In the hosts file, there two sets of server groups:
[mastodon_servers][main_servers]
A set of playbooks to deploy the following services:
- Mastodon
[mastodon_servers] - Discourse
[main_servers] - Official wiki (DockuWiki)
[main_servers] - Homepage
[main_servers] - Custom Wikis (DokuWiki)
[main_servers] - Monitoring services
[main_servers]
We plan to run our services free of charge,
With AWS Free tire, we can run one t2.micro EC2 instance(30GB SSD+1GB Memory) for one year.
Because the 1GB memory is not enough to run all of our services we need to run two servers
and we switch to a new AWS Free tire plan every 6th month. With these playbooks and backup scripts
that should not be much of a hassle.
$ ansible-playbook install -r requirements.yml
Three primary playbooks:
./custom_wiki.yml: for deploying custom wikis for educational orgs../mastodon.yml: for deploying the mastodon instance./server.yml: for deploying all other services
Examples:
$ ansible-playbook mastodon.yml
$ RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rails mastodon:make_admin USERNAME=alice
As we do not have infrastructure for a dedicated backup server, I wrote a few scripts to rsync databases and media files. It sets up cron service in your local machine that does daily backups.
Note: You will want to make sure that Mastodon is not running during the backup/restore process. if still running and the database might have changes which haven’t been written to disk yet. Therefore we quickly stop the container.
https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Automated_Backup_on_Linux
On any supported machine, run the scripts individually and it will start backing up automatically.
- Mastodon
- PostgreSQL database
- User generated content (images, avatars, headers)
- Mastodon application secrets ( one time )
- Discourse
- DokuWiki
- Mastodon
- Discourse
- DokuWiki
Feel free to create issues and send PRs.
- add a desable PasswordAuthentication to the commons role
- settig u ntp