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dan@upvote.au 5 weeks agoThanks! I’ll have to see if there’s Docker containers available. Ansible is definitely doable too, but I prefer Docker. I’ll stick it on the same server I’m running Lemmy and Mastodon on :)
Zworf@beehaw.org 5 weeks ago
Actually the ansible playbook creates a bundle of docker containers so you get the best of both :)
dan@upvote.au 5 weeks ago
Ahh… Interesting!
Do you know how much RAM it needs? I have a spare VPS with 9GB RAM - is that sufficient? I could run it in a VM on my home server instead, too.
Zworf@beehaw.org 5 weeks ago
Yeah for sure. I run the server + a bunch of bridges (whatsapp, signal, telegram) on an old atom NUC with 8GB RAM and it only actually uses 2 GB.
Here’s the documentation for the playbook: github.com/…/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy
I can really recommend it.
dan@upvote.au 5 weeks ago
Just tried out that playbook to set up a staging server, and it works pretty well.
I feel like it’s a bit too magical though. I like knowing how all the software I’m using is installed and configured, and introducing another layer of abstraction makes that harder. I have particular ways things like my web server (Nginx), database servers, Let’s Encrypt (certbot), etc are configured and want to keep things that way. I think I’ll just use the Ansible playbook for the staging server, and set up the real server using the Docker containers directly, based on documentation from the upstream projects (Synapse, etc)