tanshu 05452127ec Cut the Nextcloud role back to what it actually needs
The role had grown machinery that the problem does not require. Removed:

- The init-sync lock pre-create. It guarded against one file in the webroot being
  owned by a subuid, which is cosmetic: the file is 0644, so it is readable and
  removable by host-side tools either way.
- The image ID read/pull pair. No other service playbook pulls an image, and the
  update path is two commands the readme now spells out.
- redis-session.ini.j2 and its three variables. The mount is load-bearing -- the
  entrypoint cannot write into the image's conf.d and dies trying -- but the
  template is not: the entrypoint writes that file itself on every start. One
  touched empty file and one Volume line replace the template and the variables.
- The config.php stat, the wizard note, the maintenance-mode wait, the occ status
  report, the getent checks, the timer report. The installed/not-installed
  branching existed only because the readiness gates were written for an installed
  instance; with a gate that fits both, none of the branching is needed.
- Comments that narrated this play's earlier runs rather than the system.

What is left is four tasks before the start, a start-plus-gate block whose rescue
collects the journal, and four tasks for the background-job timer: 149 lines and
about 130 of them code, against 313 before. The readme loses its migration-era
bulk for the same reason and is 297 lines, in line with the other services'.

The one gate is now Nextcloud's own status.php inside the container. It answers
only once the entrypoint has finished -- including any `occ upgrade`, which runs
before Apache starts, so an update in progress is waited out rather than missed --
it reports `installed` either way, so a fresh webroot and an installed instance go
through the same check, and it carries `maintenance` as well, which is the one
state a probe would otherwise call healthy while every page returned 503.
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Ansible Playbooks

A collection of minimalist Ansible playbooks for automating server setups, based on DigitalOcean's Community guides.

*the Initial Server Setup should be your starting point for fresh servers.

Playbook Structure

The playbooks contained in this repository were created for educational purposes, and should serve as a base for you to create your own playbooks and roles.

Although we opt to not use roles, our playbooks follow a distinctive structure to facilitate reuse while keeping them mostly self-contained and straightforward.

For instance, this is how the lemp playbook is structured:

lemp_ubuntu1804
├── files
│   ├── info.php.j2
│   └── nginx.conf.j2
├── vars
│   └── default.yml
├── playbook.yml
└── readme.md
  • files/: directory containing templates and other files required by the playbook.
  • vars/: directory to save variable files. A default.yml var file is included by default.
  • playbook.yml: the playbook file.
  • readme.md: instructions and links related to this playbook.

Getting Started

To set up your Ansible environment, please follow our guide on How to Install and Configure Ansible on Ubuntu 18.04.

Connection Test

From your local machine or Ansible control node, run:

ansible all -m ping -u remote_user

If you're able to get a "pong" reply back from your node(s), your setup works as expected and you'll be able to run both ad-hoc commands and playbooks on your nodes, using Ansible.

Guides

The following guides cover how to use the playbooks you'll find in this repository.

Initial Server Setup

Once you have executed the initial server setup, you can choose from any of the available server setup playbooks:

Web Servers

Applications & CMSs

Containers & K8s

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