Multiple External Templates

[benyanke]

For the case in which I'd like to retain the default templates provided, and add some of my own as well, without forking your list, I'd love a solution where a user could provide an array of templates, instead of just the single string.

This would allow them to function like Ubuntu's PPAs, where you can install from any number of repos, and add repos for 3rd parties as well.

This way, I could retain a core set of apps, then provide a business and personal repo as well, with specific apps for each environment.

This could be implemented (at least on the frontend) with a text box replacing the input.

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[ParkyParky]

Hi,
I'm new to this and would like to add my vote for this also unless there is an alternative to this I do not know about?

Thank you
Martin

I love what you're doing!!

[PackElend]

isn't it solved by

[ThierryBegin]

isn't it solved by

absolutely not, Custom template let you define individual tempalte but does not pull a list of template. this feature is definitely needed

[gamegine]

Hi, a solution is to combine the different template repositories before sending them to Portainer
for that you can use this https://www.technorabilia.com/portainer-tools-merge-and-host-app-template-definitions/

[troyBORG]

Is this still not added?

[blackletum]

I feel like this would be such a simple QOL change, I can't believe this was requested 5.5 yrs ago and still..... nothing

[Mugane]

You mean 8 years ago...

[RayJameson]

I wrote a Python script to merge multiple JSON files with templates into one without duplicates, feel free to use it
https://github.com/RayJameson/dotfiles/tree/main/portainer

[Mugane]

Several issues:

1. What if one of the sources is corrupt? You lose access to everything, and there's no indication of why
2. What if there are duplicates? The mere name or image id being duplicate does not mean that the configuration is identical. This solution does not seem to handle this - am I missing something?
3. What if all you want to do is switch the source of the templates - not merge? This does not provide that option.
4. https://github.com/RayJameson/dotfiles/tree/main/portainer does not exist

[Mugane]

I made a tampermonkey script to save previously entered urls in a dropdown selector in the template url field. So at least now you can select from a set of frequently used urls instead of having to enter them each separately. Combining them is maybe not practical because of the different template version formatting and debug tracing issues (mentioned some of this above).

https://github.com/Mugane/tampermonkey