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Install and configure Nextcloud
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Version information

  • 2.1.2 (latest)
  • 2.1.1
  • 2.1.0
  • 2.0.0
  • 1.0.4
  • 1.0.3
  • 1.0.2
released Apr 12th 2020
This version is compatible with:
  • Puppet Enterprise 2019.8.x, 2019.7.x, 2019.5.x, 2019.4.x, 2019.3.x, 2019.2.x, 2019.1.x, 2019.0.x, 2018.1.x
  • Puppet >= 5.5.10 < 7.0.0

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Add this module to your Puppetfile:

mod 'adullact-nextcloud', '2.1.2'
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bolt module add adullact-nextcloud
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Manually install this module globally with Puppet module tool:

puppet module install adullact-nextcloud --version 2.1.2

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adullact/nextcloud — version 2.1.2 Apr 12th 2020

nextcloud

Install and configure Nextcloud instances.

Table of Contents

  1. Description
  2. Setup - The basics of getting started with nextcloud
  3. Usage - Configuration options and additional functionality
  4. Limitations - OS compatibility, etc.
  5. Development - Guide for contributing to the module

Description

The module installs and configures Nextcloud. It can also extend Nextcloud by installing applications from Nextcloud store.

The 1.x versions of this module made it possible to install several instances of Nexcloud on a same node. But, this feature is removed for version 2.x and upper. Now, it is only possible to install one instance on a node.

Setup

What nextcloud affects

This module downloads Nextcloud and applications listed in additional_apps. Nextcloud can be extended by awesome apps. Perhaps the following list can be interesting for you : polls, calendar, unsplash, deck, tasks, contacts, forms, groupfolders, terms_of_service, spreed.

This module can install php packages provided by OS and enable caching with redis.

Some settings can be defined like the datadirectory. This path stores all uploaded files by users. It will grow up.

Setup Requirements

The cron service have to be enabled. With Puppet 6, you have to install one more dependency puppetlabs-cron_core.

Before using this module :

  • You have to know address of database server, database name with user account and password. The module will connect to the database service and populate tables to obtain a working nextcloud instance. You can use puppetlabs-mysql to build MySQL or MariaDB service.
  • You have to provide a web server. You can use puppet-nginx or puppetlabs-apache. Use value /var/nextcloud-app/nextcloud, as DocumentRoot of Nextcloud's VirtualHost directive for Apache, or as root of Nextcloud's server block for Nginx.
  • The module installs php packages provided by OS. If you prefer using PHP with FMP, you have to set manage_phplibs to false. You can then have a look to puppet-php module.

Beginning with nextcloud

To install Nextcloud on the Puppet node, with database service provided on 127.0.0.1 :

  class { 'nextcloud' :
    database_name     => 'nextcloud_example',
    database_user     => 'user_example',
    database_password => 'secret',
    system_user       => 'www-data',
    config            => {
      trusted_domains => [
        'localhost',
        'cloud.example.com',
      ],
    }
  }

Usage

During the install process one administrator account is created named admin, with password changeme.

The application is installed in /var/nextcloud-app. The data uploaded by users is, by default, in /var/nextcloud-data and can be modified by parameter $config::datadirectory. If you modify the datadirectory path on an already running Nextcloud instance, the configuration will be updated but the data will not be moved and will stay in the previous path.

All config settings handled by parameter $config makes accordingly updates into file config.php. But removing a setting from $config does not remove it from config.php (ensure => absent does not exists).

The default values of $config settings are following :

    'datadirectory'        => '/var/nextcloud-data',
    'trusted_domains'      => ['localhost', $facts['networking']['fqdn']],
    'memcache.local'       => '\OC\Memcache\Redis',
    'memcache.distributed' => '\OC\Memcache\Redis',
    'memcache.locking'     => '\OC\Memcache\Redis',
    'filelocking.enabled'  => true,
    'redis'                => {
      'host'    => '127.0.0.1',
      'port'    => 6379,
      'timeout' => '1.5',
    },

Configure an instance with mail with STARTTLS connexion on smtp server :

  class { 'nextcloud' :
    database_name     => 'nextcloud_example',
    database_user     => 'user_example',
    database_password => 'secret',
    system_user       => 'www-data',
    config            => {
      trusted_domains     => [
        'localhost',
        'cloud.example.com',
      ],
      'mail_smtpmode'     => 'smtp',
      'mail_smtphost'     => 'smtp.example.com',
      'mail_smtpport'     => 425,
      'mail_smtpsecure'   => 'tls',
      'mail_smtpauth'     => true,
      'mail_smtpauthtype' => 'LOGIN',
      'mail_smtpname'     => 'username',
      'mail_smtppassword' => 'password',
    }
  }

See more details in mail settings Nextcloud Configuration > Email

You can also have a look to custom Puppet data type Nextcloud::Config in REFERENCE.md.

Notes about upgrade from 1.x to 2.x

If you are using this module in version 1.x to configure several instances of Nextcloud on the same Puppet node, this is no longer possible with the version 2.x and higher.

To upgrade this Puppet module applied on a running node, you can :

  • disable temporary the Puppet agent with puppet agent --disable,
  • stop the web server,
  • rename the directory /var/nextcloud-<fqdn>-<version> into /var/nextcloud-app,
  • upgrade Puppet module from 1.x to 2.x (warning: default value of version has changed),
  • check that all is ready with puppet agent --test --noop,
  • re-enable the Puppet agent with puppet agent --enable.

Reference

Details in REFERENCE.md.

The module provides custom facts :

  • nextcloud: Gives status informations of Nextcloud instance.
  • nextcloud_apps: Gives informations of Nextcloud apps.

Limitations

Compatible OSes, dependencies and Puppet versions supported are given in metadata.json.

Development

You can get some guidance in CONTRIBUTING.md.

Release Notes/Contributors/Etc.

All notable changes to this module are documented in CHANGELOG.md.

This module puppet-nextcloud is maintained by ADULLACT, it was written by Fabien 'Dan33l' Combernous.