “Maintenance mode active” after applied a nextcloud upgrade by switching container image version, due a major versioning issue. Even when you issue the occ upgrade into continer you gets hit by something like below: www-data@87401bdd2fa8:~/html$ php /var/www/html/occ upgrade Nextcloud or one of the apps require upgrade - only a limited number of commands are available You may use your browser or the occ upgrade command to do the upgrade Setting log level to debug Exception: Updates between multiple major versions and downgrades are unsupported. Update failed Maintenance mode is kept active Resetting log level Keep a eye on this part: Updates between multiple major versions and downgrades are unsupported. as I was running 25 version I can no jump for above 27, if that’s our case, we can edit the file app/config/config.php edit the version of your nextcloud like below: ...