What it gets right?
- Install is very smooth
- auto HTTPs for all public domains using let’s encrypt & traefik
- local domains for self hosting out of the box
- great UI for installing and managing apps
- app level backups on the UI. Really big deal since not a lot of products in this space have it out of the box including CasaOS.
What it does not get right?
- No UI for automated app backups & No Maintenance window setups for complete server backups
Observations
Once I get used to the tool, I lose the advantage of having a fresh eye. Hence documenting observations here if I find anything weird.
- Uninstall is not obvious. The expectation is to stop the app & then uninstall. Although that makes perfect sense, it would be nice to just have a button for uninstall.
tipi.localdoes not work as advertised. Not sure why too.- there was documentation here, did not stumble into it cause it said “Local SSL certs” but I read it as “documentation on enabling https://tipi.local”, not how to setup tipi.local. but anyways, the docs were fantastic and folks over at discord were super helpful. Made it work after following the docs.
- connecting between services is not intuitive.
- You just use your IP:port, it would be nice if there was a button to copy the URL from the service on the dashboard
- mounting volumes is do-able, but no UI
- nitpick, user-config does exist. But it should be done via code. UI around adding volumes would be really nice.