Updating Nextcloud using Ansible

Please note that the following steps assume you have already installed and configured Nextcloud using Docker and docker-compose. . Here's a small example of how you can set it up https://github.com/PashaShredder/nginx-proxy-nextcloud-docker-postgresql-redis . We will use this sample setup in our example

Install Ansible

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/installation_guide/intro_installation.html After pre-installation, proceed to setup Go to folder

cd /etc/ansible/

Edit file hosts

sudo nano hosts # use any editor convenient for you (I will use nano in the future)

[nextcloud_server] # your group name
<your_server_name> # Client, Ubuntu, etc.

*Go to the folder and create a file there for our configuration. You can choose any name, but it will also need to be specified in the file * hosts and update.yml

cd /etc/ansible/group_vars

sudo nano nextcloud_server

ansible_host: <your_server_ip>
ansible_user: <server_user>
ansible_ssh_private_key_file: /path/to/.ssh/<your_ssh_key>

Check if the configuration is correct

ansible all -m ping

<your_server_name> | SUCCESS => {
    "ansible_facts": {
        "discovered_interpreter_python": "/usr/bin/python3"
    },
    "changed": false,
    "ping": "pong" # This answer tells us that everything is OK, we can continue. Otherwise check your ansible config
}

Let's go back and create our playbook

cd /etc/ansible

sudo nano update.yml

- name: Update Nextcloud
  hosts: nextcloud_server
  become: true

  tasks:
    - name: Stoping docker compose
      shell: |
        docker compose down
      args:
        chdir: /app/nextcloud

    - name: Updating Nextcloud version in docker compose
      lineinfile:
        path: /app/nextcloud/docker-compose.yml
        regexp: '^(\s+image:\s*)"nextcloud:.*"'
        line: '\g<1>"nextcloud:25.0-apache"'
        backrefs: yes

    - name: Recreate and restart Nextcloud
      command: docker compose up -d
      args:
        chdir: /app/nextcloud

    - name: Restarting Nginx
      become: true
      service:
        name: nginx
        state: restarted

Next, let's run our playbook, taking into account that docker compose is running and nextloud is configured and available for use

sudo ansible-playbook update.yml -i hosts

After the successful completion of Ansible, go to the browser (wait for some time until a full reboot) to your nextcloud and complete the installation

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Updating Nextcloud using Ansible

Install Ansible