[dba-Tech] NextCloud

[Jim Lawrence]

NextCloud is celebrating two years. From my personal view it is an awesome package:

https://nextcloud.com/blog/celebrating-2-years-nextcloud/
http://bit.ly/2LvfND2

It is fairly intuitional to install your own version of Nextcloud. Two important requirements are one, a domain (acquired from any major hosting company...$5.00 to $10.00 a year) and two, site certification. For a free certifcate, go to "Let's Encrypt": https://letsencrypt.org/

For those wishing to expidite a NextCloud instance on one of your servers, there is a Docker container for easier installantion at:

https://hub.docker.com/r/indiehosters/nextcloud/

Assuming you have Docker installed the following command is all you need to run:

docker pull indiehosters/nextcloud

Aside: Check out the Docker site which will allow anyone to run Containers on virtually any platform: https://www.docker.com/

How to install Docker on most major platforms: 
https://docs.docker.com/install/

Jim