Tyler Perkins
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title: "Filebrowser Sidecar"
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date: 2023-12-18T19:02:43-05:00
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draft: false
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So [last time](https://www.clortox.com/posts/kubernetes-at-home/) I talked about my
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home k3s cluster. I still have been non stop tinkering with the thing, and its a blast.
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I really enjoy tinkering with it, hosting my own apps for myself and my friends/family,
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and just getting to learn more about the high availability hosting stuff.
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With that said, there are definitely growing pains compared to just a straight docker setup.
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With more moving parts, theres only more stuff to break, and it breaks kinda often.
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Part of it is me not knowing the best practices, and trying to pick it up as I go. And
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another large part is the older hardware I use. However the greatest pain is storage.
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I use [longhorn](https://longhorn.io) for sharded storage in the cluster, each machine
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has 2TB of memory to contribute, which for a small database and some config files is
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more than enough. However, what do I do when I want to edit some files in a volume directly?
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Or just look at them to satiate my own curiosity?
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So my journey began with using [filebrowser](https://filebrowser.org) as a simple sidecar, which worked for quickly testing stuff. But I wanted something a bit more permament, and something that did not default to very insure credentials. It also needed to not rely on some local files for credentials, I didn't want to make a whole pvc volume just for a sqlite database of a few kilobytes.
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My response to all of this is a [custom filebrowser extension](https://git.clortox.com/Infrastructure/Filebrowser)! This container
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uses environment variables to configure the container every time it is built, so that you don't need any configuration!
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This solves all the issues I had with it prior, and makes it a much more friendly solution for my personal usecase.
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I have more instructions at the actual git repository linked above, but I'll include some of the environment variables that can be
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configured below incase you are curious.
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| Variable | Description | Default |
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| `ADMIN_PASS` | `admin` user password | `admin` |
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| `DEFAULT_USERNAME`| The username for the newly created user | `default` |
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| `DEFAULT_PASSWORD`| The password for the newly created user | `default` |
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| `BRANDING_NAME` | Name shown on the home screen | `My file storage`|
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| `AUTH_METHOD` | What [auth method](https://filebrowser.org/configuration/authentication-method) should be used? | `json` |
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| `AUTH_HEADER` | What header should be used for [proxy authentication](https://filebrowser.org/configuration/authentication-method#proxy-header)? | `X-My-Header` |
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| `PERM_ADMIN` | Allow user admin privileges | `false` |
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| `PERM_EXECUTE` | Allow user to execute commands | `false` |
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| `PERM_CREATE` | Allow user to create files and directories | `false` |
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| `PERM_RENAME` | Allow user to rename files and directories | `false` |
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| `PERM_MODIFY` | Allow user to modify files | `false` |
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| `PERM_DELETE` | Allow user to delete files | `false` |
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| `PERM_SHARE` | Allow user to share files and directories | `false` |
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| `PERM_DOWNLOAD` | Allow user to download files | `false` |
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If you have any feature requests or issues with it, feel free to open an issue either on [gitea](https://git.clortox.com/Infrastructure/Filebrowser)
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or [github](https://github.com/Clortox/Filebrowser).
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