May I suggest that you avoid, like the plague, using PVC's for config folders. [...] Always put your config folders on a host path if you care at all about the config.
That's good advice, one I was already aware of (learned from Tom Lawrence videos on YT), but it's not preventing this problem. I used hostpath.
Yes, I have not lost any config data and I could probably recreate all the apps and they would use old config/data. It's still some work I would like to avoid. But if no one comes up with another solution, this is the path I will take.
Speaking of jumping into the latest shiny things - I'm aware of this. As mentioned before, I recently migrated from Core to Scale. I decided to replace all of my Jails with Apps so I picked 23.10-RC.1, thinking there would be hardly any changes moving from RC to final (in case of some software RC gets promoted to final with just a name switch). That assumption seemed to be wrong.
I always wait until .2
Yep, that's the lesson. Internal testing is never enough. People don't install pre-release. And if they do there are still bugs introduced between pre-release and final. It's almost always better to delay upgrades :)
Or, of course, ditch K3S entirely. Use portainer in a VM - or some other solution.
That's an option. But if I ditched Truenas as a Apps running platform then I would most probably ditch its hypervisor as well and run Core (which is more stable) in VM using it for just plain file sharing. I still believe that Scale can get better in this regard though :)
