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pushytoxin d51ea25219 When validating LE certs, do not wait for a random time
While administering we will occasionally invoke this script interactively with the "non-interactive" switch still there, yet still sit at the desk waiting for 300 seconds for this timer to run out.

The systemd-timer already uses a 3h randomized delay for automatic renewals, which serves this purpose well.
2021-01-19 18:41:45 +01:00
Slavi Pantaleev e1690722f7 Replace cronjobs with systemd timers
Fixes https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy/issues/756

Related to https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy/issues/737

I feel like timers are somewhat more complicated and dirty (compared to
cronjobs), but they come with these benefits:

- log output goes to journald
- on newer systemd distros, you can see when the timer fired, when it
will fire, etc.
- we don't need to rely on cron (reducing our dependencies to just
systemd + Docker)

Cronjobs work well, but it's one more dependency that needs to be
installed. We were even asking people to install it manually
(in `docs/prerequisites.md`), which could have gone unnoticed.

Once in a while someone says "my SSL certificates didn't renew"
and it's likely because they forgot to install a cron daemon.

Switching to systemd timers means that installation is simpler
and more unified.
2021-01-14 23:35:50 +02:00
Slavi Pantaleev 75f9fde7a4 Remove some more -v usage
Continuation of 1fca917ad1.

Fixes https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy/issues/722
2020-11-25 10:49:59 +02:00
Chris van Dijk d83236ea0e Fix inconsistent whitespace 2020-04-17 00:53:26 +02:00
Hugues De Keyzer c451025134 Fix indentation in templates
Use Jinja2 lstrip_blocks option in templates to ensure consistent
indentation in generated files.
2019-05-07 21:23:35 +02:00
Slavi Pantaleev 9a251e4e46 Remove some more references to localhost
Continuation of 1f0cc92b33.

As an explanation for the problem:
when saying `localhost` on the host, it sometimes gets resolved to `::1`
and sometimes to `127.0.0.1`. On the unfortunate occassions that
it gets resolved to `::1`, the container won't be able to serve the
request, because Docker containers don't have IPv6 enabled by default.

To avoid this problem, we simply prevent any lookups from happening
and explicitly use `127.0.0.1`.
2019-02-05 11:11:28 +02:00
Slavi Pantaleev c2b1cf7f93 Fix SSL renewal script
Regression since 299a8c4c7c
2019-01-31 09:43:09 +02:00
Slavi Pantaleev 9438402f61 Drop capabilities in a few more places
Continuation of 316d653d3e
2019-01-28 11:43:32 +02:00
Slavi Pantaleev 299a8c4c7c Make (most) containers start as non-root
This makes all containers (except mautrix-telegram and
mautrix-whatsapp), start as a non-root user.

We do this, because we don't trust some of the images.
In any case, we'd rather not trust ALL images and avoid giving
`root` access at all. We can't be sure they would drop privileges
or what they might do before they do it.

Because Postfix doesn't support running as non-root,
it had to be replaced by an Exim mail server.

The matrix-nginx-proxy nginx container image is patched up
(by replacing its main configuration) so that it can work as non-root.
It seems like there's no other good image that we can use and that is up-to-date
(https://hub.docker.com/r/nginxinc/nginx-unprivileged is outdated).

Likewise for riot-web (https://hub.docker.com/r/bubuntux/riot-web/),
we patch it up ourselves when starting (replacing the main nginx
configuration).
Ideally, it would be fixed upstream so we can simplify.
2019-01-27 20:25:13 +02:00
Slavi Pantaleev 51312b8250 Split playbook into multiple roles
As suggested in #63 (Github issue), splitting the
playbook's logic into multiple roles will be beneficial for
maintainability.

This patch realizes this split. Still, some components
affect others, so the roles are not really independent of one
another. For example:
- disabling mxisd (`matrix_mxisd_enabled: false`), causes Synapse
and riot-web to reconfigure themselves with other (public)
Identity servers.

- enabling matrix-corporal (`matrix_corporal_enabled: true`) affects
how reverse-proxying (by `matrix-nginx-proxy`) is done, in order to
put matrix-corporal's gateway server in front of Synapse

We may be able to move away from such dependencies in the future,
at the expense of a more complicated manual configuration, but
it's probably not worth sacrificing the convenience we have now.

As part of this work, the way we do "start components" has been
redone now to use a loop, as suggested in #65 (Github issue).
This should make restarting faster and more reliable.
2019-01-12 18:01:10 +02:00