Nextcloud Ansible role

Installs nextcloud from nextcloud.com servers sources. This role assumes you will run nextcloud with PHP-FPM and thus installs it for you as an ansible role dependency (with the NBZ4live.php-fpm role.

Example Playbook

Basic example playbook:

- hosts: webservers
  roles:
    - role: swcc.nextcloud
      nextcloud_destination: /home/nextcloud
      nextcloud_version: 19.0.3

Role parameters

Variable	Default	Type	Description
nextcloud_version	20.0.2	string	Which nextcloud version to install
nextcloud_destination	/var/www	string	Where to install Nextcloud (will be installed in "{{ nextcloud_destination}}/nextcloud/" directory on your filesystem)
nextcloud_dir_user	www-data	string	Which unix user should own the installed directory
nextcloud_dir_group	www-data	string	Which unix group should own the installed directory
nextcloud_php_memory_limit	512M	string	Php memory_limit setting. Default recommanded by Nextcloud is 512M.
nextcloud_config	{}	dict	a dict object of key values to set in the config/config.php file of Nextcloud. Beware of the content as they need to be valid PHP values. E.g. a string should be defined in your ansible dictionnary as "'mystring'" for the value to be the litteral 'mystring' in the config.php file.
nextcloud_onlyoffice_force_flush_period	undefined	string	Hack taken from https://help.nextcloud.com/t/onlyoffice-data-loss/20586/5 to flush onlyoffice changes to disk at regular intervals. E.g. value can be 300s to flush data every 5 minutes.

Optional, backup related variables:

Variable	Default	Type	Description
nextcloud_backup	-	object	Define this object if you want to backup both the database and the data dir of your Nextcloud instance.
nextcloud_backup.destination_server	-	string	Destination backup server which will receive all files (via rsync)
nextcloud_backup.retention	7	number	Number of days of database backups to keep on the instance
nextcloud_backup.directory	nextcloud_destination + '/nextcloud/data'	string	Path of the Nextcloud data directory to backup
nextcloud_backup.pg	-	object	Connection details to the database. See below for details of the object keys.
nextcloud_backup.pg.pg_dump_binary	-	string	Path of the pg_dump binary on the server
nextcloud_backup.pg.host	localhost	string	Host of the postgresql database
nextcloud_backup.pg.port	5432	string	Port of the postgresql database
nextcloud_backup.pg.dbname	nextcloud	string	Name of the postgresql database
nextcloud_backup.pg.username	nextcloud	string	User of the postgresql database
nextcloud_backup.pg.password	-	string	Password of the postgresql database

⚠️ Please also check the php-fpm variables of the dependent php-fpm ansible role before running this current role. ⚠️

Most importantly check the php version you want to run by setting the php_fpm_version variable. Here is an example configuration of the php-fpm dependent role which should suit most needs:

php_fpm_version: 7.4

php_fpm_pool_defaults:
  pm: dynamic
  pm.max_children: 10
  pm.start_servers: 2
  pm.min_spare_servers: 1
  pm.max_spare_servers: 4
php_fpm_pools:
  - name: www
    user: www-data
    group: www-data
    listen: "/run/php/php{{ php_fpm_version }}-fpm.sock"
    listen.owner: www-data
    listen.group: www-data
    chdir: /var/www
    env:
      PATH: "/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin"
      TMPDIR: "/tmp"
      TMP: "/tmp"
      HOSTNAME: "$HOSTNAME"

Makefile for easier Ansible usage

I have written a small Makefile to make your future ansible runs easier. Don't hesitate to check it out.

Download the *.deb package from the github releases, install it and start using it with ansible-make help.

License

GPLv3