Posts with the tag Ansible:

Free Radical Ansible supports new CSP URLs

The Free Radical Ansible
repo commit 5d91a34 now supports both pre-Mastodon 2.1 and Mastodon 2.1+ S3 media URLs in CSP headers.

Ansible makes Docker faster; fixes certbot renew error

The Free Radical Ansible repo commit 76a0107 fixes two problems:

  • Docker uses aufs instead of overlayfs because overlayfs is ridiculously slow during an important container startup step
  • Sets the root directory for HTTP connections so that certbot renew cron jobs complete successfully

Why I've automated deployments

Free Radical is running on a Digital Ocean VPS. Instead of deploying it manually, I turned the process into a couple of Ansible playbooks1 that do the right things quickly and repeatably.

I describe what it does in the README, but that’s just a feature checklist. So why would I go through the effort? There are several reasons: