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Latest stable rocketchat12/18/2022 ![]() ![]() Once the features are deemed stable, they are merged down to master ( Github) where our official releases ( Github) reside. ![]() We work on new features on a develop branch ( Github), and many of our community members test on this branch with us. The system administrator can learn more about configuration and customization at her/his own pace later. Try it, if you like it, keep it and learn.Īll of the complexity of configuring a full-fledged production server is folded away. What this enables us to do is to deliver a 30s “instantly gratifying” experience to system admistator who’d like to give Rocket.Chat server a try – with no obligation whatsover. The server is ready to handle hundreds of users immediately, available at URL ` Consistent with the snap design philosophy, we have done substantial engineering to come up with a default set of ready-to-go configuration settings that supports the most common use cases of a simple chat server. On most modern Intel servers or VPSes, `snap install rver` takes only about 30 seconds. By paying the cost of heavy processing work up front during the build phase, snap deployment is lightning fast. The asymmetric nature of the snap delivery pipeline has definite benefits. We have a vision that once we tag a release, within seconds a build process is kicked off through the CI and published to the snap store. Our next step will be to distribute our desktop client with snaps. It enjoys the same simplicity of installation, and transactional update just like other Intel 64 bit Linux platforms. ![]() It is right here in the snap store What’s real cool is that even the formerly manually built ARM based server, for Raspberry Pi and other IoT devices, can also be part of the same snap. With Snap, we only have one bundle for all the Linux platforms supported. But also cater for the increasing number of users asking us to run a Rocket.chat server on a Raspberry Pi. The ubiquity of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, plus Ubuntu Core for IoT – means we can deliver Rocket.Chat to an incredibly large audience of server deployers globally – all via one single package. When we first saw snaps, we knew it had everything were looking for. If it can further reduce our complex build pipeline complexity, then it is a sure winner. If it can help with updating of software and expediting installation of new version – it would be a bonus. We started to look for alternatives that can ubiquitously delivery our server product to the largest possible body of end users (deployer of chat servers) and provide a non-complex, pleasant initial out-of-box experience. Getting configuration just right for a use-case adds to the already long time required to deploy the server. Currently we have over a hundred configurable settings for all sort of different use-cases. This meant that system administrators had to spend on average 3 hours deploying the rocket.chat server before they can even start to see the first login page.īeing a mature production server, the configuration surface of Rocket.Chat is also very large. Combined with the typical routine of setting up and configuring a reverse proxy and getting DNS plus SSL set up correctly. He/She would then need to configure the server via environment variables and be configured to survive restart using a service manager. To install it a system admin would need to untar the optimized app, and install its dependency on the server. ![]() Rocket.chat is an optimized nodejs application, bundled in compressed tar zip. If you’ve not heard of them, Rocket.Chat is one of the largest MIT licenced open source group chat project on GitHub with over 200 global contributors, 9,000 stars, and 40,000 community servers deployed world-wide. Your private chat server will be up and running in 2 minutes. Rocket.chat is a slack-like server that you can run on your own servers or at home… and installing it with Ubuntu core couldn’t be easier. Here’s Sing Li from Rocket.chat telling us about their journey to Ubuntu Core! Introducing Rocket.chat We got in touch with the team to hear about their story! The team at Rocket.chat has been asking “Why not add a group chat so you can chat in real-time or leave messages for one another?” With the Nextcloud box, you are already securely sharing files with your colleagues, friends, and/or family. Last week Nextcloud, Western Digital and Canonical launched the Nextcloud box, a simple box powered by a Raspberry Pi to easily build a private cloud storage service at home. ![]()
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