@serve.zone/appstore

This repository is the curated App Store index consumed by serve.zone runtimes. It publishes @serve.zone/appstore, a small TypeScript client that parses and resolves App Store metadata, linked servezone.appstore.json manifests, and Docker digest-tracked image sources.

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Install

pnpm add @serve.zone/appstore

The client speaks the @serve.zone/interfaces 32 App Store contracts. The storage feature IDs, delivery formats, and index and manifest shapes documented below are the 32 spellings; nothing older is accepted under a second name.

What Is In This Repo

File or directory	Purpose
appstore.json	Top-level App Store index with app IDs, display names, descriptions, categories, icons, latest versions, and tags.
apps/<app>/app.json	App-specific metadata, maintained version list, and optional links.
apps/<app>/versions/<version>/config.json	Deployable version definition: image, internal port, environment variables, platform requirements, and compatibility metadata.
ts_client/	Published @serve.zone/appstore parser and resolver client.
source.type=repoManifest	Optional link to a servezone.appstore.json file owned by the upstream app repo.

Changes are reviewed by reading the JSON data, running the client tests, and testing affected templates in Onebox or Cloudly.

Current App Store

The App Store currently lists 21 app templates.

App ID	Name	App Store category	Image	Port
adminer	Adminer	Dev Tools	adminer:latest	8080
cloudly	Cloudly	Dev Tools	code.foss.global/serve.zone/cloudly@sha256:056553fec412094701764197574b45096cc5c0c81e863d7ee873f4cf10ab45f6	3000
ghost	Ghost	CMS	ghost:latest	2368
gitea	Gitea	Dev Tools	gitea/gitea:latest	3000
gitops	GitOps	Dev Tools	code.foss.global/serve.zone/gitops:2.13.0	3000
grafana	Grafana	Monitoring	grafana/grafana:latest	3000
mariadb	MariaDB	Database	mariadb:latest	3306
mattermost	Mattermost	Communication	mattermost/mattermost-team-edition:latest	8065
n8n	N8N	Automation	n8nio/n8n:latest	5678
nextcloud	Nextcloud	Storage	nextcloud:latest	80
nginx	Nginx	Web Server	nginx:alpine	80
openbao	OpenBao	Security	openbao/openbao:2.6.0	8200
plausible	Plausible Analytics	Analytics	plausible/analytics:latest	8000
portainer	Portainer	Dev Tools	portainer/portainer-ce:latest	9000
postgres	PostgreSQL	Database	postgres:16-alpine	5432
valkey	Valkey	Database	valkey/valkey:9.1.0-alpine	6379
rustdesk-server	RustDesk Server	Remote Access	rustdesk/rustdesk-server-s6:latest	21116
siprouter	SIP Router	Communication	code.foss.global/serve.zone/siprouter:1.28.0	3060
uptime-kuma	Uptime Kuma	Monitoring	louislam/uptime-kuma:latest	3001
vaultwarden	Vaultwarden	Security	vaultwarden/server:latest	80
wordpress	WordPress	CMS	wordpress:latest	80

Platform Requirements

Some templates ask Onebox to provision local platform services and inject connection variables into the workload.

platformRequirements accepts the optional booleans mongodb, s3, clickhouse, valkey, mariadb, and mail. Unknown keys and non-boolean values fail validation.

mail: true requests a platform mail binding. Onebox provisions a CoreMail binding for the app and injects MAIL_COREMAIL_URL, MAIL_COREMAIL_BINDING_ID, MAIL_COREMAIL_CREDENTIAL_ID, MAIL_COREMAIL_CREDENTIAL_VERSION, MAIL_COREMAIL_CREDENTIAL_SECRET, MAIL_FROM, SMTP_HOST, SMTP_PORT, SMTP_TLS_MODE, SMTP_USERNAME, and SMTP_PASSWORD. Those identities are platform-owned, so a template must not declare them itself.

App ID	Requirements	Notes
cloudly	MongoDB, S3	Version 1.1.10 pins Cloudly 26.0.1 and requires Onebox 8.3.3. It adds human and node credential authority and generation-bound human API and registry sessions while preserving the 1.1.9 runtime contract, existing user and storage identities, and OIDC bindings. Existing human sessions must sign in again. Rotate existing passwords through Cloudly credential administration; updating the bootstrap environment alone does not rotate them. Both the existing Secrets v2 keyring and operator-approved WorkloadInit authority are required encrypted inputs delivered as separate root-owned 0400 files; the public environment contains only their fixed paths. Complete cutover retirement and verify a fresh restorable checkpoint before upgrading. Rollback remains full-restore-only.
ghost	MariaDB	Uses MySQL-style database__connection__* environment variables.
gitea	MariaDB	Uses Gitea database environment variables with ${MARIADB_*} placeholders.
nextcloud	MariaDB, Valkey	Uses MySQL-compatible database variables. Valkey is declared as a platform requirement.
plausible	ClickHouse	Declares ClickHouse as a platform requirement.
siprouter	MongoDB, S3	Uses SmartData state and object storage for telephony-related runtime data.
wordpress	MariaDB	Uses standard WordPress database environment variables.

Standalone templates such as nginx, adminer, valkey, portainer, mattermost, n8n, uptime-kuma, and vaultwarden currently define only image and port unless their version config adds explicit environment variables. rustdesk-server uses the official all-in-one s6 image and requires RELAY to advertise the public relay endpoint; RustDesk clients also require firewall access to TCP 21115, TCP/UDP 21116, TCP 21117, and optional web-client TCP 21118/21119.

Template Schema In Practice

Version configs use a small, pragmatic schema understood by serve.zone runtimes:

{
  "image": "container/image:tag",
  "port": 8080,
  "envVars": [
    {
      "key": "ENV_NAME",
      "value": "${PLACEHOLDER_OR_DEFAULT}",
      "description": "Shown in the App Store UI",
      "required": true
    },
    {
      "key": "APP_TOKEN",
      "description": "Generated application token",
      "required": true,
      "secret": true,
      "delivery": {
        "type": "launcher-environment",
        "variableName": "APP_TOKEN",
        "uid": 1000,
        "gid": 1000,
        "mode": 256
      },
      "generate": {
        "encoding": "hex",
        "bytes": 32
      }
    }
  ],
  "platformRequirements": {
    "mariadb": true,
    "mongodb": true,
    "s3": true,
    "valkey": true,
    "clickhouse": true,
    "mail": true
  },
  "minOneboxVersion": "1.24.2"
}

Secret declarations never contain values. Each declares exactly one file or launcher-environment delivery destination and may request bounded hex or base64url generation. Public environment keys may use the mixed-case forms required by upstream images; secret and platform-owned environment identities remain uppercase canonical keys.

platformRequirements.s3: true and volumes are legacy inputs. The resolver normalizes them deterministically for existing templates, but new templates use portable, template-local storageClasses and stable named storageRequests. Legacy platformRequirements.s3: true cannot coexist with an explicit objectStorage request. Legacy volume objects may retain name, mountPath, readOnly, and backup; source, driver, and options fail validation because they cannot be normalized portably.

Portable Storage Requests

Filesystem mounts and managed object-storage resources are different request kinds in the same portable contract. An app can request both, including more than one isolated object-storage binding:

{
  "storageClasses": {
    "databaseFast": {
      "kind": "filesystem",
      "purpose": "database",
      "required": {
        "performanceTier": "highIops",
        "durability": "persistent",
        "hardQuota": true,
        "snapshots": "native",
        "backup": true,
        "encryptedInTransit": true
      }
    },
    "backupCapacity": {
      "kind": "objectStorage",
      "purpose": "backup",
      "required": {
        "performanceTier": "capacity",
        "durability": "persistent",
        "hardQuota": true,
        "backup": true,
        "encryptedInTransit": true
      }
    }
  },
  "storageRequests": [
    {
      "id": "database-data",
      "kind": "filesystem",
      "storageClass": "databaseFast",
      "mountPath": "/var/lib/example",
      "accessMode": "ReadWriteOnce",
      "capacity": { "request": "20GiB", "limit": "40GiB" },
      "reclaimPolicy": "retain",
      "protection": {
        "backup": "required",
        "snapshots": "native",
        "consistency": "crashConsistent"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "backup-archive",
      "kind": "objectStorage",
      "storageClass": "backupCapacity",
      "accessMode": "readWrite",
      "capacity": { "request": "100GiB", "limit": "1TiB" },
      "reclaimPolicy": "retain",
      "delivery": {
        "type": "file",
        "targetPath": "/run/secrets/backup-archive.json",
        "format": "servezone-object-storage",
        "uid": 1000,
        "gid": 1000,
        "mode": 256
      },
      "protection": {
        "backup": "required",
        "versioning": "required",
        "retentionDays": 30
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "registry-capacity",
      "kind": "objectStorage",
      "storageClass": "backupCapacity",
      "accessMode": "readWrite",
      "reclaimPolicy": "retain",
      "delivery": {
        "type": "launcher-environment",
        "keys": {
          "endpoint": "REGISTRY_S3_ENDPOINT",
          "bucket": "REGISTRY_S3_BUCKET",
          "region": "REGISTRY_S3_REGION",
          "accessKeyId": "REGISTRY_S3_ACCESS_KEY_ID",
          "secretAccessKey": "REGISTRY_S3_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY"
        }
      }
    }
  ],
  "requiresFeatures": [
    "storage.bindings",
    "storage.filesystem",
    "storage.object-storage",
    "storage.object-storage.file"
  ]
}

Capacity values are positive integers followed by KiB, MiB, GiB, or TiB; the amount must stay within the safe integer range. A limit requires storageClass.required.hardQuota: true. For explicit requests, delivery environment keys and file delivery paths must be unique across the app config; provider credential values never belong in an App Store manifest.

protection is optional and states what a request needs beyond the storage itself. A filesystem request may declare backup: "required", snapshots (portable or native), and consistency (crashConsistent or applicationConsistent); an object-storage request may declare backup: "required", versioning: "required", and retentionDays (1 to 36500). A required backup or snapshots mode must also be declared by the request's storage class. Omit protection to request no protection — a declared protection must request at least one requirement, and "protection": {} is refused, because an empty object states nothing a fulfillment adapter can act on and names a request the platform storage contract rejects.

The full version config and every storage object are exact-key validated. Classes express portable policy only. Provider addresses, protocols, identities, host paths, drivers, and driver options are rejected instead of being passed through. Unknown storage.* feature IDs also fail closed. Request IDs are stable across upgrades, restores, and migrations.

Before provisioning, a runtime must advertise its supported feature IDs and call the resolver's fail-closed normalization entry point:

const normalizedStorage = resolver.normalizeStorageConfig(config, {
  supportedFeatures: capabilityAdvertisement.featureIds,
});

The package also exports the pure validateAppStoreStorageConfig() and normalizeAppStoreStorageConfig() functions, parseStorageCapacityQuantity(), and the normalized storage handoff types. Structural validation is useful for catalog ingestion; only normalization with a target's supportedFeatures is a valid pre-fulfillment gate.

The result contains canonical storageClasses, storageRequests, requestOrigins, and requiredFeatureIds. requestOrigins marks explicit, legacy-volume, and legacy-S3 requests so fulfillment adapters can preserve old delivery behavior without weakening the new contract. Legacy S3 normalization uses the servezone-platform-s3 delivery profile; adapters keep the established S3/AWS environment aliases for that profile. Those binding-provided values deterministically replace same-key legacy template environment values. Legacy inputs do not claim new feature support, while every explicit request fails before provisioning if a derived storage feature is unavailable.

Environment variable keys must start with a letter or underscore and may contain letters, numbers, and underscores. Mixed-case keys are supported because some upstream images, including Ghost and Gitea, require lowercase nested configuration segments such as database__connection__host or GITEA__database__HOST.

Linked app manifests use the same runtime schema and let the upstream app repo own its install and upgrade metadata:

{
  "app": {
    "id": "cloudly",
    "name": "Cloudly",
    "description": "Multi-node serve.zone control plane.",
    "category": "Dev Tools"
  },
  "latestVersion": "latest",
  "source": {
    "type": "dockerImage",
    "image": "code.foss.global/serve.zone/cloudly:latest",
    "tracking": "digest"
  },
  "runtime": {
    "image": "code.foss.global/serve.zone/cloudly:latest",
    "port": 3000
  }
}

When tracking is digest, Onebox resolves the Docker manifest digest and treats digest changes as App Store upgrades while keeping the image reference simple for deployment.

Neither the index nor a linked manifest states a schema version. Published documents that still carry a schemaVersion member are read unchanged — the readers ignore it — so a catalog can be republished without the member at any time.

Client Usage

import { AppStoreResolver } from '@serve.zone/appstore';

const resolver = new AppStoreResolver();
const appStore = await resolver.getAppStoreIndex();
const cloudly = await resolver.getAppMeta('cloudly');
const config = await resolver.getAppVersionConfig('cloudly', cloudly.latestVersion);

The resolver defaults to the App Store data bundled in the published @serve.zone/appstore package. Tests and explicit remote consumers can inject a custom fetch implementation and base URL. Remote operations default to a 30-second timeout, configurable with a positive-integer requestTimeoutMs.

Catalog resolution fails closed when index and app metadata IDs or latest versions disagree, when metadata latest is absent from its version list, or when an all-semver list does not select its highest semantic value. Repo manifests with multiple non-semver versions require explicit latest or channel intent; array position never determines latest.

Only include keys that are actually needed by a template. For example, nginx is currently just:

{
  "image": "nginx:alpine",
  "port": 80
}

Working With Templates

• Keep appstore.json, apps/<app>/app.json, and each version config in sync when adding or changing an app.
• Prefer package-published App Store data for runtime consumers. Use source.type=repoManifest only when the linked manifest is intentionally reachable from the runtime environment, or pre-resolve it before publishing an App Store package.
• Prefer explicit environment variable descriptions because Onebox surfaces them to users during installation.
• Use platform placeholders such as ${MARIADB_HOST}, ${MARIADB_PORT}, ${MARIADB_DATABASE}, ${MARIADB_USER}, ${MARIADB_PASSWORD}, ${MONGODB_URI}, ${S3_BUCKET}, ${S3_ACCESS_KEY}, ${S3_SECRET_KEY}, ${MAIL_FROM}, ${SMTP_HOST}, ${SMTP_PORT}, ${SMTP_USERNAME}, and ${SMTP_PASSWORD} only when the matching platform service is declared.
• Use named objectStorage requests instead of platformRequirements.s3 in new templates, with a distinct delivery destination for every binding.
• Use named filesystem requests instead of volumes in new templates. Never put provider, host-mount, protocol, identity, driver, or driver-option details in portable manifests.
• Keep template images boring and operationally safe unless there is a reason to pin a more specific upstream tag.
• Validate non-trivial templates by installing them through Onebox instead of only checking JSON syntax.

Project Map

appstore/
├── appstore.json
├── ts_client/
└── apps/
    ├── cloudly/
    │   ├── app.json
    │   └── versions/<version>/config.json
    └── ...

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