In this article we’re going to see how to run Nextcloud on a OPNsense.
The first question is:
Why do you do this?
Well, I haven’t used Google services for many years, except maps. I haven’t found a good alternative to Google Maps. I had a Nextcloud installed on a virtual machine hosted in Hetzner. It’s ok, it worked perfectly. But I needed more resources, more space for photos and videos, so I decided to migrate Nextcloud to my home.
I have a OPNsense router and firewall for my home. It has enough memory, so why have another device running when I can just use Nextcloud?
The next question is:
Can OPNsense run Nextcloud?
At first, I thought about using Docker, but the FreeBSD port of Docker project hasn’t been updated in 6 years.
The second idea was to try to install Nextcloud on FreeBSD using the OPNsense ports. Bad idea. Nextcloud has a lot of dependencies, it’s too complex to install and impossible to maintain.
And then I found this article https://yom.iaelu.net/2020/05/freebsd-using-docker-and-kubernetes/. Really? Can I have a virtual machine inside OPNsense and run Docker inside this virtual machine?
Perfect, welcome to Inception.
Create a Debian virtual machine
The project we’re going to use is https://github.com/churchers/vm-bhyve
# cd /usr/ports/sysutils/vm-bhyve/
# make install clean
# cd /usr/ports/sysutils/grub2-bhyve/
# make install clean
# sysrc vm_enable="YES"
# mkdir -p /srv/vm
# sysrc vm_dir="/srv/vm"
# vm init
# curl -o /srv/vm/.templates/debian.conf https://raw.githubusercontent.com/churchers/vm-bhyve/master/sample-templates/debian.conf
# vm switch create -p -a 192.168.23.0/24 bridge
# vm create -t debian -s 80G debian
Ok, at this point we need to enabled the interface created by vm-bhyve and to allow the network traffic in OPNsense.
All ready to install Debian:
# vm install debian debian-10.9.0-amd64-netinst.iso
# vm console debian
In the network configuration step, we have to select manual configuration and set a static IP.
Install Nextcloud
Perfect, we have a Debian machine with its own IP. The good thing about this method is that I can use the same Ansible playbook to install Nextcloud that I used in previous machine hosted in Hetzner:
[In the network configuration step, we have to select manual configuration and set a static IP.
Install Nextcloud
Perfect, we have a Debian machine with its own IP. The good thing about this method is that I can use the same Ansible playbook to install Nextcloud that I used in previous machine hosted in Hetzner:
https://github.com/CallePuzzle/ansible-playbook-nextcloud-debian
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