medienhaus/

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medienhaus-ansible

This repository contains our Ansible roles and playbook for an automated installation of matrix-synapse and dependencies, our customized element-web, our medienhaus-backend, and our medienhaus-frontend.

Note: Tested and working in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS unprivileged Linux containers (LXC).

TODO: finalize and then add medienhaus-cms …

Development

Installation

• see: Install Ansible from the official Ansible docs

Configuration

• Ansible is configured via ansible.cfg
• Hosts are defined in inventories/example/inventory.yml
• Host variables are defined in inventories/example/host_vars/
• Roles are defined in roles/
• Playbooks are defined in playbooks/

Note: Make sure the private_key and vault_password files are referenced correctly and put in place.

Running the Ansible playbook

# after configuring Ansible via ansible.cfg, your host(s) via inventory.yml,
# the host variables via host_vars/your_host/*, and playbooks/medienhaus.yml

ansible-playbook playbooks/medienhaus.yml

Note: Make sure the hosts are referenced correctly in playbooks/medienhaus.yml and the inventory file.

Registering a user

• see: Registering a user from the official Matrix-Synapse docs
• if registration is enabled: https://{{ synapse_server_name }}/classroom/#/register