This ansible role is directly based on the official (non-working) RocketChat ansible role.
It deploys only the RocketChat server (see the RocketChat mongodb role for the mongodb part) and only works on Ubuntu 18.04.
All defaults are set in defaults/main.yml
| Name | Default Value | Description |
|---|---|---|
rocket_chat_automatic_upgrades |
true | A boolean value that determines whether or not to upgrade Rocket.Chat upon source code changes |
rocket_chat_upgrade_backup |
true | A boolean value that determines whether or not to back up the current Rocket.Chat version when upgrading |
rocket_chat_upgrade_backup_path |
"{{ rocket_chat_application_path }}" |
The path to store the back up of Rocket.Chat when rocket_chat_upgrade_backup is true |
rocket_chat_application_path |
/var/lib/rocket.chat |
The destination on the filesystem to deploy Rocket.Chat to |
rocket_chat_version |
latest |
The version of Rocket.Chat to deploy; see the Rocket.Chat releases page for available options |
rocket_chat_tarball_remote |
See defaults/main.yml |
The remote URL to fetch the Rocket.Chat tarball from (uses rocket_chat_version) |
rocket_chat_tarball_sha256sum |
See defaults/main.yml |
The SHA256 hash sum of the Rocket.Chat tarball being fetched |
rocket_chat_tarball_fetch_timeout |
100 | The time (in seconds) before the attempt to fetch the Rocket.Chat tarball fails |
rocket_chat_tarball_validate_remote_cert |
true | A boolean value that determines wether or not to validate the SSL certs for the Rocket.Chat tarball remote |
rocket_chat_service_user |
rocketchat |
The name of the user that will run the Rocket.Chat server process |
rocket_chat_service_group |
rocketchat |
The name of the primary group for the rocket_chat_service_user user |
rocket_chat_service_host |
"{{ ansible_fqdn }}" |
The FQDN of the Rocket.Chat system |
rocket_chat_service_port |
3000 | The TCP port Rocket.Chat listens on |
rocket_chat_service_extra_instances |
[] |
List of TCP port numbers for additional rocketchat service instances to handle more users on one machine |
rocket_chat_node_version |
12.18.4 |
The version of NodeJS to install that n understands |
rocket_chat_node_prefix |
/usr/local/n/versions/node/{{ rocket_chat_node_version }} |
The path to the node binary directory that n installs |
rocket_chat_npm_version |
6.14.0 |
The version of NodeJS to install that n understands |
rocket_chat_npm_dist |
/usr/bin/npm |
The path to the original npm binary, before n installs any Node versions |
| Name | Default Value | Description |
|---|---|---|
rocket_chat_mongodb_user |
not used by default | Username to be used when connecting to MongoDB. If you set this, you should also define rocket_chat_mongodb_password, otherwise no user/pass is used to connect to MongoDB |
rocket_chat_mongodb_password |
not used by default | Password to be used when connecting to MongoDB. If you set this, you should also define rocket_chat_mongodb_user, otherwise no user/pass is used to connect to MongoDB |
rocket_chat_mongodb_server |
127.0.0.1 | The IP/FQDN of the MongoDB host |
rocket_chat_mongodb_port |
27017 | The TCP port to contact the MongoDB host host via |
rocket_chat_mongodb_database |
rocketchat | The MongoDB database to be used for Rocket.Chat |
rocket_chat_mongodb_use_tls |
false | Whether or not to use TLS to connect to the MongoDB DB |