Co-op Cloud is a software stack that aims to make hosting libre software applications simple for small service providers such as tech co-operatives who are looking to standardise around an open, transparent and scalable infrastructure. It uses the latest container technologies and configurations are shared into the commons for the benefit of all.
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Hi Alan, thanks for the super interesting hint!
Do you know how this compares to the similar (?) French initiative YunoHost? https://yunohost.org/ (I’m a YunoHost user myself since I few months and I appreciate it.)
Hello and welcome to OEG Connect, Lambert. I have to admit only cursory experience with just reading about the Co-op cloud link! My knowledge of server admin is very thin.
I think it would be mmore aligned with whatever YunoHost uses to provide their services which at another glacnce looks like a great service. What types of systems are you hosting there?
I’m using it mostly for internal knowledge management things, e.g. for Wallabag as my “read it later” app of choice. But also for a few external things, like for a very minimalist CMS which fits the bill for my small personal website: https://biblionik.org/
Some very nice features:
you can run your own user management in the background, many apps can be accessed by your users via SSO
management of domains and subdomains, each with their certificates, is integrated
you can easily automate the updating of web apps
the app catalog covers many FOSS classics like WordPress, MediaWiki and NextCloud
Fediverse services, like WriteFreely, PeerTube and Mastodon,
but also what I consider serious special research apps, like ArchiveBox, LimeSurvey and GitLab.
Okay, for sure, not everything works right out of the box. But imagine yourself working in the IT department of, let’s say, a small university. Running a unified environment allowing you to meet the demands of many individual research groups - this is really something. Even if you will probably still need to maintain the large scale, more serious systems separately.