Upgrading is fairly straightforward.
cd into the git directory and run
git pull
That will download any new files.
Run the ansible command, you can have it ask you for the password to use.
ansible-playbook -i inventory/hosts setup.yml --tags=setup-all --ask-pass --ask-become-pass
It should give you a report if anything failed.
https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy
When using the above to run a matrix server, it can be confusing how to verify and check which version of Postgres you are running. Fortunately this is really easy to check.
Run
sudo matrix-postgres-cli --version
And you should get the version of Postgres that is being used.
psql (PostgreSQL) 9.6
https://element.io/get-started
Installing the Matrix client Element is fairly straight forward on Ubuntu. You should be able to copy and paste the following commands in a terminal.
sudo wget -O /usr/share/keyrings/riot-im-archive-keyring.gpg https://packages.riot.im/debian/riot-im-archive-keyring.gpg echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/riot-im-archive-keyring.gpg] https://packages.riot.im/debian/ default main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/riot-im.list sudo apt update sudo apt install element-desktop
You can add the following in the ansible config file in “inventory/host_vars/matrix.yourdomain.com/vars.yml” to use a self signed certificate. Only recommended for testing purposes.
matrix_ssl_retrieval_method: self-signed
ansible-playbook -i inventory/hosts setup.yml --tags=setup-system-user --ask-become-pass
Looks like the above issue is that Ansible is not able to authenticate with the server. By default it looks to try and use ssh keys, but I don’t have any passwordless ssh keys set up for Ansible to use so it fails while attempting to connect. The work around it to make sure you have sshpass installed and then specify –ask-pass to the end of the command.
ansible-playbook -i inventory/hosts setup.yml --tags=setup-system-user --ask-become-pass --ask-pass
When the command runs it’ll ask you for the ssh password and then use that.
If you get the above error when you try running
ansible-playbook -i inventory/hosts setup.yml --tags=setup-system-user
Check and verify that you have [matrix_servers] in your inventory/hosts file
That file should contain the following.
[matrix_servers] matrix. ansible_host= ansible_ssh_user=root
This is part of a series of posts on backing up and restoring a backup for Matrix Synapse server. Synapse was installed using the matrix-docker-ansible deployment which while a little complicated can greatly ease management later on down the road. All the main components are in docker containers so we need to use docker to access.
As the root user run
docker exec --env-file=/matrix/postgres/env-postgres-psql matrix-postgres pg_dumpall -h matrix-postgres | gzip -c > /matrix/postgres.sql.gz
This will dump the Postgres database in /matrix/postgres.sql.gz
We can use this later to restore to a new server or keep as a backup.