NS7 to NS8 - Less then satisfactory

[mrmarkuz (Markus Neuberger)]

@wahmed

I have virtual environment

Which one? Proxmox?

@wahmed

I had to double the core and memory, still it was using more resources than the fully loaded NS7 with all email domain and email boxes.

It needs more ressources because of containers but not that extreme. In this case there may be another issue if you just installed webtop and mail…
Do you use fast disks like SSD or NVME?

@wahmed

I was hoping it would work out of the box. But the sync simply did not work.

You could turn on debug log in Webtop app advanced settings to maybe get more information why it doesn’t sync.

There’s a migration tool to migrate from NS7 to NS8, see NethServer 7 migration — NS8 documentation

@wahmed

I tried to find documentation on this but nothing surfaced regarding the new architecture of NS8.

Documentation is available following the links on the main site: https://www.nethserver.org/

Info NS8: NethServer 8, application platform for Hybrid Cloud – NethServer
Dev manual: Home | NS8 dev manual
Admin manual: NethServer 8 administrator manual — NS8 documentation

@wahmed

Attemot to create a cluster also proved fruitless. The 2nd NS8 instance simply wont talk to the master node.

Do you have 2 nodes in the LAN? Working DNS is mandatory, the nodes are talking over wireguard VPN.

@wahmed

I installed 2 extra instances of mail app then fund out there are no way to uninstall them through GUI or console.

You can only have 1 working mail server per node because it needs to use the default mail ports, see Mail server — NS8 documentation

To uninstall, you need to choose the installed apps in Software Center and click on instances:

You can uninstall by clicking on the dots menu:

@wahmed

I could not look through Logs as the log page was very unstable in loading. When it did load, there was not much info.

There seems to be another issue, usually the logs page is fast enough (I use it a lot for testing apps)

You could check logs on CLI using journalctl

@wahmed

I use an external Smarthost to relay emails from email server. But the smarthost option is completely non existent and there was no way for me to add it to postfix via console.

It’s already in testing repository and should be available soon.
Mail customization is documented here: GitHub - NethServer/ns8-mail: NS8 Mail module with SMTP, IMAP, Spam/Virus filter
Here is a custom config for using a smarthost.

@wahmed

I did move away from Nethserver all together as I cannot take risk parts of Email features not working for so many email boxes. But I am still going to keep an Eye on NS8 and will have a test deployment to check regularly the maturity of NS8.

I’m sorry to read that but IMO the only way to make a system stable is to raise issues (as you did, thank you) and fix them.
The container concept really has it’s advantages but it’s a new world to learn.