configuring-playbook.md

Configuring the Ansible playbook

To configure the playbook, you need to have done the following things:

• have a server where Matrix services will run
• configured your DNS records
• retrieved the playbook's source code to your computer

You can then follow these steps inside the playbook directory:

1. create a directory to hold your configuration (mkdir inventory/host_vars/matrix.<your-domain>)

2. copy the sample configuration file (cp examples/vars.yml inventory/host_vars/matrix.<your-domain>/vars.yml)

3. edit the configuration file (inventory/host_vars/matrix.<your-domain>/vars.yml) to your liking. You may also take a look at the various roles/ROLE_NAME_HERE/defaults/main.yml files and see if there's something you'd like to copy over and override in your vars.yml configuration file.

4. copy the sample inventory hosts file (cp examples/hosts inventory/hosts)

5. edit the inventory hosts file (inventory/hosts) to your liking

6. (optional, advanced) to run Ansible against multiple servers with different sudo credentials, you can copy the sample inventory hosts yaml file for each of your hosts: (cp examples/host.yml inventory/my_host1.yml …) and use the ansible-all-hosts.sh script in the installation step.

For a basic Matrix installation, that's all you need. For a more custom setup, see the Other configuration options below.

When you're done with all the configuration you'd like to do, continue with Installing.

Other configuration options

Additional useful services

• Setting up the Dimension Integration Manager (optional, but recommended; after installing)

• Setting up the Jitsi video-conferencing platform (optional)

• Setting up Dynamic DNS (optional)

• Enabling metrics and graphs (Prometheus, Grafana) for your Matrix server (optional)

Core service adjustments

• Configuring Synapse (optional)

• Configuring Element (optional)

• Storing Matrix media files on Amazon S3 (optional)

• Using an external PostgreSQL server (optional)

• Adjusting SSL certificate retrieval (optional, advanced)

• Serving your base domain using this playbook's nginx server (optional)

• Configure Nginx (optional, advanced)

• Using your own webserver, instead of this playbook's nginx proxy (optional, advanced)

• Adjusting TURN server configuration (optional, advanced)

Server connectivity

• Enabling Telemetry for your Matrix server (optional)

• Controlling Matrix federation (optional)

• Adjusting email-sending settings (optional)

• Setting up Hydrogen - a new lightweight matrix client with legacy and mobile browser support (optional)

• Setting up Cinny - a web client focusing primarily on simple, elegant and secure interface (optional)

Authentication and user-related

• Setting up an ma1sd Identity Server (optional)

• Setting up Synapse Admin (optional)

• Setting up matrix-registration (optional)

• Setting up the REST authentication password provider module (optional, advanced)

• Setting up the Shared Secret Auth password provider module (optional, advanced)

• Setting up the LDAP password provider module (optional, advanced)

• Setting up the ldap-registration-proxy (optional, advanced)

• Setting up Synapse Simple Antispam (optional, advanced)

• Setting up Matrix Corporal (optional, advanced)

Bridging other networks

• Setting up Mautrix Discord bridging (optional)

• Setting up Mautrix Telegram bridging (optional)

• Setting up Mautrix Whatsapp bridging (optional)

• Setting up Mautrix Facebook bridging (optional)

• Setting up Mautrix Hangouts bridging (optional)

• Setting up Mautrix Google Chat bridging (optional)

• Setting up Mautrix Instagram bridging (optional)

• Setting up Mautrix Twitter bridging (optional)

• Setting up Mautrix Signal bridging (optional)

• Setting up Appservice IRC bridging (optional)

• Setting up Appservice Discord bridging (optional)

• Setting up Appservice Slack bridging (optional)

• Setting up Appservice Webhooks bridging (optional)

• Setting up Appservice Kakaotalk bridging (optional)

• Setting up Beeper LinkedIn bridging (optional)

• Setting up matrix-hookshot - a bridge between Matrix and multiple project management services, such as GitHub, GitLab and JIRA. (optional)

• Setting up MX Puppet Skype bridging (optional) - this component has been broken for a long time, so it has been removed from the playbook. Consider Setting up Go Skype Bridge bridging

• Setting up MX Puppet Slack bridging (optional)

• Setting up MX Puppet Instagram bridging (optional)

• Setting up MX Puppet Twitter bridging (optional)

• Setting up MX Puppet Discord bridging (optional)

• Setting up MX Puppet GroupMe bridging (optional)

• Setting up MX Puppet Steam bridging (optional)

• Setting up Go Skype Bridge bridging (optional)

• Setting up Email2Matrix (optional)

• Setting up Postmoogle email bridging (optional)

• Setting up Matrix SMS bridging (optional)

• Setting up Heisenbridge bouncer-style IRC bridging (optional)

Bots

• Setting up matrix-reminder-bot - a bot to remind you about stuff (optional)

• Setting up matrix-registration-bot - a bot to create and manage registration tokens to invite users (optional)

• Setting up maubot - a plugin-based Matrix bot system (optional)

• Setting up honoroit - a helpdesk bot (optional)

• Setting up Go-NEB - an extensible multifunctional bot (optional)

• Setting up Mjolnir - a moderation tool/bot (optional)

• Setting up Buscarron - a bot you can use to send any form (HTTP POST, HTML) to a (encrypted) Matrix room (optional)

Backups

• Setting up borg backup - a full Matrix server backup solution, including the Postgres database (optional)

• Setting up postgres backup - a Postgres-database backup solution (note: does not include other files) (optional)

Other specialized services

• Setting up the Sygnal push gateway (optional)

• Setting up the ntfy push notifications server (optional)

• Setting up a Cactus Comments server - a federated comment system built on Matrix (optional)