Writing a new plugin: where to start?

[TDB]

Hi!

I'm a software dev by day and a (new) FreeNAS user by night. I'm thinking about creating a plugin for Amazon Cloud Drive using their REST API. AFAIK, this integration is high on people's want lists.

I have enough years under my belt as a software dev to code my way out of Amazon's REST API in pretty much any programming language, however I am new to jails, PBI. I'm a Linux/Mac/Windows guy.

So far I have just discovered this. Moderately useful.

Looking for any information on the above subjects that will get me started with plugin development for FreeNAS.

 

[Joshua Parker Ruehlig]

here's pretty much what I know/do for freenas 9.x plugins
https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/more-plugins.14626/page-2#post-175364

but for freenas 10, plugins will be based on docker images. would be good to learn how to make those. I haven't experimented with building freebsd docker images yet, but the process looks fairly simple from what I've read.

do you have a freebsd port for what you want to do? that's where I recommend you start since it will be relevant for docker images as well.

 

[TDB]

Thanks for the info. So what's the time frame for v.10? I mean if it's around the corner, I won't waste time with PBI and just focus on the software itself in the meanwhile. You are correct about the port: I will need 1) the software 2) packaged as a port. Do we already know how the plugin in a container will communicate with freenas?

 

[Joshua Parker Ruehlig]

Thanks for the info. So what's the time frame for v.10? I mean if it's around the corner, I won't waste time with PBI and just focus on the software itself in the meanwhile. You are correct about the port: I will need 1) the software 2) packaged as a port. Do we already know how the plugin in a container will communicate with freenas?

I don't know how long, maybe ask in the FN10 part of the forum.
I don't think the communication part has been detailed yet.

 

[pirateghost]

but for freenas 10, plugins will be based on docker images. would be good to learn how to make those. I haven't experimented with building freebsd docker images yet, but the process looks fairly simple from what I've read.

It would be interesting to get Rancher (http://rancher.com/) working on FN10 as a management console for all the docker containers

 

[Sakuru]

Duplicati, HashBackup, and Rclone are a few projects that already do this.

 

[TDB]

Duplicati, HashBackup, and Rclone are a few projects that already do this.

None of them do Amazon Cloud Drive, but maybe it's a question of time before one or more of them support it. Hmm, maybe I don't need to do anything after all? :)

Correction: Rclone does support Amazon Cloud Drive after all!

 

[dantonic]

Duplicati, HashBackup, and Rclone are a few projects that already do this.

How does one go about installing Rclone in freenas? (For the purpose of syncing with Amazon Cloud Drive) Are there any step by step guides out there for linux newbs? Thank you

 

[Sakuru]

How does one go about installing Rclone in freenas? (For the purpose of syncing with Amazon Cloud Drive) Are there any step by step guides out there for linux newbs? Thank you

I don't have a guide, but it shouldn't be too hard. Create a jail, install Rclone, mount the datasets you want to back up, configure Rclone.