matrixctl 0.11.0

Control, manage, provision and deploy matrix homeservers.

MatrixCtl

MatrixCtl is a simple, but feature-rich tool to remotely control, manage, provision and deploy your Matrix homeservers and users from your virtual terminal.

$ matrixctl
usage: matrixctl [-h] [--version] [-d] [-s SERVER] [-c CONFIG]
                 {adduser,adduser-jitsi,check,delroom,deluser,deluser-jitsi,deploy,get-event,get-events,maintenance,purge-history,report,reports,rooms,server-notice,start,restart,stop,update,upload,user,users,version}
                 ...

MatrixCtl is a simple, but feature-rich tool to remotely control, manage, provision and deploy Matrix homeservers.

positional arguments:
  {adduser,adduser-jitsi,check,delroom,deluser,deluser-jitsi,deploy,get-event,get-events,maintenance,purge-history,report,reports,rooms,server-notice,start,restart,stop,update,upload,user,users,version}
    adduser             Add a new matrix user
    adduser-jitsi       Add a new jitsi user
    check               Checks the deployment with ansible
    delroom             Deletes an empty room from the database
    deluser             Deletes a user
    deluser-jitsi       Deletes a jitsi user
    deploy              Provision and deploy
    get-event           get an event from the DB
    get-events          get user-events from the DB
    maintenance         Run maintenance tasks
    purge-history       Purge historic events from the DB
    report              Get an report event by report ID
    reports             Lists reported events
    rooms               List rooms
    server-notice       Send a server notice
    start               Starts all OCI containers
    restart             Restarts all OCI containers (alias for start)
    stop                Stops all OCI containers
    update              Updates the ansible repo
    upload              Upload a file.
    user                Get information about a specific user
    users               Lists users
    version             Get the version of the Synapse instance

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --version             show program's version number and exit
  -d, --debug           Enables debugging mode.
  -s SERVER, --server SERVER
                        Select the server. (default: "default")
  -c CONFIG, --config CONFIG
                        A path to an alternative config file.

Thank you for using MatrixCtl!
Check out the docs: https://matrixctl.rtfd.io
Report bugs to: https://github.com/MichaelSasser/matrixctl/issues/new/choose

Installation

MatrixCtl is written in Python. The installation is straight forward. Just run pip install matrixctl. It will be installed from the Python Package Index (PyPi).

You will find more information in the documentation.

Documentation

The documentation is waiting for you, to check out.

Configuration File

To use this tool you need to have a configuration file in "~/.config/matrixctl/config.yaml" or in "/etc/matrixctl/config.yaml".

# Define your homeservers in "servers" here.

servers:
  # Your default server. You can specify muliple servers here with arbitrary
  # Names
  default:

    ansible:
      # The absolute path to your playbook
      playbook: /path/to/ansible/playbook

    synapse:
      # The absolute path to the synapse playbook.
      # This is only used for updating the playbook.
      playbook: /path/to/synapse/playbook

    # If your matrix server is deployed, you may want to fill out the API section.
    # It enables matrixctl to run more and faster commands. You can deploy and
    # provision your Server without this section. You also can cerate a user with
    # "matrixctl adduser --ansible YourUsername" and add your privileges after
    # that.
    api:
      # Your domain should be something like "michaelsasser.org" without the
      # "matrix." in the front. MatrixCtl will add that, if needed. An IP-Address
      # is not enough.
      domain: example.com

      # The username your admin user
      username: johndoe

      # To use the API you need to have an administrator account. Enter your Token
      # here. If you use the element client you will find it your user settings
      # (click on your username on the upper left corner on your browser) in the
      # "Help & About" tab. If you scroll down click next to "Access-Token:" on
      # "<click to reveal>". It will be marked for you. Copy it in here.
      token= "MyMatrixToken"

      # In some cases, MatrixCtl does need to make many requests. To speed those
      # requests a notch, you can set a concurrent_limit which is greater than
      # one. This sets a limit to how many asynchronous workers can be spawned
      # by MatrixCtl. If you set the number to high, MatrixCtl needs more time
      # to spawn the workers, then a synchronous request would take.
      concurrent_limit: 10

    # Here you can add your SSH configuration.
    ssh:
      address: "matrix.{{ servers.default.api.domain }}"  # With Jinja2 support

      # The default port is 22. Can be omitted. Jinja2: "{{ default_ssh_port }}"
      port: 22

      # The default username is your current login name.
      user: john

    # Define your maintainance tasks
    maintenance:
      tasks:
        - compress-state  # Compress synapses state table
        - vacuum          # VACUUM the synapse database (garbage-collection)

  # Another server.
  foo:
    # ...

server: # This is a reserved name, which cannot be used.

Predefined Jinja2 placeholders (all placeholders can be overwritten):

• "{{ home }}" -- The current users home path e.g. /home/michael,
• "{{ user }}" -- The current users username e.g. michael,
• "{{ default_ssh_port }}" -- The default ssh port 22,
• "{{ default_api_concurrent_limit }}" -- The default concurrent limit 4.

Check out the documentation for more information.

Discussions & Chat

If you have any thoughts or questions, you can ask them in the discusions or in the projects matrix room #matrixctl:matrix.org.

Semantic Versioning and Branching Model

This Python package uses SemVer for its release cycle and the git-flow branching model (by Vincent Driessen).

It has two branches with infinite lifetime. The:

• develop branch is the merging branch,
• master branch gets updated on every release.

Contributing

Please check our Contributer Documentation.

License

Copyright © 2020-2001 Michael Sasser [e-mail]. Released under the GPLv3 license.