Trunk: A Cloud for your Closet

There's more planned here, but you'll have to wait a bit for a demonstration.

Object Storage and docs have been the focus the last few weeks; now that the panel is in a stable spot, it's time to codify some of the decisions already made, and build atop what's there.

chest, the object service, already has accounts, ACLs, and virtual path mapping between accounts (sharing).

The problem with paid VPN services is there's no guarantee in a year they won't be logging your shit and quietly told you in an email at some point.

Mixing a home-based VPN with a cloud bastion host (something in-between) is a reliable bet. Trunk is very close to helping you get very far there.

Latest screenshot: I spent the last two weeks putting together a mini-configuration management system that works a lot more like SQL migrations; either way, now this comes up as soon as your machine boots... It starts recording metrics immediately and the dashboard is literally what you will see.

Another tool I wrote: look at the SLoC. Amused.

One thing about charon (the packaging system) that I really really hope catches on is that it's basically a cross between debconf and a kubernetes manifest; you can pepper the manifest with templated variables and ask questions. The questions are typed; numbers/strings/etc now, hosts and paths otw

Nobody is on airs about the polish in the UI; we're mostly focused on functionality, ease of use, and sober/performant API endpoints to provide that stuff. Prettifying it will come later.

Object storage is still planned and hopefully work on that will start soon; the goal right now is to get the underpinnings into a good place where running the Object storage stuff, along with other useful tools like local LLM ingestion (no anthropic or openai reading your stuff) becomes reliable.

In these photos, we install a nginx package, which asks us which port it wants to run on, then it exposes the port over the firewall so it's publicly available. There are also some other shots of the audit log, storage, and system stats.

We've rebuilt the UI to be more performant, and we also have the packaging system wired together. Also, uPnP is now available for services you want to expose to your router -- completely transparent. The UI's not pretty yet, but here are some shots of all of it working together.

Please pay attention to what we're doing for an alternative option for those computers -- turn them into completely private cloud storage and compute options for your home.

We've got a few updates right around the corner as far as progress goes. It's happening!

Charon booting packages

Update: the packaging system is mostly working along with the UI. Both cmaujean and I have been sidelined working on a paid project which we both need to complete; some time will pass before we can return to building this out, probably another month.

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Some new shots of the last 1.5 months of hard work, the packaging system for launching apps. Here, we install and check the systemd status for coturn.

Update: still working on packaging services and the integration around it. Soon, you will be able to one click your way into answering a few questions about your setup (like an install wizard) and have everything provisioned for you, from uPnP rules to volume configuration and bootstrap.

We're sorry for the lack of documentation at this phase. We're spiking for a couple of in-person demos soon; after that this situation will get resolved.

Patreon donation is available on the website: trunk-os.github.io. If you're looking to donate seriously, time is best, but money helps a lot.

We're looking at ways to authentically provide value for different tiers, feedback is welcome.

trunk-os.github.io

disk management and dashboard. some of this is out of date; the lorem ipsum is replaced with an audit log and the stats are tweaked a bit.

Audit Log and User Management

Images of the First Time Setup dialogs