matrix-synapse

Install a matrix synapse server.

Requirements

The following should be present on the target system

Name	Type	Description
matrix_server_name	string
matrix_synapse_tls_cert	string	server's TLS certificate chain (when matrix_synapse_extra_config.no_tls is set to true)
matrix_synapse_tls_key	string	server's TLS key (when matrix_synapse_extra_config.no_tls is set to true)
matrix_synapse_report_stats	bool	Report the stats to matrix.org
matrix_synapse_pg_host	string	postgresql server
matrix_synapse_pg_user	string	postgresql user
matrix_synapse_pg_pass	string	postgresql user's password
matrix_synapse_pg_db	string	postgresql database

Name	Value	Description
matrix_synapse_base_path	"/opt/synapse"
matrix_synapse_secrets_path	"{{ matrix_synapse_base_path }}/secrets"
matrix_synapse_extra_config	None	configuration parameters as given in the synapse configuration file
matrix_synapse_dh_path	"{{ matrix_synapse_base_path }}/tls/{{ matrix_server_name }}.dh"
matrix_synapse_public_baseurl	"https://{{ matrix_server_name }}"
matrix_synapse_signing_key_path	"{{ matrix_synapse_base_path }}/ssl/{{ matrix_server_name }}.signing.key"
matrix_synapse_version	"v1.28.0"
matrix_synapse_unstable	false	when true, release candidate versions are deployed too
matrix_synapse_log_days_keep	14
matrix_synapse_deployment_method	pip	Either pip or docker ¹
matrix_synapse_supervision_method	systemd	Either systemd, runit or docker ¹
matrix_synapse_python_version	3	Default python version (2, 3) to be used
matrix_synapse_redis_enabled	false	If synapse should connect to redis (needed for workers)
matrix_synapse_redis_host	None	host on which redis is running
matrix_synapse_redis_port	6379	port on which redis is running
matrix_synapse_redis_pass	None	password to use to authentificate to redis

Name	Value	Description
matrix_synapse_workers_enabled	`false`	Enables workers and starts the replication listener
matrix_synapse_workers_client	`0`	Amount of workers to deploy which serve the client API
matrix_synapse_workers_federation_in	`0`	Amount of federation workers to deploy (inbound)
matrix_synapse_workers_federation_out	`0`	Amount of federation sender workers to deploy (outbound)
matrix_synapse_workers_media	`0`	Amount of media-repo workers to deploy
matrix_synapse_worker_push	`false`	Enables a worker for pushes to sygnal/emal
matrix_synapse_worker_appservice	`false`	Enables a worker to handle synapse->appservice traffic
matrix_synapse_worker_user_search	`false`	Enable a worker to handle user_directory search
matrix_synapse_worker_replication_port	`9003`	Synapse replication port to use
matrix_synapse_worker_metrics_enabled	`false`	Enable metrics endpoint on each worker
matrix_synapse_worker_metrics_port	`9101`	Port on which metrics on each container can be reached

¹: Docker must be used for both or neither deployment and supervision

None.

#TODO: Add example

Apache 2.0