G-M0N3Y-2503

I would love the ability to set up a temporary virtual machine to test a proposed change before running it on the real deal. The specific use case that came to mind was that I wanted to migrate Immich manually, like in the topic. But firstly wanted to: understand what a clean install of Immich would look like in terms of the TrueNAS config. Do a dummy run in the VM to run into any issues there. I realise this kind of feature probably would come after subscription licensing or similar. But even if it were some sort of nuclear auto unclaimed after a period option that would work for me.

I was making plans for backing up immich elsewhere, and I noticed that in the documentation about the types of data it says that certain parts should be ready only externally. However, if I understand the new share layout (I'm still on the old config) it is sharing the read only (uploads) and read/write (external library) all the same. Are we expecting noone will go to the Photos/immich folder on the NAS and edit files they shouldn't? Or am I missing something? Seems like a recipe for trouble otherwise.

I mean it's only released in a test capacity as far as I am aware. So we only get updates when the team needs public testing. So if you've deployed like I have truenas is inevitable at this point.

I am running a handful of Apps/VMs on my system that I want to easily share with my family and allow some modifications, like starting their VM. In its simplest terms, this could be a portal with all the available apps shown and redirect to their respective port instead of having to manage URLs with different ports currently. The current dashboard would likely be good enough if additional local users could have a login. The next obvious can of worms would be user management, one login for all "supported" apps and SMB? Disallow destructive tasks?

For completeness, at least in Australia, the remote UI is very slow, which is another reason for this. I understand a remote-hosted server will always be necessary for some of the niceties of "just works" (HTTPS certificates/Servers through firewalls). But it would be good if it could hand off in some cases to a peer connection, like with WebRTC ICE.