This change is provoked by a few different things:
- #54 (Github Pull Request), which rightfully says that we need a
way to support ALL mxisd configuration options easily
- the upcoming mxisd 1.3.0 release, which drops support for
property-style configuration (dot-notation), forcing us to
redo the way we generate the configuration file
With this, mxisd is much more easily configurable now
and much more easily maintaneable by us in the future
(no need to introduce additional playbook variables and logic).
As suggested in #65 (Github issue), this patch switches
cronjob management from using templates to using Ansible's `cron` module.
It also moves the management of the nginx-reload cronjob to `setup_ssl_lets_encrypt.yml`,
which is a more fitting place for it (given that this cronjob is only required when
Let's Encrypt is used).
Pros:
- using a module is more Ansible-ish than templating our own files in
special directories
- more reliable: will fail early (during playbook execution) if `/usr/bin/crontab`
is not available, which is more of a guarantee that cron is working fine
(idea: we should probably install some cron package using the playbook)
Cons:
- invocation schedule is no longer configurable, unless we define individual
variables for everything or do something smart (splitting on ' ', etc.).
Likely not necessary, however.
- requires us to deprecate and clean-up after the old way of managing cronjobs,
because it's not compatible (using the same file as before means appending
additional jobs to it)
This is a simplification and a way to make it consistent with
how we do Postgres imports (see 6d89319822f4b2ecb), using
files coming from the server, not from the local machine.
If uppercase is used, certain tools (like certbot) would cause trouble.
They would retrieve a certificate for the lowercased domain name,
but we'd try to use it from an uppercase-named directory, which will
fail.
Besides certbot, we may experience other trouble too.
(it hasn't been investigated how far the breakage goes).
To fix it all, we lowercase `host_specific_hostname_identity` by default,
which takes care of the general use-case (people only setting that
and relying on us to build the other domain names - `hostname_matrix`
and `hostname_riot`).
For others, who decide to override these other variables directly
(and who may work around us and introduce uppercase there directly),
we also have the sanity-check tool warn if uppercase is detected
in any of the final domains.
Adds support for managing certificates manually and for
having the playbook generate self-signed certificates for you.
With this, Let's Encrypt usage is no longer required.
Fixes Github issue #50.
This is in line with what the recommendation is for matrix-corporal.
A value higher than 30 seconds is required to satisfy Riot
(and other clients') default long-polling behavior.
The new image is built in a much better way (2-stage build)
and is 10x smaller.
In terms of Goofys version recency, it's about the same..
Both images (and others alike) seem to not use version tags,
but rather some `:latest` (master), with ewoutp/goofys being a bit
more recent than clodproto/goofys.
Not using version tags is good (in this case),
because the last Goofys release seems to be from about a year ago
and there had been a bunch of bugfixes afterwards.
mxisd supports several identity stores. Add support to configure two of them:
* synapseSql (storing identities directly in Synapse's database)
* LDAP
This removed the need to copy `mxisd.yaml.j2` to the inventory in case one wants
to use LDAP as identity store. Note that the previous solution (copying
`mxisd.yaml.j2` was poor because of two reasons:
* The copy remains outdated in case the original is updated in future versions
of this repo.
* The role's configuration should be in one place (configured only through role
variables) instead of in multiple.
Configuring more identity stores through role variables can be supported in the
future.
Trying to:
- stay closer to naming in Synapse (autojoin -> auto_join)
- not create new variable namespaces (`matrix_homeserver_`),
when existing ones (`matrix_synapse_`) are more suitable
- allow `null` (`~`) values for `matrix_riot_web_welcome_user_id`
- render things like `auto_join_rooms` in `homeserver.yaml` more prettily
- fix breakage in `config.json` where `matrix_riot_web_roomdir_servers`
was rendered as YAML and not as JSON
- simplify code (especially in riot-web's `config.json`), which used
`if` statements that could have been omitted
- avoid changing comments in `homeserver.yaml` which are not ours,
so that we can keep closer to the configuration file generated by upstream
Pretty much all variables live in their own `matrix_<whatever>`
prefix now and are grouped closer together in the default
variables file (`roles/matrix-server/defaults/main.yml`).
