matrix/roles/synapse/README.md

finallycoffee.matrix.synapse ansible role

Configuration

Required

The following variables need to be populated:

• synapse_domain - the domain this homeserver should be authoritative for.
• synapse_signing_key - the signing key synapse should use. Set either this or synapse_role_generate_signing_key: true.

Other

• Configure your database
• Configure your listeners
• Configure logging

Deployment methods

• docker
• podman
• virtualenv - Python virtual env supervised with systemd

Set synapse_deployment_method to one of the supported deployment methods. The current default is docker.

virtualenv deployment method

This deployment method installs a systemd service called synapse.service to control the homeserver process. The service depends on the network.target by default (see synapse_systemd_unit_after), and uses the default.target as it's WantedBy (see synapse_systemd_install_wanted_by).

To only start synapse after, for example, services for redis and postgresql are up, set synapse_systemd_unit_wants: [ "postgresql.service", "redis.service" ].