[tech] The gory details about social.ucc.au - was Re: [ucc] UCC has joined the fediverse and now has a Mastodon server ...

[Mark Tearle]

Hi folks

Further to this, here's the tech details of this.

It's a VM that's been provisioned by the UCC ansible SOE - playbook at:
https://gitlab.ucc.asn.au/ucc-systems/ucc-ansible-soe/-/blob/master/mastodon.yml

(would need some minor tweaks before reprovisioning - so ping me if this needs to happen in future)

This provisions a VM named mormyrinae
There's the usual bunch of glue to get HTTPS traffic to the host; and also redirect the webfingers from synonyms for the UCC domains.

It uses the https://docs.linuxserver.io/images/docker-mastodon/ docker image for mastodon, with (currently) a local Postgres 13 database on mormyrinae [1]

It is backed up to:
services.ucc.asn.au:/space/services/mastodon/socialuccau

There are some "reserved" accounts for ucc, wheel, and committee which are still to be set up.

Ping me with any questions.

Cheers,
Mark
[1] We need to set up a more recent postgres DB server
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Mark Tearle <mtearle at ucc.asn.au>

On Mon, 11 Nov 2024, at 9:52 PM, Mark Tearle wrote:
> Hi folks
> 
> After a long incubation, UCC has joined the fediverse and now has a Mastodon server.
> 
> It's available at https://social.ucc.au/
> 
> Members with UCC accounts can login with their UCC username (email may work too) and their password at:
> https://social.ucc.au/auth/sign_in
> 
> After signing up, you'll have a handle in the  form @youruccusername at ucc.au
> 
> Mine is @mtearle at ucc.au
> 
> Ping me if you've got any questions.
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Mark
> PS. If someone wishes to help with the theming, let me know and I can assist with access.
> --
> --
> Mark Tearle <mtearle at ucc.asn.au>
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