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Slavi Pantaleev ec0f936227 Try SSL renewal more frequently and reload later
It doesn't hurt to attempt renewal more frequently, as it only does
real work if it's actually necessary.

Reloading, we postpone some more, because certbot adds some random delay
(between 1 and 8 * 60 seconds) when renewing. We want to ensure
we reload at least 8 minutes later, which wasn't the case.

To make it even safer (in case future certbot versions use a longer
delay), we reload a whole hour later. We're in no rush to start using
the new certificates anyway, especially given that we attempt renewal
often.

Somewhat fixes #146 (Github Issue)
2019-04-23 17:59:02 +03:00
Slavi Pantaleev af1c9ae59d Do not force firewalld on people
In most cases, there's not really a need to touch the system
firewall, as Docker manages iptables by itself
(see https://docs.docker.com/network/iptables/).

All ports exposed by Docker containers are automatically whitelisted
in iptables and wired to the correct container.

This made installing firewalld and whitelisting ports pointless,
as far as this playbook's services are concerned.

People that wish to install firewalld (for other reasons), can do so
manually from now on.

This is inspired by and fixes #97 (Github Issue).
2019-04-03 11:37:20 +03:00
Lee Verberne d90bc20690 Use common path for systemctl in lets encrypt cron
Currently the nginx reload cron fails on Debian 9 because the path to
systemctl is /bin/systemctl rather than /usr/bin/systemctl.

CentOS 7 places systemctl in both /bin and /usr/bin, so we can just use
/bin/systemctl as the full path.
2019-03-16 20:48:58 +01:00
Slavi Pantaleev a43bcd81fe Rename some variables 2019-02-28 11:51:09 +02:00
Slavi Pantaleev 550d398e6c Remove some unnecessary slashes 2019-02-20 21:21:20 +02:00
Slavi Pantaleev 52d5e540c0 Fix ownership of generated self-signed certificates (root -> matrix) 2019-02-02 17:32:13 +02:00
Slavi Pantaleev 8681a5dc69 Add 'none' SSL certificate retrieval method 2019-02-01 16:50:25 +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 c10182e5a6 Make roles more independent of one another
With this change, the following roles are now only dependent
on the minimal `matrix-base` role:
- `matrix-corporal`
- `matrix-coturn`
- `matrix-mailer`
- `matrix-mxisd`
- `matrix-postgres`
- `matrix-riot-web`
- `matrix-synapse`

The `matrix-nginx-proxy` role still does too much and remains
dependent on the others.

Wiring up the various (now-independent) roles happens
via a glue variables file (`group_vars/matrix-servers`).
It's triggered for all hosts in the `matrix-servers` group.

According to Ansible's rules of priority, we have the following
chain of inclusion/overriding now:
- role defaults (mostly empty or good for independent usage)
- playbook glue variables (`group_vars/matrix-servers`)
- inventory host variables (`inventory/host_vars/matrix.<your-domain>`)

All roles default to enabling their main component
(e.g. `matrix_mxisd_enabled: true`, `matrix_riot_web_enabled: true`).
Reasoning: if a role is included in a playbook (especially separately,
in another playbook), it should "work" by default.

Our playbook disables some of those if they are not generally useful
(e.g. `matrix_corporal_enabled: false`).
2019-01-16 18:05:48 +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