nextcloud VS docker

https://github.com/ReinerNippes/nextcloud if you want an Ansible playbook.

Not sure about relying in Cloudron alone. Maybe there defaults are okay, but with some manual tuning you might be able to disable features of NC that you don't use and sonyou could reduce the target surfacs. I'm just a hobbyist but still went the manual way for my public home server. Sadly the tutorials of Carsten Rieger are written in German. But there are also other alternatives like Ansible playbooks (https://github.com/ReinerNippes/nextcloud) or similar for a user friendly NC install. Maybe something from this section is also of interest for you: https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted#self-hosting-solutions

https://github.com/ReinerNippes/nextcloud Best non docker and painless thing you can do. Up and running in 20 minutes.

If you want to go in the rabbithole (specially docker and let's encrypted), you should check out the ansible script from Reiner Nippes: https://github.com/ReinerNippes/nextcloud

Personally I have a lot of experience with Ansible so used https://github.com/ReinerNippes/nextcloud which includes PostgreSQL and Redis with Nginx secured by LetsEncrypt. Backups can also be automated via Restic and sent offsite with Rclone.

Am I better off using this container: https://hub.docker.com/_/nextcloud/

It looks like I'm not the only person who has faced this. apache-based images require buster, for instance, and some docker images that rely on Ruby face issues too (for example, I decided to try setting up Postal but it looks like it's facing the same issues).

If you look at the info on https://hub.docker.com/_/nextcloud, you'll see that you aught to be specifying at least one volume, so that you have the data you want to not disappear on restart, and can access config files.

Yes, and this is what L passed through as the env variables in the docker compose file, as the docs state: https://hub.docker.com/_/nextcloud

You can't map binaries from host to container like this. What you need is a custom Dockerfile that installs ffmpeg. https://github.com/nextcloud/docker/blob/master/.examples/dockerfiles/full/fpm/Dockerfile

A good example to start with is at https://github.com/nextcloud/docker/tree/master/.examples/docker-compose/insecure/postgres/apache

Nextcloud is free and open source. The easiest way to install it is via docker containers. nextcloud docker