Rocket.Chat

Real-time conversations with your colleagues, other companies or customers.
Rocket.Chat does everything other platforms do, except exposing your data.

Documentation

Requirements

• Ubuntu Server 20.04
• Ansible 2.9.6

Initial settings

Define the variables on inventory.yml as per your needs

Change variables on inventory.yml

ansible_host: '<hostname>'
username: '<username>'
domain_name: '<domain-name>'

Ansible connection can be set as local or ssh

ansible_connection: '<connection>'

SSH private key file needs to be defined when using ssh connection

ansible_ssh_private_key_file: /path/to/your/ssh-key

Install ansible in your system

sudo apt -y install ansible

ansible version 2.9.6

Setup ssh config

Change ssh-key permissions

chmod 400 ~/.ssh/<ssh-key>

Configure ssh config file

touch ~/.ssh/config
chmod 600 ~/.ssh/config

SSH config file sample

Host alias
  HostName <ip-address>
  User <username>
  Port 22
  IdentityFile ~/.ssh/<ssh-key>

Usage and information

Install rocketchat on ubuntu server 20.04, add flag -K in case the user has a password

ansible-playbook -i inventory.yml rocketchat.yml

Access rocketchat localhost:3000 or hostname:3000
It may take a few seconds or minutes to load

Tags

Using tags helps to define which roles will be selected or skipped

Run only tags with tags node and rocketchat

ansible-playbook -i inventory.yml rocketchat.yml --tags "node,rocketchat"

Run all tasks except those with the tags common and mongodb

ansible-playbook -i inventory.yml rocketchat.yml --skip-tags "common,mongodb"

License

MIT license