The companion role was tightly coupled to Synapse through shared tags, worker routing, and lifecycle ordering. Keeping them separate added coordination overhead without practical benefits, especially for parallelized execution.
This merges the role into matrix-synapse while keeping companion logic organized under dedicated reverse_proxy_companion task/template subdirectories.
Compatibility is preserved:
- matrix_synapse_reverse_proxy_companion_* variable names remain unchanged
- install/setup companion-specific tags remain available
Cross-role/global wiring is now in group_vars (matrix-synapse section), while role defaults provide sensible standalone defaults and self-wiring for Synapse-owned values.
Track config/image/systemd changes via register: directives and compute
a _restart_necessary variable for each service role, allowing the
systemd_service_manager to skip unnecessary restarts during install-* runs.
Covers 22 service roles: alertmanager-receiver, appservice-draupnir-for-all,
bridge-mautrix-wsproxy (+ syncproxy), cactus-comments, cactus-comments-client,
corporal, element-admin, ldap-registration-proxy, livekit-jwt-service, matrixto,
pantalaimon, prometheus-nginxlog-exporter, rageshake, registration, static-files,
sygnal, synapse-admin, synapse-auto-compressor, synapse-reverse-proxy-companion,
synapse-usage-exporter, and user-verification-service.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
This adds a new routing mechanism for sync workers that resolves access tokens
to usernames via Synapse's whoami endpoint, enabling true user-level sticky
routing regardless of which device or token is used.
Previously, sticky routing relied on parsing the username from native Synapse
tokens (`syt_<base64 username>_...`), which only works with native Synapse auth
and provides device-level stickiness at best. This new approach works with any
auth system (native Synapse, MAS, etc.) because Synapse handles token validation
internally.
Implementation uses nginx's auth_request module with an njs script because:
- The whoami lookup requires an async HTTP subrequest (ngx.fetch)
- js_set handlers must return synchronously and don't support async operations
- auth_request allows the async lookup to complete, then captures the result
via response headers into nginx variables
The njs script:
- Extracts access tokens from Authorization header or query parameter
- Calls Synapse's whoami endpoint to resolve token -> username
- Caches results in a shared memory zone to minimize latency
- Returns the username via a `X-User-Identifier` header
The username is then used by nginx's upstream hash directive for consistent
worker selection. This leverages nginx's built-in health checking and failover.
* Add a global config option for Docker network MTU
* Upgrade systemd_docker_base (v1.2.0-0 -> v1.3.0-0)
The new version includes `devture_systemd_docker_base_container_networks_driver_options`
due to 3cc7d12396
Related to https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy/pull/3502
* Switch from passing matrix_playbook_docker_network_mtu to respecting devture_systemd_docker_base_container_networks_driver_options
Related to:
- 3cc7d12396
- https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy/pull/3502
* Update all roles to versions that respect `devture_systemd_docker_base_container_networks_driver_options`
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Co-authored-by: Slavi Pantaleev <slavi@devture.com>
commit cf8637efac
Author: Slavi Pantaleev <slavi@devture.com>
Date: Sun Mar 24 19:14:57 2024 +0200
Make devture_systemd_docker_base_ipv6_enabled automatically reconfigure geerlingguy/ansible-role-docker
Related to https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy/pull/3218
commit dc7af3bc7d
Author: Slavi Pantaleev <slavi@devture.com>
Date: Sun Mar 24 19:10:31 2024 +0200
Replace matrix_ipv6_enabled with devture_systemd_docker_base_ipv6_enabled
Related to https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy/pull/3218
commit 07e900d6a2
Author: Slavi Pantaleev <slavi@devture.com>
Date: Sun Mar 24 19:01:51 2024 +0200
Improve matrix_ipv6_enabled comments
commit 3f03ca7f69
Author: Tilo Spannagel <development@tilosp.de>
Date: Sat Mar 9 19:27:50 2024 +0000
Add setting to enable ipv6
Slavi Pantaleev
QEDeD
Suguru Hirahara
David Mehren