Anyone using CasaOS?
Anyone using CasaOS?
Curious if anyone is using CasaOS?
If so, what made you choose this over another?
Nope. Plain old Almalinux and deploy my services with ansible. I don’t see benefits in the bloatware that any UI on a server is (for me).
And I know I will get hat for this from a part of the community but that’s just my humble opinion.
1I use it as a landing page for most of my other apps. Its running on my Ubuntu server PC. I have Plex running baremetal. I am thinking about slowly moving smaller services Radarr, Sonarr, etc to the CasaOS docker containers.
1I tried it and once I got to the point where I needed documentation, there wasn't any so I went away from it.
1Nope. I have a Zima Board that I am actually doing some experimenting with right now and when I took it out of the box...I PXE booted Clonezilla and then installed Alpine...then Debian and I'm constantly PXE booting other things (WinPE, MS-DOS, RHEL 9, etc).
1I have been using for about 4 months or so. I like it over unraid which I was using since I dont have to use a flash drive to boot off of. I do miss the app store that unraid has but I know I can just a the docker template but I am lazy
1I used for a while. But does not supports docker-compose file with custom storage location. So stopped.
1Dont you just do custom install for the dockef compose and then you can change the volumes later in app settings?
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I've used it. More just so I had a "landing page" on my NAS and pretend what it would be like to have a web GUI on a NAS
It's OK. It doesn't handle RAID, ZFS, or anything other than just a MergerFS setup or single disks.
I like the built in file browser, as it offers SMB sharing with just a right click on a folder. Handy for those times where you just need a quick SMB share for a bit.
1i don't like the built in file browser. you can't drag and drop, no dark mode and you can't view properties.
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I thought about taking a look at it. Then I discovered the site is a single page of fluff and the documentation is nonexistent, so I didn't bother.
1exactly my thought. Plenty of shiny things but then you don't even have a good way to partition disks
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Cosmo-server is much better and more secure that CasaOS. Check it out
1CasaOS fanboy here, I've also been driving the new ZimaOS alpha. I've got to admit Cosmo-server looks pretty darn appealing.
1I haven't heard about Cosmo. I need to test it. Thanks for sharing.
1Damn, just finished setting up CasaOS. That looks neat. Gonna try it.
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I am using it for media server, Ubiquiti controller, torrents, sync and local http server.
Simply because it is a nice and simple front-end for Docker.
1I ended up using Cosmos Cloud instead, a little rougher around the edges, but love it
1Never heard of it but I’m using Debian/Ubuntu for some machines I have atm.
1casaos is pretty neat... had it on my system for like 2 weeks... but it doesn't respect your compose settings specifically when it comes to using macvlans with static IPs so most of my docker apps were sitting as "legacy apps" which just annoyed me... may give it a go again in the future, but I'm not sure exactly what it's purpose is other than being a docker gui
1I guess HomeOS doesn't sound great in comparison.
1I actually use MojoDojoCasaOS
1hi ken
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It really comes down to what you are trying to accomplish. I used it for a while also. It is very friendly and it provides many good features and apps to work with. Ultimately, I found it to be limiting, so I switched to Proxmox VE and just created several VMs and LXC Containers to use for various purposes including Docker.
1I'm using it right now with Armbian on a Rock Pi 4C with a 128GB NvME drive. Planning to move the external 8TB hdd from the main lab PC to this, and run all low power tasks 24x7, and fire up the main rig when needed using WoL. I liked the UI, and the simple install process. But now someone mentioned it, I'd like to try Cosmos.
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