Update: I made it! "It works" message finally appeared in my browser invoking the Vapor based Hello World app. The full build process takes time (~15 mins) but I eventually got a runnable Docker image.
Would love to read a proper guide on how to get everything up and running as I'm currently looking into getting a DSM as well. If it has some compute power left, it'd be fun to spin up a few custom swift based tools / scripts on it.
Unfortunately Docker is still not supported on non Intel architectures. It has to be installed manually. I found a useful script Install docker on arm64 synology · GitHub
This script was mentioned in this unofficial guide Installing Docker on a Synology ARM NAS | WikiArr
However running Docker on ARM based NAS-es have some issues,
- OS upgrades remove Docker. It has to be reinstalled every time.
- Only
host
networking is supported, no idea why. So if you want to run like a Vapor app a proxy front end will be required too.
After having Docker installed I generated a Vapor hello world app and make it run using docker-compose
. Don't forget to change Swift version to swift/focal
as swift:latest
image has no aarch64
platform support yet.
Good luck!
UPDATE
It seems iptables
is not configured properly causing limited container networking. There is a script to fix this Script to fix Docker iptables on Synology NAS · GitHub