I recently installed the News app on my Nextcloud instance. This turned out to be a bit tricky, since my Nextcloud installation runs on rootless Docker. However, here are the steps I went through. I found a command that successfully calls the cron.php script, when executed on the host system in the context of the (non-root) docker user: $ docker exec -u www-data nextcloud-app php -f /var/www/html/cron.php You can verify that the background jobs have been executed, by checking the green patch and the time of last run next to the Background Jobs heading of the following URL: Read more

Here I’m describing the process, how this blog is built and deployed using Hugo, Docker and GitLab CI. In essence, every time I push code (or in my case content for my Hugo blog) to a GitLab repository, the GitLab CI runner will create a Docker container and provide it in it’s own private Docker registry. Watchdog will notice the change and pull the image. Read more